Business Insider: The US is doubling down on its show of force to Iran with even more weapons
* The US military is deploying additional assets to the Middle East to deter a possible Iranian attack, the Pentagon announced on Friday.
* The USS Arlington, an amphibious transport-landing dock used to move troops for expeditionary operations, and a Patriot surface-to-air missile battery are on their way to the US Central Command area of responsibility.
* These assets will join the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and the B-52 bomber task force deployed to this region earlier in the week.
The US is sending even more firepower to the Middle East in response to unspecified threats from Iran, the Pentagon announced on Friday.
The USS Arlington, a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock used to move Marines, amphibious assault vehicles, conventional landing craft, and rotary aircraft, and a Patriot surface-to-air missile battery capable of eliminating certain types of incoming missiles and aircraft are on their way to the US Central Command area of responsibility.
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B-52s, Marine expeditionary unit head to Middle East as tensions rise with Iran -- UPI
US Sends Another Warship, Patriot Missiles To Add Teeth To Force Against Iran -- IBTimes
Fully Armed F-15Cs Have Arrived In The Middle East Amid Accusations Of Iranian Threats (Updated) -- Warzone/The Drive
US sends second warship and Patriot battery to the region to counter Iran -- The National
22 comments:
Routine deployments act as nice diversion from the epic failure in Venezuela.
America flails and fails and the world shrugs. But, yeah, regime change will happen any day now! THIS IS YOUR TIME CHUDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"unspecified threats... " They got aluminum tubes, some yellow cake and curveball. Enough to scare a CHUD. Let's git to bombin'!
Well, show of force doesn't mean war. Just a point.
Declare war already
Apart from the CSG there is nothing routine about it.
I doubt Iran is planning an attack, but we are taking every move they make seriously. The continual call to be on high alert and moving forces from theater to theater. wears one down and exhausts resources. Maybe that’s iran’s plan.
The Fox news vid showed an LCC. Iran loves to harass those, since they are a high value lightly defended target. If a flashpoint flashes over it might be one place where it will. They have not change their stripes.
Iran has a lot of discontent with the graft, corruption, and inept governance by the religious moolahs.
"The protests quickly spread to more than 70 towns and cities, attracting a broader swathe of malcontents, mostly young (see article). Over 20 people have been killed; hundreds more have been arrested. " - The Economist
epic failure in Venezuela?
"Venezuela’s exports plummeted by 40 percent in February, after a month earlier the U.S. imposed the toughest sanctions yet on Caracas, targeting specifically PDVSA. Since then, however, they have stabilized around 1 million bpd. Stockpiles, meanwhile, have declined by 3.8 million barrels as PDVSA’s production continues to fall. To date, Venezuela’s crude oil inventories stand at around 32 million barrels, according to Kpler data."
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Venezuela-Keeps-Oil-Exports-Stable-In-April.html
Venezuela is keeping up exports with inventory. When inventory runs out, the chemical feedstock they need to pump oil will be greatly reduced. It will make it harder to pump new oil.
The oil being pumped is strictly to service debt for years and years (If it ever gets done.). It does not pay wages or put food on the table.
Venezuela is no longer able to float Cuba. You would think that the chudster, who says chud in all CAPS, would have noticed the rationing.
Venezuela and Cuba are going down and so is Chusdsters paycheck. :)
Graph of Venezuelan oil exports.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2018/06/08/venezuelas-oil-exports-are-headed-toward-zero/#d99a3176876d
Con El Maximo de Grasa, Venezuelan oil production will plummet to zero. But Maduro will eat well until the last.
ZERO HOUR is around XMAS 2019.
Strikes by Iranian Truckers
https://ir.voanews.com/a/iran-truck-drivers-protest-strick/4591698.html
Trucking is where the rubber meets the road.
https://knowyourphrase.com/when-the-rubber-hits-the-road
The truckers have to make ends meet. It gets real down at the bottom and they work hard. Meanwhile the moolahs are behind high walls with the harems.
You can get a starter kit harem of 4 women. If you set yourself up as an authoritarian figure, you make 10 to 100 times more than the average chap, so you can have your four or have your 2 steadies and rotate your other two 'wives' to refresh stock with younger models every few years.
After you play musical chairs with your starter kit harems, there are guys left with no chairs/women. So they go crazy after a few decades and start eyeballing one another.
So you cut their heads off for crossing the line, but you made many of them cross the line. It is a self perpetuating system. After you cut the heads off you can tell you fresh stock ...err women that there are no other guys out there. That there is a dearth of guys. No alpha male primate could have ever designed a better system for being large and in charge.
Moolahs are just like pigs in slop with the harem system.
Venezuela Crude Oil Production
https://tradingeconomics.com/venezuela/crude-oil-production
Ouch! That will leave a mark!
Monroe Doctrine does not call for all pout bloody frontals assaults or declaration of war.
Anon 9:51 if that is what you are waiting for, I can see why you are all frustrated and confusticated. You better take care of that or there are padded rooms in your future.
There was no declaration of war in 1895.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_crisis_of_1895
Why should there be now? We just have to wait until inventories and monetary reserves deplete. China is taking oil to pay for debt. they are not helping the Venezuelan economy. They are doing the opposite. They are squeezing blood from a turnip.
Russia and China are not helping Venezuela by giving them money. They are helping the regime by sending them jackboots, Gestapo and thugs.
That is they sent a few thousand to 10,000 men to control the population with force, a population that is barely being fed and sometime not even that.
So (:41 you were say or were you flatulating or is it the same thing with you?
Uh ohs!
\500% inflation with no oil production!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Venezuela_historic_inflation_vs._oil_revenue.png
Oh my!
around 1998 Venezuela was producing 3.5 million barrels per day.
Now it is 1 million or less.
Hugo Chavez was a genius, just sheer genius.
Hugo Chavez and his successor, La Grasa, only shrank output by 71 to 72 %
Man, oh man are those super smart.
Only socialist/fascists could be so smart!
Russia wins out in Venezuela, like it or not...Trump gets on phone: yessah Mistuah P...whatever you say
1042
Sky is falling on the Venezuelan economy. Putin cannot hold up the Heavens
PS: Fruitloops, tell me how Putin is communicating with Trump without the CIA and NSA knowing.
did they listen to trump in his call to Putin? his private meeting with Putin?
you do not need a phone call to know how to kneel
His private meeting with Putin had an interpreter.
If she saw Trump kneeling, do not you think she would have reported it?
The military has been getting stronger under Trump than under Obama, so fart away with your throw away 2 liners.
anon
No notes retained. No report of what was seen. All was secret. But you know, right?
Well you seem to know are quite certain about it. What was said?
No notes retained but if the interpreter was concerned, she would have gone to the authorities. So you have what? Let me answer for you,because most of us want a a truthful answer. "Nothing!"
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