US to send 2nd aircraft carrier to eastern Mediterranean
US to send 2nd aircraft carrier to eastern Mediterranean
Exclusive: US to send 2nd aircraft carrier to eastern Mediterranean
The Pentagon has ordered a second aircraft carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean near Israel to deter Iran or Hezbollah from joining the Israel-Hamas conflict, according to U.S. officials.
A senior US official and a US official told ABC News that the USS Eisenhower carrier strike group will be ordered to the eastern Mediterranean to join the USS Gerald R Ford carrier strike group that arrived there earlier this week and is in international waters off of Israel.
"I have directed the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (CSG) to begin moving to the Eastern Mediterranean," said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a statement confirming the deployment. "As part of our effort to deter hostile actions against Israel or any efforts toward widening this war following Hamas's attack on Israel."
That seems like overkill, but I'm no military strategist. Why would the US need 2 carrier groups even if directly fighting Iran and Hezbollah at the same time?
They're there to pre-answer the questions "how quickly and how forcefully would the USA get involved if we did a thing? Are they too focused on Ukraine? Do they have any appetite for a new middle East conflict?"
Instantaneously. Overwhelmingly. No. Yes.
It's better for everyone that these answers are readily available and explicitly clear so that nobody miscalculates. Deterrence is much cheaper than a real follow-through.
Well we don’t have anything better to do with them 🤷
It's just a show of force so that Iran really thinks twice about doing anything, we both have nukes but only the US has the power to exert force overseas via traditional platforms & weapons.
It's basically "if you want to join in it's going to cost you everything, and your only option is nuclear weapons which we can match and more."
It's the best case scenario to keep Iran out of the picture because they're just crazy enough to consider nuking Israel over this and if that happens it'll likely set off a chain reaction.
Why is it that never happened during 2004? Israel attacked Gaza many times before, never did the US send this much military. Do the Americans know the amount of damage Iran can inflict on Israel and that's why they are sending all this? What can Iran do? If not Iran, who?
I was under the impression that Iran did not have the ability to use nuclear weapons though. Perhaps, the 2nd carrier group is to prevent Israel from using them
I thought Israel was the most powerful army in the middle east, what gives? Something is cooking, way bigger than killing Palestinians.
They were bored and wanted in