Keith Bayer
401 posts

Keith Bayer
@keithbayer
Practicing the technique of ultra modern.
Katılım Mayıs 2013
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The USS Gerald R. Ford is not parked near Iran. It is parked off Israel. And nobody is asking the only question that matters: why.
The $13.3 billion crown jewel of the US Navy, the largest warship ever constructed, just positioned itself off Haifa. Not in the Arabian Sea where the Lincoln sits 850 kilometers from Iranian shores loaded for offensive operations. Not in the Gulf where strike range is optimal. Off Israel. Defending Israel.
This is not redundancy. This is architecture.
Two carriers. Two missions. Two entirely different strategic functions. The Lincoln is the sword, positioned to launch strike packages into Iranian airspace within hours of an order. The Ford is the shield, its Aegis missile defense systems creating an umbrella over Israeli population centers against the retaliation that follows the first Tomahawk.
America just split its carrier doctrine into offense and defense simultaneously. That has not happened since the Pacific theater in 1945.
But the positioning reveals something deeper than tactics. When Iran retaliates, and every wargame says Iran retaliates, its missiles and drones fly toward Israel. They will fly through the same airspace where a US carrier strike group is now stationed. Every Iranian missile aimed at Tel Aviv or Haifa must traverse the Ford’s defensive envelope. Shooting at Israel means shooting at, around, and through an American carrier group.
Iran cannot retaliate against Israel without engaging American naval assets. The Ford’s position makes that physically impossible. The carrier is not defending Israel as a favor. It is positioned so that any Iranian response to American strikes automatically becomes an attack on American forces, triggering the full unrestrained weight of US military response without a single additional political decision required.
This is escalation insurance written in steel and seawater. If the campaign goes longer than planned, if munitions run thin in 7 to 10 days, if allies hesitate, the Ford’s position ensures that Iranian retaliation does the political work Washington cannot do alone: it transforms a limited American strike into an act of self-defense that no ally can refuse to support.
You do not park a $13.3 billion carrier where the enemy’s return fire will hit it unless you want the enemy’s return fire to hit it.
The Ford is not there to prevent escalation. The Ford is there to guarantee that if escalation comes, it comes on terms that make American restraint politically impossible and allied participation politically unavoidable. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

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@MRSCOTT1776 @JakeLang You were acting like an asshole that’s why you were kicked out. I doubt you were eating in peace or do anything in peace for that matter.
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Ridiculous.
PATRIOTS cant even eat in peace anymore.
Jake Lang - January 6 Political Prisoner 🇺🇸@JakeLang
🚨 BREAKING: We were just KICKED OUT & ASSAULTED by staff at the gross MINNEAPOLIS restaurant BLVD!!!! 😡😡 Why??? 👀 Because we were overheard talking about TRUMP & SUPPORTING ICE!! There is an ALL OUT WAR on patriots in Minnesota!!!! 😧 FEBRUARY 7th WE TAKE MN BACK!!🇺🇸✝️
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🇺🇸@VP on the operation in Venezuela:
"It's going to make our country richer, it's going to make our country more powerful, it's going to make our country safer, and it's going to lead to the further decline of drug overdose deaths in the United States of America — an amazing thing."
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@xAIMemphis @elonmusk All hands on deck? There’s like 8 people in these pictures.
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@bennyjohnson @TrumpChicago You got a Time Machine? It’s not even Thanksgiving.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
*This* is why you stay at the Trump Tower in Chicago for Christmas🎄
I love this place. They make core memories that my family will cherish forever. Christmas magic.
Check out this room.
Thank you @TrumpChicago
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@bikes_r_fun @mtgreenee If you don’t think he’s profiting immensely from his presidency (it’s in the billions btw) you shouldn’t be voting.
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@mtgreenee So dramatic. Trump got shot in the ear, had another attempt on his life at his own golf course and was facing 450 years in prison. He doesn’t even take a salary.
You did this to yourself. All of it. You’re a mess and have never been so unstable. Hope you find peace. You need it
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@PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @BillOReilly The sexual harassment guy? Yeah he’s a good guy to model yourself after 👍🏼
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'You can do the satire and get your point across without being hateful.'
Bill O'Reilly reveals he once tried to reach out to Jimmy Kimmel to advise him to rethink his show's rhetoric.
📺 youtu.be/kScTg9mvHbQ
@piersmorgan | @BillOReilly

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@piersmorgan Glad to see you’re still employed 👍🏼way to go Piers 👏🏼
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@teslaownersSV @elonmusk @Tesla @Tesla_Optimus We’re obsessed with making ourselves obsolete and taking away unskilled jobs from the young, elderly, and uneducated.
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Insane to see how Tesla Optimus is able to adjust the way it’ll hold the popcorn box when it’s handed the box super low in it’s hand @tesla @Tesla_Optimus
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@SportsSturm where is the “It’s Dallas Tx what do you think?” From?
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@anthonycabassa Those weigh like 20 lbs making them difficult to throw. Tough to grip too
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@elonmusk @realDonaldTrump Thanks, but we knew that already. He also wants to boink his daughter.
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