WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s rare move to keep two Navy aircraft carriers in the Middle East over the past several weeks has now ended, as the USS Theodore Roosevelt is heading home, according to US officials.
US commanders in the Middle East have long argued that the presence of a US aircraft carrier and the warships accompanying it has been an effective deterrent in the region, particularly for Iran. Since the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip began last fall, there has been a persistent carrier presence in and around the region — and for short periods they have overlapped to have two of the carriers there at the same time.
Israel must think they’ve got US Congress and presidency on lock. No need to continue to escalate.
These carriers were sent after israel assasinated the Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh in Iran. Israel called in big bro Biden to protect them after they start bullying other countries. Israel was likely hoping that Hezbollah and Iran would launch their retaliation soon after so Biden had an excuse to start a war on Lebanon and Iran.
But Iran has not yet responded to israel’s attack. Iran has been extremely well calculated during this Genocide making sure not to get baited into attacking at an inconvenient time.
Aircraft carriers cost a massive amount of money to keep around, and them being in the Middle East meant they could not be elsewhere. So Iran’s best move was to just wait for them to leave.
Now the question still remains whether Iran will actually respond to create deterrence again. After all some time has passed and tempers have lowered. But if Iran doesn’t retaliate israel will just bomb them again in the future knowing Iran won’t do anything back.