Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is sending an amphibious assault ship, the USS Tripoli, and its Marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East, a senior U.S. official confirmed to Axios on Friday. Why it matters: The deployment will add thousands of Marines, several warships, and F-35 fighter jets to support those already in the region, the U.S. official said.
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I’d say, “why not ICE”, but the likelihood that they’d gleefully commit crimes against humanity as soon as their boots hit the soil makes me not wish ICE upon even America’s enemies.
But here’s the upside. They’re so incompetent that if they encounter armed opposition first it’d be like the SS going up against the Dutch or Norwegian military remnant resistance cells, that is to say abject slaughter.