More US Marines and warships are being deployed to the Middle East, two officials confirmed to CBS News, the BBC’s US partner.
The officials said the reinforcements were to come from an amphibious ready group and its Marine expeditionary unit, with one official adding that the group would be led by the Japan-based USS Tripoli, an amphibious assault ship.
The unit headed by the USS Tripoli typically consists of around 5,000 sailors and Marines distributed across several warships.
The development comes as Donald Trump said US forces had “totally obliterated” Iranian military infrastructure on Kharg Island in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway for global oil shipping.
Putting their lives on the line in the name of pedophiles and foreign interests. I hope they don’t think for a moment they’re heroes.
With some of the worst education systems of all, they probably don’t think much at all. Recently (a few days or weeks ago), Florida made teaching university sociology a crime. They promised them big easy pay and ‘thanked’ them ‘for their ‘service’’, then turned around and cut veterans’ pay (and benefits) like Milton Friedman cut school budgets into his personal pockets. Not surprisingly, their economy has a (opioid-style of) dependency of burying itself in campaigns of more debt of unsolicited military aggression, expropriative extraction of land, minerals, gunpoint-based cheap labor, and snake oil artificial ‘intelligence’ (i.e. statistical inference software), like a cancerous body turning on itself. However, like Milton Friedman’s accomplices Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher refused to acknowledge, There are many alternatives! (like putting words on internet forums in the name of a pseudonym for high-quality free paid education work (because studying is work, and work is to be paid in a society that respects itself, some ‘more normal’ countries actually pay their students to study (e.g. Denmark, etc.))
1 billion per day, just to do this. the longer trump drags on and doesnt admit defeat the worst its going to get economically. iran can drag this on indefinitely.
The scary part is Hegsett and Trump would rather nuke than admit defeat.
Part of me wishes that it nukes itself in confusion.
Basically the only options are another forever war or WW3.
Actually that billion per day doesn’t count the extra logistics and movement of troops and equipment, so in reality that number is maybe close to double what they report.
Absolute insanity.
How is America going to pay for all this debt?
they did spend 93bn in a couple months, so theres that.
Man who would’ve predicted the Epstein Wars of 2026? I mean I guess everyone, literally everyone. Bibi’s got all that kompromat on Trump.
Epstein even predicted trump would invade iran to save his own ass
exactly, hence The Epstein Wars (includes Venezuela and others)
cuba is the next distraction.
I think that’s Marco Rubio’s personal goal probably
epstein also advised pUTIN 2018, how to CONTROL trump more closely, thats why he was so DISTRAUGHT after his meeting with putin in 2020, after he lost the election.
and putin too, currently hes benefited from this due to sky high oil prices and the sanctions being lifted. plus russia being friends of iran is also providing intelligence on ME areas of interest and probaly US positions, and pressuring TRUMP too.
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Isn’t the US doctrine supposed to be that it can fight a 2 front war easily? How is it struggling, finding itself having to shuffle troops in?
Also, how is all of this happening with no congressional declaration of war? Would I be sent to ICE prison if I were to call this administration traitors to the constitution?
All other US engagements had some level of planning and logistical preparation. Thus appears to be a true gaggle fuck.
I have more questions: if the US wins what does it win? What is victory? What’s the goal?
This is genuinely the biggest problem facing them right now. Trump has never developed any comprehension of war more complex than “Swing dick, feel big” and he is abysmally bad at long term planning. So they’ve gone into this fight with zero notion of what they want out of it or how to get it.
If it was forcing Iran to negotiate, they’ve just removed any incentive to do so by proving that they will happily use negotiations as a pretext for sneak attacks (and remember, they had a deal with Iran that was working; Trump tore it up).
If it was regime change, they’ve just crushed the credibility of the revolutionary movement that was brewing in Iran. Now public sympathy is entirely with the regime and anyone standing against them is stabbing in the blood of massacred innocents. And the Kurds aren’t going to be much help after the US completely fucked them over.
If it was removing Iran as a military threat in the region, that’s going to take boots on the ground which is clearly something they made zero preparation for. Even if they hastily move forced into place I guarantee any invasion will be rushed and poorly thought out.
If it was destroying Iran’s nuclear program, well, they tried that once already and it didn’t take. So what do they intend to do differently this time?
It’s honestly incredible how much of this problem is not just the bad decision to rush into the fight now, but actually the culmination of so many bad decisions that Trump has made over his two terms in office. You could teach an entire class on geopolitics just by studying every blunder Trump has made in the Middle East.
Thank you for laying out what the possibilities could have been and how the administration has already fumbled.
