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How the U.S. is ramping up firepower in the Middle East to deter Iran from starting WWIII - with an armada of 13 warships, over 100 fighter jets, cruise missiles, spy planes and 2,000 amphibious special forces massing in the region
Daily Mail ^ | 10.18.2023 | Nick Allen

Posted on 10/18/2023 7:53:11 AM PDT by libh8er

The United States is amassing a war machine in the Middle East in a clear message to Iran to stay on the sidelines as Israel prepares to launch a ground invasion into Gaza to destroy the terror group Hamas.

Within hours of the horrific onslaught on Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7 the U.S. began moving warships, jets and special forces to the region.

Two aircraft carriers including the world's largest - the USS Gerald R. Ford - have been sent to the eastern Mediterranean, along with scores of planes that could carry out air strikes.

Many more aircraft, including F-15 and F-16 fighter jet squadrons, have been dispatched to US military bases in the region, doubling the number available in the Persian Gulf.

Flight units that were due to come home soon have been told to stay.

Around 2,000 U.S. Marines trained in special operations and amphibious landings have also been redirected from an exercise in Kuwait, and are now on board two warships somewhere off the coast of Bahrain.

The Pentagon is also preparing an additional 2,000 Army and Air Force personnel as a potential rapid response force.

It reflects concern in Washington that Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based terrorist group, or Iran itself, could escalate the crisis into a more dangerous regional conflict.

The main aim of the U.S. military ramp up is to deter Iran and its proxies from making any move.

The USS Gerald R. Ford had just completed an exercise with the Italian Navy before being ordered on its latest mission.

It has a crew of 5,000 and carries 90 warplanes - including F-18 Super Hornet jets, F-35 strike fighters and A-10 tank busters. .

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Iran; Israel; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; israel; syria; waronterror
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To: 1Old Pro

Yes, Looks like we are providing them a target rich environment.


21 posted on 10/18/2023 8:47:31 AM PDT by CPT Clay
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To: libh8er

I just hope if something breaks out, it’s environmentally friendly with a diverse fighting force lead by a trans black gay person.


22 posted on 10/18/2023 8:56:39 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: libh8er

Too bad the “USA” doesn’t have enough ammo, or fuel, since we sent it all to Ukraine.........

too


23 posted on 10/18/2023 8:57:28 AM PDT by traditional2 (lets go B*and*n)
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To: libh8er

If Biden is really doing this, it is the first thing he has ever done in his administration that made sense. Tamping down Iran is of vital national security interest to the US. Ukraine is not.


24 posted on 10/18/2023 9:12:14 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: libh8er
As the spectre of a NUCLEAR WORLD WAR III looms on the horizon,

the USA

is "led" by an incompetent President and a corrupt Federal Government,

informed by a mendacious news media that serves as a propaganda machine and praetorian guard for the corrupt establishment,

"protected" by a woke, trannie military whose mission is diversity and inclusiveness NOT national defense,

educated by a mendacious system that holds truth in contempt and teaches students to hate their own country,

dependent upon a feckless and incompetent Supreme Court

shackled by an unreliable electoral system,

and paralysed by half of its population who have allowed themselves to be brainwashed and gives its tacit approval to all of the above.

The USA--and the world--could hardly be in a more dangerous situation.

If the American People do not wake up fast, they're going to lose a lot more than just the Republic!

WAKE UP TO REALITY, AMERICA!

25 posted on 10/18/2023 9:15:56 AM PDT by Savage Beast (TRUTH is a terrifying thing to behold when trapped in a web of delusion.)
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To: SaveFerris

>>I’m guessing that the nuclear detection systems could know the difference between an earthquake and a nuclear detonation.

The recorded depths are too deep for nuclear tests.


26 posted on 10/18/2023 10:10:35 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: 1Old Pro

Create? I thought John Kerry sold them Nukes?


27 posted on 10/18/2023 10:16:22 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: 1Old Pro

Iran can now legally buy ICBM missiles from N Korea, thx UN sanctions dropped


28 posted on 10/18/2023 10:45:58 AM PDT by baclava
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To: himno hero

After 9/11 I had a couple of T-shirts made saying “Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult”


29 posted on 10/18/2023 11:16:31 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Savage Beast
WAKE UP AMERICA!

Worth saying again...

30 posted on 10/18/2023 11:19:59 AM PDT by Bobalu (The political prosecution of Donald Trump marks the official end of US democracy.)
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To: FarCenter

Thanks!


31 posted on 10/18/2023 11:26:14 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: libh8er

Joe is going to get us all killed


32 posted on 10/18/2023 12:00:41 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: marktwain

Biden is going to try and “take credit” for saving the Middle East.
Jimmy Carter II


33 posted on 10/18/2023 1:17:53 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Zathras
Biden is going to try and “take credit” for saving the Middle East.

Not sure if I'd call what is going on in the ME "saving" anything.

34 posted on 10/18/2023 1:19:40 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: libh8er

Biden is trying to do a Clinton so he can take credit for “saving us from WWIII”
Remember when suddenly we were bombing Serbia?
After the election, nothing…


35 posted on 10/18/2023 4:59:33 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: libh8er

The Iranians fear the A-10 wart hogs.

THe Allah Rippers will send the Hezbollah martyrs to their 72 Virginians by the thousands.


36 posted on 10/19/2023 4:45:45 AM PDT by Candor7 (( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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To: Candor7
[send the Hezbollah martyrs to their 72 Virgins by the thousands.]

Here's 99 Hillarys for Hamas and Hezbollah men!!












37 posted on 10/22/2023 1:34:54 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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