Posted on 12/31/2023 4:24:20 PM PST by hardspunned
The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group will leave the eastern Mediterranean Sea, where it was sent just after the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October, in the "coming days," two U.S. officials tell ABC News.
The Ford is the U.S. Navy's newest and largest aircraft carrier and was nearing the end of its first operational deployment when it was redirected to the eastern Mediterranean the day after Hamas terrorists launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7.
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More likely, it’s a political lever to force Israel to cease fire with Hamas. The Biden gang double deals like normal people breathe.
USA is a paper tiger.
Considering all of the issues that ship has had maybe there is a visit to the shipyard required. Either that or its the bitme crew’s miscalculations again...
2024 feels like half 1860and half 1980.
We were told wider, escalating conflict was a near certainty. By told, I mean assured by the never, ever right crowd.
Yet the oil traders have been right all along.
Beware of The Houthis!
The 72 td fav manages to lose every out-yet still reigns supreme.
I think they were due a stint in port when the ship got redeployed 10/7. I understand the Ford must leave. I guess by placing their only remaining carrier in the Gulf of Aden they’re hedging their bet, wanting to be able to quickly respond to the Persian Gulf or up the Red Sea.
this stupid withdrawl while Iran is openly threatening to widen its warfare against USA, international shipping freedom of the seas, and a half dozen or more American allies ... is just ASKING for trouble, quite possibly BIG TIME trouble
and not just in the Med or Europe or the mideast, but globally as Communist China and Iran and Russia see just how unreliable this current USA administration is
what dam*ed warmonger is to blame for this dumb retreat right when the ship is doing, we are told, a great deal of good on its assignment?
Man, don’t tell me that. Don’t they have six or eight more ordered?
It [USA] is a real tiger , as the J6ers can attest to. Should happens to be one of its enemies. A/K/A, a Conservative, a White individual, a Conservative Black individual, a Christian, a legitimate gun owner.
Might as well...Biden won’t let them do anything,
No wonder Navy and other branches can’t meet recruitment quotas.
Given “our leadership,” I guess we are lucky it wasn’t sunk.
Just come home this time.
Carrier task forces, trying to figure out what’s going on in the Red Sea and Black Sea, are similar to dinosaurs quizzically looking up at the approaching asteroid.
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