Ukraine, Gaza, Venezuela, or Portland. Pick your spot and Trump and company are pounding the drums for war there. From David Haggith at thedailydoom.com:
More WAR headlines involving the US ALL OVER THE WORLD flooded the news this weekend AND TODAY than I’ve seen in years.
In my weekend Deeper Dive, I covered the rapidly rising amplitude of “Risks of the First Direct War between NATO and Russia.” I laid out all the speculation about Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s rushed meeting with all of the top brass in all branches of the US military and placed them in the contest of all the rapid changes in posture around Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Now, I’m going to lay out the numerous new turns of war and conflict that have arisen just one day since. The one thing clear from all of the stories presented was an exponential rise of events with strong threats of World War III being spoken that are starting to sound like more than Putin’s normal saber rattling. Now that Trump gave Europe his approval of shooting down any Russian planes that stray over European air space, things are rapidly heating up.
Here are the big war stories that opened up further since the weekend Deeper Dive:
Large wave of air tankers deployed from US to Europe
Today, we got news today that the US is deploying a wave of air tankers to Europe, as a nation does when it readies its logistics for a major air battle:
The timing coincides with President Trump’s scheduled last-minute meeting with senior military leadership in northern Virginia on Tuesday. Historical precedent is very notable here: the last comparable mass tanker deployment … preceded U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure by five days.
We’re talking no small number of these huge areal tankers:
Roughly a dozen U.S. Air Force KC-135R/T “Stratotanker” Aerial-Refueling Tankers are currently up from a number of airbases across the United States, heading northeast and preparing to cross the Atlantic towards Europe, with several appearing to be enroute to RAF Mildenhall in England,… which typically implies that the U.S. or NATO is responding to an urgent military need … but this can also be done for exercise purposes….
Other assets are airborne which are not visible on ADS-B tracking data.
