The US sailors(3000) and Marines entered the Red Sea on Sunday after transiting through the Suez Canal in a pre-announced deployment, the US Navy's Fifth Fleet said in a statement.
They arrived on board the USS Bataan and USS Carter Hall warships, providing "greater flexibility and maritime capability" to the Fifth Fleet, the statement from the Bahrain-based command added.
The deployment adds to efforts "to deter destabilising activity and de-escalate regional tensions caused by Iran's harassment and seizures of merchant vessels," Fifth Fleet spokesman Commander Tim Hawkins told AFP.
USS Bataan is an amphibious assault ship which can carry fixed-wing and rotary aircraft as well as landing craft. The USS Carter Hall, a dock landing ship, transports Marines, their gear, and lands them ashore. CNA
This aggressive deployment of marines and assault ships with attack helicopters and tanks is the latest provocation by the Americans to threaten the Arab nations in the Middle East, especialy Iran. The Americans claimed that the huge military presence was to deescalate tension when the effect isjust the reverse. This is typical American gangsters using force and military might to bully countries and a show of force, that they are the top gangsters. Who dares to defy the American gangsters would be quashed. On the other hand they used the media to push a narrative that they are there for peace, their soldiers, warships and warplanes are for peace.
Iran and the Arab countries know exactly what the Americans are up to. The Americans could invade or attack anyone of them once their forces are in place, bullying the weaker Arab countries. The Americans are acting like the small town bully, carrying a big gun to threaten the innocent folks.
Iran and Arab countries must be prepared and ready to defend themselves against this international terrorist. The Americans are going to start another war after failing to achieve what they wanted in Ukraine. Ukraine is failing and the Ukraine War is coming to an end. A new war is needed to serve the interest of the Military Industrial Complex and to justify the need for a huge military force and production of more war machines.
The American warmongers must have wars and using wars as a business and did not care about the death and destruction of wars as long as the wars are fought outside their homeland. Middle East is now too peaceful and they are losing control of the Arab states. A war in the Middle East is top priority as the countries in the Middle East are very weak and unable to stand up to the Americans' fire power. The Americans can hit them but they cannot hit back. Oops, maybe not this time. Iran has built up enough capability to strike back with missiles able to hit Israel and the aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean. And Russia and China would not stand idly by.
One hypersonic missile at one end of the Suez Canal by Russia or Iran is all that is needed to end the sashaying by the USA using fleets of whatever number. Not that Russia or Iran will do it now, but these two countries will realistically do it when threatened, and they just do not just engage in idle talk.
ReplyDeleteThe USA had harboured the hope of using its naval power to blockade the Suez and Panana Canals and Straits of Malacca, in the event of conflict with China. China or Russia need not even have to send even one warship to put paid to those intentions. Just one hypersonic missile will take care of that, cleanly, efficiently and casualty free.
Why is China exploring alternative land and sea routes and building pipelines for oil movements while still going around the Straits of Malacca? China is hedging its bets. The land routes are already now well entrenched, with the BRI railroads already linking Central Asia with Europe for trade. China is exploring and developing port facilites in Pakistan for transfering oil from the Middle East, going via Pakistan and/or Afghanistan by pipelines to Western China, not needing to depend on the Straits of Malacca. China is also actively exploring the feasibility of building the Kra Canal.
China and Russia are also exploring the sea passage through the Northern Artic sea. The effect of climate change makes the Northern Artic sea route more accessible today than previously. Moreover, Russian oil is being delivered to China via pipelines and totally within Russia and China's control. China already had anticipated all the issues and have taken steps to mitigate them.
The BRI was a masterstroke to build road and rail infrastructures and to recycle part of the US$ surpluses from trade with the USA. Instead of buying more USA treasuries and being held hostage in times of conflict, giving US$ loans to countries for infrastructure development to be repaid in Yuan is making the USA paranoid, nervous and hapless.
That the loans have been dispensed to countries all around the world gives the USA less leverage over China, and is a very astute move. China is not under any form of pressure fearing that those infrastructures will be seized by the USA, like most Russian assets, as infrastructures that China built in those countries do not belong to China.