Middle East On Edge.
“US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a guided-missile submarine to the Middle East and accelerated the arrival of a carrier strike group to the region ahead of an anticipated Iranian attack against Israel, the Pentagon said in a statement Sunday evening.
The USS Georgia, a nuclear-powered submarine armed with cruise missiles, was operating in the Mediterranean Sea in recent days, according to the Navy, having just completed training near Italy.
Austin ordered the submarine into the waters of the Middle East, the Pentagon said. The movement of US missile submarines is rarely revealed publicly, and the nuclear-powered vessels operate in near-complete secrecy.”
The outgoing Biden Administration is loath to leave on a note of Global Conflict and will do everything in its’ power to stave off a wider Middle East Conflict. The legacy of President Biden and the potential election of Kamala Harris to the Presidency depend on keeping the peace and disallowing an election year war catastrophe. The Biden Administration is in diplomatic overdrive, pulling all the levers at its disposal to keep the status quo and it is now just a wait and see game as everyone holds their breath.
