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Mission Creep: Will Pier Become A Beachhead For US In Gaza?
Responsible Statecraft ^ | 3/13/24 | Kelly Beuacar Vlahos

Posted on 03/14/2024 9:27:03 AM PDT by hardspunned

The Pentagon’s plan for floating piers and a causeway to surge humanitarian aid into Gaza is drawing fire from military experts for its lack of detail, potential danger to U.S. troops, and risk of mission creep. Bottom line, it’s a bit of a head-scratcher.

“Biden is committing the United States military to conducting a highly complex, very expensive, low-production operation to bring food into the strip — when Biden could massively increase the amount of food into the strip with far less effort or expense: demand that Israel merely open the damn gates and roll the hundreds of trucks awaiting entry right now. Today,” exclaimed (Ret.) Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, senior fellow at Defense Priorities, in an exchange with RS.

“This is an absurd idea, on so many levels,” Davis added.

(Excerpt) Read more at responsiblestatecraft.org ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaza; military; pier; port
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To: 9422WMR

I see. Thanks for that info. I am going to assume that our fine USN can keep the boats afloat but yes, ocean storms can be pretty difficult. Hopefully, a storm will force them to turn back (safely) to USA.

it is so sad that Biden keeps supporting the terrorists (Iran especially but also PLO and Hamas and Lebanon/Hezballah) ... he’s a gross embarrassment to America (and very dangerous too)


21 posted on 03/14/2024 10:38:21 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: nitzy

How do you people not see that it will be used to evacuate the Gazans to the US and Europe?

I feel like I am in a movie where I’m the only one who can recognize the elephant in the room.

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Many people like a cover story.


22 posted on 03/14/2024 10:58:26 AM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: hardspunned

When we airdrop it, we can kill four or more people, each time. We’ve already done that, there.

Let’s keep airdropping it.


23 posted on 03/14/2024 11:08:12 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: hardspunned

More like a place for our soldiers to die at the hands of the barbarians.


24 posted on 03/14/2024 11:10:57 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: faithhopecharity

These boats are operated by the US Army! Not Navy craft.
Like sending tug boats across the Atlantic.


25 posted on 03/14/2024 11:27:48 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: 9422WMR

That’s very interesting. Thanks


26 posted on 03/14/2024 11:33:15 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: hardspunned

Biden’s ‘Trojan Pier’ for Gaza

Six Americans are still being held hostage by Hamas, and Biden has sent no troops to help them, but at the State of the Union address, he promised to send troops to build a pier for Gaza.

The estimated over 1,000 troops will spend as long as 2 months laboring to build a floating pier in a war zone under potential attack to help transfer aid to the Hamas supporters living in Gaza.

Nothing about this plan makes sense.

[...]

So what is the permanent pier actually for?

[...]

The Biden administration is creating a gateway to Gaza that Israel isn’t supposed to control.

The Trojan pier is not only about bypassing Israel, but also Egypt. The administration’s vision is that the new arrangement will allow it to directly move materials into Gaza without having to get permission from either Israel or Egypt. And that’s a major victory for the terrorists.

[...]


27 posted on 03/14/2024 11:36:06 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: AlaskaErik

One would think that New York would be paying attention, wouldn’t one?


28 posted on 03/14/2024 11:38:51 AM PDT by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: hardspunned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELF9DqfqXgU
Deep Intel on the American Pier Into Gaza
(Ward Carroll)


29 posted on 03/14/2024 11:39:11 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: BigFreakinToad

That’s Netanyahu’s plan. Get us there, get Americans killed, get us drawn in.


30 posted on 03/14/2024 11:45:31 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: nitzy

No, I’m saying Netanyahu connives to get US boots on the ground. Get those U.S. forces attacked and drawn in so we can do nearly all spending and most bleeding and dying for his goals.


31 posted on 03/14/2024 11:48:18 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned

Ok. That might be feasible. I think the evacuation scenario is more likely but I could see either happening.


32 posted on 03/14/2024 12:10:44 PM PDT by nitzy (I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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To: Bratch

That story was written by an Israeli citizen so you will need to take it with a grain of salt. It may or may not be the truth but you can be damn sure that it looks out for the Israeli narrative first.


33 posted on 03/14/2024 12:17:17 PM PDT by nitzy (I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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To: OKSooner
One would think that New York would be paying attention, wouldn’t one?

Joe won't have any problem carrying NY. The moslem population isn't significant enough to cause him any worries and the Jews will still vote for him even though the Democrat Party would forsake Israel in a heartbeat if it was to their advantage.

34 posted on 03/14/2024 12:45:07 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: hardspunned

Ok, Talib.


35 posted on 03/14/2024 1:22:16 PM PDT by cowboyusa (AT THIS POINT, I'M WARMING TO AN AMERICAN PINOCHETE. )
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To: nitzy

Nic4 to know you stand with Schumer.


36 posted on 03/14/2024 1:22:58 PM PDT by cowboyusa (AT THIS POINT, I'M WARMING TO AN AMERICAN PINOCHETE. )
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To: cowboyusa

Do you like puppies?

Hitler liked puppies. That makes sense that you would too.


37 posted on 03/14/2024 1:34:46 PM PDT by nitzy (I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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To: nitzy

You stand against the GOD of Israel.


38 posted on 03/14/2024 1:44:38 PM PDT by cowboyusa (AT THIS POINT, I'M WARMING TO AN AMERICAN PINOCHETE. )
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To: cowboyusa

The question is….”What is Israel?”

I could name my dog Israel. There are “Black Israelites”. So Israel isn’t simply a name.
The people of Gaza have identical DNA to 1st century Jews. So Israel is not a genealogy.
The Islamists believe in an Abrahamic religion so Israel is not a branch of an ancient tradition.
The Talmudic Jews believe in a diametrically opposite religion than the Messianic Jews. So Israel is not a belief system or a religion.

What is it?

The people who occupy and rule over the Levant are not “Israelites”. They are “Zionists”. They called their homeland “Palestine” when they started their invasion in the 1890’s. It wasn’t until 1947 that they decided to call it “Israel” as a PR move to get Christians to go along with their invasion.


39 posted on 03/14/2024 1:58:17 PM PDT by nitzy (I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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To: nitzy

Yes, I know you are steeped in Replacement Theology.


40 posted on 03/14/2024 2:04:38 PM PDT by cowboyusa (AT THIS POINT, I'M WARMING TO AN AMERICAN PINOCHETE. )
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