⚓️ 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 And just like that, the United States gets stretched even thinner and Western forces have now been drawn into direct combat on Israel's behalf. | Armchair Warlord
🔶️ This fleet tracker is from the 11th, before the Eisenhower transited back out of the Persian Gulf and started heading for the Red Sea. You notice that with a powerful CSG-ARG task force tied up dealing with the Houthis and another carrier monitoring things off Israel, we have absolutely nothing to even threaten Iran with short of having the Carl Vinson strike group steam over from WESTPAC where it's keeping an eye on Taiwan?
🔶️ I'm sure the Chinese will be absolutely thrilled to see us blowing our limited stock of SM-2 missiles on Iranian moped-drones and our limited stock of Tomahawks on random buildings in Yemen, by the way.
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📝🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 - On the Brink: Showdown in the Middle East
Amid an escalating American buildup, it’s clear Witkoff’s list of demands is more of a request for surrender. Accepting the abolition of its nuclear program and limitations on its ballistic missile force would leave Iran powerless to defend itself in any future conflict, which is the entire point of asking for these “concessions”. This demarche is a poison pill meant to justify further action when Iran rightly refuses it or, should they be foolish enough to actually accept it, will make the job of Israel and the U.S. easier when they inevitably tear up any agreement to conduct strikes anyway. The goal here for Tel Aviv and Washington isn’t peace and anybody who thinks they actually care about protesters needs to get their head checked; they want a final showdown with Iran to remove it as an obstacle to themselves in the Middle East.
For those that don’t remember, in the lead up to the 12 Day War last year...