Escalating tensions in Mid East US deploys two aircraft carriers.

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Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Law Enforcement, Crime, True Crime, Military

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🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Escalating Tensions: US Deploys Two Aircraft Carriers to Middle East" #Israel #Hamas #escalation The Pentagon announced late Saturday that it will send an aircraft carrier and air defense systems to defend U.S. military troops in response to a growing number of attacks on U.S. facilities, presumably by Iranian-backed groups as tensions mount amid the Israel-Hamas conflict. Additional U.S. military forces in the U.S. have also been placed in a higher state of readiness for a possible future deployment to the Middle East on short notice. In a major change, the aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower and its strike group of a cruiser and destroyers is being redirected to the Middle East instead of to the eastern Mediterranean where it was supposed to join the USS Ford strike group as an additional deterrent for Iran and Hezbollah from broadening the conflict between Hamas and Israel.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to police off the cuff real crime stories. I'm your host,
0:16.8	retired NYPD sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.
0:23.1	You know, folks, tonight's show is not going to be the typical true crime show,
0:26.8	because I think there's a bigger issue going on that affects all of us,
0:32.3	and it's going on, of course, in the Middle East.
0:37.2	Peacekeepers or escalators, are we escalating this by getting involved?
0:41.9	Fearing escalation of tensions between Iran and Israel, the U.S. moves two aircraft carriers
0:47.3	to the Middle East.
0:49.3	Now, I have no doubt in my mind that we, Israel is our strongest ally in the Middle East, and we need to defend them.
1:00.0	But having said that, this area of the Middle East is always a powder cake, and it could drag us into a war, a very substantial war with, you know, many different actors,
1:17.4	different players on different sides going into.
1:20.3	So I think it would be remiss of all of us to just blindly think that this is a, you know,
1:31.8	a small little spat that could turn into a large, full-scale war.
1:35.6	And we must all realize that and not take any of these things lightly.
1:40.8	And hopefully our leaders and our armed forces are up to the task and in no way
1:47.0	do we want American lives to be lost in the Middle East. However, this could become a regional
1:56.0	conflict that drags us in as it has previously.
2:01.8	So I think we all must be concerned
2:03.7	and we all must keep our eyes on this.
2:05.6	And this is, to me, the biggest story
2:08.5	that is going on right now
2:10.3	that sort of is more important
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