Who will Blink First in the Arabian Sea: Onward Christian Soldiers for Israel?

In recent months, tensions between Washington and Tehran have intensified amid a significant U.S. naval buildup in the Middle East, raising fears among analysts and world leaders of a possible military confrontation.

Iran will not be alone

I hope memories are not so short, that people have already forgotten the plethora of US warships that surrounded Venezuela before Maduro and his wife were kidnapped. Under international law, forcibly taking a sitting head of state from their own country without that state’s consent is considered a violation of sovereignty and can be described legally as abduction or extraterritorial kidnapping, as well as an act of war (please take note Lindsay Graham and other war hawks who think that doing the same thing to Russia would be a good idea).

The US is now doing the same with Iran. It is become only too clear that they WILL be going to war with Iran, not in response to a direct threat but as foot soldiers for Israel. However, I think that this time around the that 4 nations have agreed to a security pact: Iran, Russia, China, and Pakistan – will respond accordingly. Meanwhile, the saber-rattling is intensifying with Pakistan giving the impression, in not so many words, that if Israel nukes Tehran, Pakistan will retaliate by nuking Tel Aviv in response. In short, the US is playing with fire, and Israel, still carrying out genocide in Gaza, is crazy and deluded enough to use nukes.

The firepower is moving into place but where is the staying power, to maintain world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R Ford, which is reportedly joining the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group in the Arabian Sea, and not to mention the support ships, logistical chains, and for the US to be able to resupply so many ships during a shooting war is not on the level of being just-in-time, this is particularly the case with the Vertical Launch Systems (VLS) that are used by US Navy warships for storing and launching air defence, anti-shipping and land attack missiles. These VLS launchers cannot be........

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