US to deploy additional troops to the Middle East, officials say

ZunarJ5

But healthcare is far too big of an ask. Btw, they've been planning on this. https://web.archive.org/web/20260304105404/https://www.indee...

vkou

A war with no objective, no timeline, not authorized by congress, inflicting massive damage to the national and world economy, and the executive going cap in hand begging for more borrowed money to run it.

mlmonkey

If only they had given him a Nobel Peace Prize .....

ortusdux

It's wild that people were forecasting this last night because troops were posting photos of lobster dinners.

Theodores

What I don't understand is that the talk on this concerns marines going through the Strait of Hormuz to then annex the Iranian terminals on Kharg Island. Now, I know marines are kind of into doing water things, but the USA owns the GCC countries, and I think Iraq was conquered a little while ago. So why can't a different route be taken? Can't they just drive across the desert from the country known as Israel? Or from the Red Sea?

shevy-java

It is hard to predict the future, but to me it looks as if the USA already lost that war. Now, we can say "define losing", but in my opinion the strategy used by the USA is not clear here. Yes, they can shift constantly and willy-nilly define new goals, but everyone ends up being confused. In Iraq it was the lie that it is about weapons of mass destruction. They don't even seem to try for anything here now. The strategy used by Israel is clear - Netanyahu as ultra-right wing politician has the strategy of escalation. But this does not explain why the USA adopts this strategy 1:1. The interesting thing is that Trump is now stuck in the war, just like Putin is in Ukraine. They start forever wars and have no real way out of it, at the least not a simple one. That means the next "logical" step is that there will be US ground troops; the private media is already starting to prepare the population aka "we must occupy Kharg" (or any other area). This is somewhat similar to Lyndon B. Johnson and Vietnam. Step-wise expansion of the agenda. So WHO is really doing the policy in the USA? Clearly it is not Trump - he constantly changes his opinion.

recursivecaveat

So he's going deploy ground troops to occupy Kharg island so he can stop the flow of oil through there. At the same time he's lifting sanctions on 140M barrels of Iranian oil on tankers. So uhhhh which is it? Do we want Iran to sell oil or not? The only constancy seems to be a desire to dig deeper into the hole.