The carriers are too far away for their planes to make any real contribution to the US bombing campaign which is being mainly carried out by quickly depreciating stockpiles of missiles.
That may be the real reason for the new ships being sent. The ships already there can’t resupply anywhere near as those US bases are still under attack and the next closest bases are very far away.
Trump ordered Iran to surrender then the next day said they had surrendered when they actually said the opposite, now he’s ordering ineffective escalation, he’s panicking.
Videos from Israel last night showing that Iranian ballistic missiles are definitely getting through the air defences and causing a lot of damage.
Other US officials are saying the war may now last 100 days but no one is saying what the oil price will be at 100 days of blockade, it will certainly be well over $200 a barrel and all the world’s economies will be on their knees. No sane leader could let that happen, that’s Zelensky level irresponsibility.
Trump has already gone too far to save himself even if he backed away now. Note that Trump has ordered the vice president to stop giving interviews and comments on the Middle East situation which suggests there are some who see the dead end destructive path ahead.
In Ukraine and the Russians are gearing up for their Spring offensive and 1 goal, once they have completed the capture of Konstantinovka, is shaping up to be the encirclement of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
Note on the ISW map below that west of these 2 cities there is nothing right up to the Donetsk border.
And the 2nd goal looks like being the encirclement of the city of Orikhiv in the Zaporizhzhia oblast and the last obstacle before Zaporizhzhia city itself (in the 2nd ISW map below Orikhiv is named Preobrazhenka).
Peter Schiff: Iran War Creates Chaos in the World Economy
