• Gorilladrums@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    No, that’s stupid. Aircraft carriers are built to be portable military airports. They’re made for blue water warfare against coastal countries with no US military bases nearby. It’s useful against countries like China or India or Brazil where there are no US basis around, but that’s not the case for Iran. The US already has military bases in Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Bahrain, Oman, Syria, and Iraq. The Ford carrier is just there as a symbolic show of force.