Brad Dress, "Pentagon sending additional troops to Middle East as tensions escalate"
The U.S. is sending a “small number” of ground troops to the Middle East as a larger war between Israel and Hezbollah threatens to break out, the Pentagon announced Monday.
Defense Department press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters the new detachment was being sent “in light of increased tension in the Middle East and out of an abundance of caution.”
“We are sending a small number of additional U.S. military personnel to augment our forces that are already in the region,” Ryder said, declining to offer specifics about the new contingent, though he referred to them as ground troops.
The U.S. already has an array of forces positioned in the Middle East, including the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group and the ballistic missile submarine USS Georgia, along with an additional squadron of F-22 fighter jets. In the eastern Mediterranean Sea, there are six U.S. warships, including the USS Wasp amphibious assault ship.
Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah are teetering toward full-scale war amid a deadly exchange of fire across the border in the past week.
Israeli forces targeted some 300 Hezbollah sites and killed at least 245 people in Lebanon on Monday, according to Lebanese health authorities, as well as wounding around 1,000 more, marking one of the deadliest days of fighting in the country in recent history.
Ahead of the strikes, Israeli officials had warned Lebanese civilians living near Hezbollah sites to evacuate.
Hezbollah fired some 130 rockets at the Israeli city of Haifa on Monday, claiming to have struck or targeted Israeli military warehouses and defense contractor sites.
The Israeli military said Monday that more than 1 million civilians were heading to bomb shelters in Haifa.
The escalation comes after intense Israeli strikes last week that killed top Hezbollah commanders in Lebanon.
Israel is also accused of detonating pager and handheld radio devices in Lebanon last week, killing at least 37 people and wounding thousands.
Israel has shifted its strategy toward the north as the Gaza war against Palestinian militant group Hamas has quieted in recent months, making it a war objective last week to return its some 60,000 displaced residents to the border with Lebanon.
Israel Katz, the Israeli foreign minister, said Monday that his country “will not stop until the threat is removed from Israel’s citizens and the residents of the north return safely to their homes.”
“We will not accept this reality and will act with full force to change it,” he wrote on the social platform X.
The U.S. has pushed for a diplomatic solution to the 11-month conflict but has struggled to de-escalate tensions and reach a cease-fire and hostage release deal in the Gaza war that the Israel and Hezbollah fight is tied to.
Ryder said Monday that tensions in the Middle East remain high, pushing for a diplomatic deal to resolve the crisis.
“It has escalated this week, clearly, and that’s concerning,” he said. “There’s the potential for these tit-for-tat operations between Israel and [Hezbollah] to escalate and to potentially spiral out of control into a wider regional war.”
Apparently State Media has no curiosity at all as to who's in charge of the nuclear football, either...
American confidence in a free and independent media couldn't get higher!
In Deep State Bureaucracy We Trust!
In who's reality is this the actual leader of the Free World?
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Glenn Greenturd: "everyone knows..."
BS. Everyone does not "know" Glenn's rightturd delusions are actually true.
How much money is Glenn making via his Putin paycheck. Benny Johnson and Tim Pool received 100k per video. Maybe that's the standard rate.
Glenn Greenturd: "...the complete theater that our democracy is".
What is he talking about? "OUR democracy"?? He doesn't live in America. He fled. I heard things aren't going great for him in Brazil. Maybe he will move to Russia next? It might be more convenient for him to be located closer to his employer.
Democrats 2024 motto is MARA, "Make America Russia Again!" You all been heartin' on the gulag too much.
Jill Biden isn't making any such decisions. I think Glen Greenturd might have tinfoil poisoning. Democrats don't want to MARA, that's what republiturds want. d0n-0ld (no doubt) wants to set up American gulags if he wins to imprison his enemies. I suspect you'd approve. republiturds like Mystere definitely agree 100 percent. He frequently babbles about sending Democrats to Gitmo to be executed. You keep trying to gaslight, even though you should know (by now) that doesn't work with me.
I don't think Glen Greenturd is actually crazy. I'm not sure about you. I think what's going on is that you both realize that the tRump movement bigly attracts crazies and that you're totally down with spinning narratives that feeds their (your) paranoid delusions.
Mystere is totally and completely insane. That is something I am 100 percent convinced of.
Glenn Greenwald censors no one. Unlike the Democrats, he's got nothing to hide.
I smell a rat... Oh wait, Dervy's here. He's been eating turds again.
What's this about Mystere, Dervnac The Imbecile? Mystere hasn't been here, from what I can see. Those turds you gobbled down are making you hallucinate, Dervnac.
Minus: he's got nothing to hide.
Not his payments from Putin? He isn't hiding them? You know all about them? How much money is Putin paying him?
I thought it was "Dervnac The Magnificent One". That is per your latest fake blog.
Putin pays people that have common sense? Where's MY check?
Not enough people are listening to you. You're going to need to grow your audience significantly to qualify for Putin payments.
Lack of common sense is also required. And Glenn Greenturd definitely lacks it.
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