More U.S. Troops to the Middle East to "Defend" Israel
Bibi Netanyahu is America's Commander-in-Chief
President Biden, after saying no additional U.S. troops would be sent to the Middle East, is deploying thousands of troops along with F-15E, A-10, F-16, and F-22 fighter and attack jets to “defend” Israel as it invades Southern Lebanon.
Along with this, reports Newsweek:
On Sunday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also announced that he was temporarily extending the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and its associated squadrons in the region, emphasizing the U.S. commitment to ensuring stability in the face of growing tensions.
How many warplanes, aircraft carriers, and troops does it take to ensure “stability”? A lot, it seems.
Israel has a powerful military that possesses at least 90 nuclear weapons. Even with all the weapons provided for free by the American taxpayer, apparently it’s not enough and never will be enough.
Biden and Harris are once again sending a message of utter abject subservience to Israel. It’s rather astounding when you think about it.
Given the abject subservience of Congress to Israel, Bibi Netanyahu truly could be the President of the United States (POTUS). Indeed, effectively he is, especially with regard to U.S. policy in the Middle East.
It annoys the hell out of me when I hear people bitch and moan about foreign influence in our elections, and they bitch and moan the loudest when it's the Russians trying to influence voters. The Russians and everyone else combined don't hold a candle to the influence of the Israel lobby which, not only has much influence over the American voters, but has direct influence (if not control) over our government and our national purse. Yet no one seems to give a shit. Israel has the right to defend itself - at our expense.
I suppose no President even pretends any longer to have legal authority to dispatch and engage U.S. military forces around the world. At one time they used the unconstitutional 'war powers act'; then the 2001 AUMF and its continuing resolutions - now I guess it's because Netanyahu ordered it.
While Biden, or whoever is the puppet master, orders more troops in, or extends a carrier battle group on station - the reality of military deployments around the world is those forces are at extreme risk from the logistics chain meant to sustain them; a logistics chain that could be destroyed if those forces become engaged in combat operations.
To cite only one example - while US carriers are nuclear powered; the aircraft and all escort vessels require conventional fuels. The USNS Big Horn - a replenishment oiler - just ran aground last month (September) in Oman, with an assessment of needed repairs underway . There are only two of three other oilers anywhere in the Med or eastern Pacific that could be rushed in - then putting other carrier groups at risk. Take out the oilers and you have a a mass of floating aluminum and steel targets - and dead sailors.
When Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, and all the rest of them put their children or grandchildren on those ships, then they can cheer for more war.