Pentagon sends prepare-to-deploy orders to 2,000 U.S. troops as Israel looks to be readying Hamas assault

Oct. 16, 2023

USS Gerald R. Ford, one of the world’s largest aircraft carriers, was ordered last weekend to sail to the eastern Mediterranean to be ready to assist Israel.
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has sent “prepare to deploy” orders to about 2,000 U.S. troops to be ready to respond to the Israel-Hamas war, two U.S. officials said on the condition of anonymity to discuss a decision that has not been announced yet.

The troops would cover a variety of support roles, such as additional medical support or explosive ordnance support, such as providing additional security at gate crossings, one of the officials said.

They would not be sent to Israel but could be sent to countries in the region, one of the officials said. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report the orders.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pentagon-sends-prepare-to-deploy-orders-to-2-000-u-s-troops-as-israel-looks-to-be-readying-hamas-assault-68a09c47?mod=WTRN_pos7&cx_testId=3&cx_testVariant=cx_160&cx_artPos=6

14 comments

  1. Someone, please pinch me. I think I’m having nightmares.
    While Ukraine fends on its own, with mostly old, too little too late stuff, fighting one of the world’s largest militaries, and this from a despicable, evil, vile, criminal regime, Israel gets TWO aircraft strike groups for a pack of mostly lightly-armed goat fuckers, and now we are willing to sacrifice 2000 of our own troops, although not directly in Israel, but still!
    This simply can’t be real. Biden is going insane.

  2. I am glad that Israel is getting some support. They were attacked by rabid, bloodthirsty hyenas that committed indescribably savage crimes and the perpetrators must be annihilated.
    This will please the Putler wing of the GOP, because their unofficial motto is :
    “We hate Ukraine but we love Israel. We love putler and we want Ukraine dead.” They know that this distraction helps their cause, which is the destruction of Ukraine.
    The IDF will smash Hamas. But putler’s plan is for Syria/Iran to take an active role, thus forcing the States to commit its forces.
    Putler is relying on an extended conflict in Ukraine and the M.E. to further weaken the already inadequate support for Ukraine.
    The putler-owned cunts in the GOP may be about to get their own man as Speaker: tovarish Jordan, which will make things far worse.
    But why is Biden able to show such resolve when it comes to helping Israel and such inadequacy when it comes to Ukraine, which has 340,000 hideously evil, rabid putinaZi hyenas to deal with?
    The evangelicals in America love Israel but are indifferent or hostile to Ukraine. Why? Possibly because they love Trumpkov, whose foul lies about Ukraine have poisoned their minds.
    Israel is attacked by lightly armed throwbacks and gets two US carrier battle groups. Ukraine is attacked by 200,000 heavily armed throwbacks, kills that number, but now faces 340,000 more throwbacks that will rape, torture, dismember, mutilate, thieve from and destroy thousands of homes, businesses and energy infrastructure. Yet they get no carrier battle groups and not even a NFZ.
    Something disturbingly wrong here.

  3. The only thing disturbing is your unfairness but I give you a gold start for your imagination, no matter how delusional it is. 😉
    You should try working in Las Vegas Sir Scradge, if you can read minds, why not?

    This will please the Putler wing of the GOP, because their unofficial motto is :
    “We hate Ukraine but we love Israel. We love putler and we want Ukraine dead.”

    Yeah, that will bring GOP to help Ukraine when there are people like you telling them to fuck off whether they love Ukraine or not. I suggest you read your own trash and take a good hard look at what you’re doing and who the fucking enemy is, friend. Its not the GOP. Divide and conquer? You are directly contributing to the death of Ukrainians with your horse shit and you don’t even care. I thought you loved Ukraine, I guess I was wrong, you only love Scradge

      • Don’t try to blame me for your hate. You are the one chasing off half of the US and chasing away people that would otherwise support Ukraine. I see it in the numbers here. Why do you have to hate the GOP? Don’t you want their support for Ukraine too? It is ok to point out those that don’t support Ukraine but why blame the whole GOP? The lies and hate have to stop or there isn’t much purpose for this site.

        • I’m GOP and i don’t like Israel very much, i’m an islamophobe, i hate Putin and love ukrainians. Further i support Biden where i agree with him. 😎

            • Biden also supported the wall. I think you should focus 😁 on American opinions. Foreigners can off-load their opinion but refrain from insulting us. 😉

              • That’s why I said fair and honest. Perhaps some people just don’t understand that putting people in baskets is just wrong. Maybe its just us Americans that find it offensive because we are all taught we are individuals and putting people in groups…like Hitler and Stalin did…is wrong.

        • “half of the US”

          Sir Scradge referred to “the Putler wing of the GOP”. Sounds like you’re suggesting that all of the GOP loves putler. That’s going a lot further than what Scradge wrote.

          “why blame the whole GOP?”

          He didn’t – he was only blaming the subset of the GOP who love putler.

  4. Let’s be clear.

    Russia attacked Ukraine; Ukraine is striking back against Russia.

    Hamas attacked Israel; Israel is striking back against Hamas.

    The US is not attacking Russia on Ukraine’s behalf; the US is not attacking Hamas on Israel’s behalf.

    Those aircraft strike groups are there to prevent other countries from also attacking Israel. (Not to mention that those other countries don’t have nukes or ICBMs…)

    • I fully understand the entire situation, both in Ukraine and in the Near East. What Biden is doing looks like a circus show to me. He goes at snail’s pace in the former theater, and fast as lightning in the other. You don’t have to tell me the reason. I know what power the Jewish portion of the US population has. That is the core of his reasoning.

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