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U.S. Seeks Fallback Saudi Bases in Case of Iran Tensions
[AnNahar] The US military is looking for fallback bases in Soddy Arabia...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... to prevent its troops deployed there from becoming obvious targets in the event of tensions with Iran, a senior US military official said Thursday. "We are not looking for new bases. I want to be clear on that," said General Kenneth McKenzie, head of the US Army Central Command (Centcom), during a tour of the Middle East. "What we would like to do, without shutting down these (current) bases .... is to have the ability to go to other bases to operate in a period of heightened risk," he explained. "These are things that any prudent military planner would want to do to increase their flexibility, to make it more difficult for the adversary to target them." The Wall Street Journal reported on plans for ports and air bases in the kingdom's western desert, which the US military would seek to develop as positions to be used if war were to break out with Iran. At the year's end, the US military deployed the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz to the region and had two B-52 bombers overfly the area. The show of force was intended to deter Tehran from carrying out any attack on US forces on the first anniversary of the liquidation by the United States of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani  President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz KidBiden  ...Candidate for president in 2020. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... 's administration said Thursday it was ready to meet with Iranian officials under EU auspices to jumpstart diplomacy, and reversed Trump's widely derided contention that the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... had imposed new sanctions on Iran. Even close US allies had dismissed the argument and the United Nations said that no such additional sanctions had come into force. Related: Kenneth McKenzie: 2021-02-10 Abdullah Slams Taliban for Avoiding Negotiations Kenneth McKenzie: 2020-09-13 Taliban Have Not Cut Ties with Al-Qaida: Kenneth McKenzie Jr. Kenneth McKenzie: 2020-07-15 US commander warns Hezbollah of severe consequences if they attack Israel Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-20 |
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