Meanwhile in zogcentral: "Can't we just have a bunch of palestinian flag waving neonazis pulling a terror attack on frogs instead?"
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The political aspect of the whole affair is tricky, hence why I believe the US will play its hands in both an obvious and indirect way
Obvious for the virtue signal, covert for the details, so we can talk about something else on the side while shit gets done over there https://poal.co/s/geopolitics/672711
However, Kirby said that the Eisenhower will not be directly joining or escorting. Instead, the carrier will be in the region for availability if called upon. While in a press briefing Kirby tried to downplay the dual carrier deployment as somewhat routine or expected, they will certainly be on standby to potentially intervene if all hell continues breaking loose in the Middle East. [...] Kirby also confirmed that the US administration is in talks with Qatar as part of mediation efforts to free the hostages being held by Hamas. It's believed there are Americans among the captives in Gaza, which at this moment is being pounded by Israeli airstrikes...
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