Can we talk more about the regime change narrative? You seem to say the Iranian people are now supporting the regime. Is it truly because the opposition was literally gunned down earlier in the year? Or is it because the opposition is rallying to the Iranian flag against a common enemy (the US and Israel)?
The news isn’t really talking about that and about why the protests against the regime haven’t started again.
I’m not saying that the people who were angry at the regime have suddenly flipped to being supporters. That’s a rather extreme interpretation of my statements.
But what we are seeing out of Iran is that those ongoing protests have seemingly disappeared entirely. And not as a result of the crackdown. There were ongoing waves of protests even after significant numbers of protesters were killed, and that tracks with what we know about civil unrest more broadly; throughout history the slaughter of dissenters has never been an effective method for ending civil unrest. When regimes do survive mass uprisings, what you’ll invariably find is that it’s because they made sufficient concessions to at least somewhat address the cause of the unrest, even if those concessions come in the wake of, or alongside, a brutal crackdown. But violence alone never works.
And yet, the regime still stands, despite polling from before the war suggesting that 70-90% of Iranians supported regime change to some degree. If there was going to be a civil war, a coup, a mass uprising, surely now would be the time? So what happened?
Well, one, it’s hard to get out in the streets when you’re being bombed. Two, it’s hard to gather a movement against a regime that’s suddenly justified in all of their rhetoric about how they were the only thing defending you against American and Israeli aggression.
On top of that, you have to remember that Iran has a very different media environment from us. For Iranian dissidents, the idea that the US was going to support and assist in a transition of power, perhaps allowing Iran to finally become a welcome member of the international community, was really important. That notion was shattered when the US turned up and just started bombing the hell out of them. Hard to imagine they’re your saviours waiting in the wings when they murder 180 schoolgirls.
What they wanted was a regime change on their terms. A chance to build a new government that would stand for the needs of Iranian people. What they’re now facing, instead, looks like years to decades of American occupation, just like Iraq and Afghanistan. The next in a long line of imperial projects. They wanted freedom and they’re being offered a new form of oppression. So why bother? Why risk your life fighting if the alternative to the government you have is an American boot on your neck and some asshole from Alabama who doesn’t even speak your language gunning you down in the street for going to get groceries. At least the regime kills you for fighting back. Americans will just kill you for looking different.
Here, listen to Iranians tell it in their own words; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/14/anti-regime-iranians-turn-on-trump-us
Where is Israel? Only Americans’ lives are at risk.
That’s what you voted for guys!(The maga ones) Now wait for mid elections or something and go fight for your country.
The worst part is kids does and will die.Don’t forget the idiot leftists who think both sides are the same so didn’t vote .
Harris got a >50% more votes in California than Trump, or over 3 million more.
If 3 million Californians who voted for Harris instead voted for 3rd party candidates, or stayed home, she still would have won California.
If 500 000 Texans who voted for Trump instead voted for Harris, she still would have lost Texas.
Over 4.8 million Texans voted for Harris, and she still lost that state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election#Results_by_state
The populate vote doesn’t technically matter; but it still matters. Moreover, spreading the crap that the parties are the same, stressing that the dem candidate was just as bad on some issue, that her laugh was annoying - all that matters.
I like that she does laugh.
Correct, Republican and Republican-lite aren’t the same, and if you’re in a purple state, you might have to hold your nose while you vote, but not all states are purple, and even then some would still rather vote for something that allies more with their principles.
Looking forward to the draft, that should be fun.
People think all the protests in the 60s were about the War, but they were really about the draft. Once the draft ended, and only volunteers were going (always plenty of morons who want to experience the “glory” of war), the protests slowed a lot.
Call for a draft, and watch the fireworks.
This time, a draft won’t result in “protests”. If these people are to die anyway, they might as well die in their homeland than in a foreign sandbox.
That’s how I see it. A Draft is about the worst thing a nation can do to its citizens, especially during a war. It is the same as pointing a loaded weapon at someone. You are putting their life in mortal danger, and I have no problem with them using lethal force to defend themselves.
When the draft starts, the first thing that needs to happen is for every military induction center to be burned to the ground. And when they rebuild, burn it down again. Also any military recruitment shops. If they show up on college campuses, run them off, and force colleges to prohibit their presence on campus.
The Draft is as immoral as any government policy can be, must not be tolerated, and must be harshly resisted in every way possible.
Israel doesn’t have a useful idiot as leader.
trump is israels useful idiot.
Loosing terribly when not just bombing from a far.
All this for a war that was won?
The “Piss President”.
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Hope there aren’t any suckers or losers amongst them.
