Here’s the reports:
It’s not just Canada. Kuwait is asking all its citizens in Lebanon to leave immediately:
Meanwhile there are also reports that the US is moving ships around, sending an aircraft carrier to the Mediterranean while the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower is leaving the Red Sea and also transiting to the Mediterranean. The article below suggests that Ike is coming home, so I’m not sure why it’s heading for the Mediterranean.
While Ike and its cruiser escort will transit to the Mediterranean Sea, the destroyer escorts will stay in U.S. 5th Fleet, a U.S. official told USNI News on Friday. Additionally, flight spotters tracked Eisenhower’s C-2A Greyhound detachment flying from the U.S. 5th Fleet base in Bahrain to the Mediterranean.
The decision comes as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin elected not to extend the Navy’s second-oldest carrier for a third time, the official confirmed. As of Friday, the carrier had been deployed for more than eight months. USNI News reported earlier this month Ike has deployed for more days than any other U.S.-based carrier for the last five years.
“Time to bring them home,” the official said.
It’s unclear which carrier from the Pacific would move to the Middle East to take over the operations from Ike. The U.S. official would not confirm the Pacific carrier to USNI News when asked. The closest, according to USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker, is USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) which deployed from San Diego, Calif., in January.
The last time a Pacific carrier deployed to the Middle East was in 2021 when the U.S. evacuated troops from Afghanistan.
It sounds like there is great fear that Israel is about to unleash on Lebanon. I think they absolutely should given the daily missile strikes from Hezbollah. These countries are smart to want their people to leave.
https://therightscoop.com/breaking-report-countries-are-telling-their-citizens-to-evacuate-lebanon/
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