An interesting turn of events. Where is the French aircraft carrier just now? Is it off Syria? Looks like a Turko-Franco-Anglo force might be getting ready to pull a Libyan style revolt in Syria soon. Where is Obama and the USA? He’s on vacation? Where is Hillary Clinton? Is she in Europe working on her next war? Where is the Russian carrier just now? Where is the US carriers? This could go bad really fast—its going to take a skilled (and bloody) hand to pull this off.
NATO strikes Syria, Iran backs Syria and strikes US fleet in gulf. US counter attacks, China steps in along with North Korea and Pakistan — We have WW III. Russia might side with us this time.
The US moved a carrier group close to Syria. The Israelis are also likely to participate in a war against Syria, marking a historic first for a joint Arab-US-Israeli operation.
However, any operation against Syria may forstall US troops leaving Iraq, as the Iraqi government may ask US forces to stay a little longer to protect the northwestern Iraqi border.
“Where is the French aircraft carrier just now?”
The French carrier Charles de Gaulle (R91) arrived at its home port of Toulon, France on 28 September for a major refit. After 1300+ sorties over Libya, she needs lots of work. We won’t be seeing her for at least 3-4+ months.
We are working Syria hard behind the scenes to avoid the mistakes of Libya and get the opposition forces fully operational.
Syria has the potential for a significant regional war if we aren’t ready for a no-fly zone, which we are not. Hilary is likely staying up late on this conflict. The Arabs, through the Gulf Cooperation Council are taking the lead and are the front men for now.
The Admiral Kuznetsov hasn’t even left the Barents Sea and has many stops along the way, they won’t be anywhere near until the end of the year.
The USS Bush is in the Med, just finishing an 8 day liberty in Marseilles, they needed to fix sewer/plumbing problems also while there.
Doesn’t look like a no-fly zone until next year.