by Susan Duclos, All News Pipeline:
The Middle East has always been a powder keg, but since the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel, and Israel’s ongoing response, we are closer to WWIII than at any time in our history.
No matter ones personal feelings regarding the War between Israel and Hamas, a group America designated a terrorist group on October 8, 1997, along with 13 other groups, as shown at the State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, no one wants to see WWIII, which inevitably would turn into a nuclear war.
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The fact is nuclear powers are taking sides, which has happened before without resulting in a world war, but this time we are seeing attacks against U.S. embassies and U.S. military bases in the Middle East. We see our warships being deployed, as well as additional troops and missile systems, into an area on the brink of explosion.
As a quick disclaimer: Personally I don’t think we should have military bases in foreign countries, after all, we do not allow other nations to do so in America.
That is a discussion for another day though as we have so much happening, all at once in the Middle East, that we need realize that war barreling it’s way towards us like an out-of-control train.
Below we will take a look at how fast that train is moving.
U.S. embassies in Beirut, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Lebanon, and others have seen attacks, or bomb threats, while multiple others nations are seeing massive demonstrations, many violent. U.S. military bases and/or soldiers in Iraq and Syria have been attacked.
There are travel advisories from the U.S. State Department for Iraq, which says “do not travel,” and as of October 23, a “worldwide caution advisory” for U.S. citizens traveling abroad.
More worrisome is the amount of military force being deployed to the Middle East, not only by the U.S. but by china as well. Of course we are told by China that their warships are there on “routine escort missions.”
Both the U.S., China and Israel, are nuclear powers.
Perhaps the most concerning bit of new is that the U.S. is not only sending more missile systems to the Middle East but we are deploying additional troops. While our support is understandable since more than 30 American citizens were killed in the Hamas attack in Israel, it is a very bad sign when we start accruing troops in the Middle East, especially while a war is raging.
The Pentagon overnight said it will send two of its most powerful weapons against missiles to the Middle East and prepare an unspecified number of troops to deploy overseas after “recent escalations by Iran and its proxy forces” continue to threaten a wider war in the region.
The U.S. will send a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system and additional Patriot air defense missile system battalions “to locations throughout the region,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement, adding that he has placed an “additional number” of American troops on prepare-to-deploy orders.
Austin did not say how many battalions would be sent or exactly where they would be going, nor did he specify the number of troops under new orders—the U.S. has already sent two aircraft carriers, their support ships and about 2,000 Marines to the Middle East, Reuters reported.
With the war not just between Israel and Hamas, as the U.S. has intercepted missiles coming from Yemen, and Hamas is in discussions with Iran, who controls both Hamas and Hezbollah in Syria.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah has been exchanging fire with Israel across the border for days in the deadliest escalation since they fought a major war in 2006, threatening to expand a conflict between Israel and Palestinian group Hamas.
Backed by Iran, Hezbollah has said it is ready to help when the time comes in the war between Israel and Hamas, which is also backed by Tehran. Sources said last week Hezbollah’s attacks so far had been designed to be contained and so avoid another major war.
We also have Iran now warning that the Middle East is about to go “out of control.”
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