Members of the 1st Armored Brigade, 3rd Battalion, 69th Armored Regiment Combat Team are deployed to Germany to reassure NATO allies, deter Russian aggression and prepare to support a range of other needs in the region
You US warned this Sunday 22nd that they are increasing their presence in middle East faced with a possible “regional escalation” of the war Israel and that Hamas. Shortly after the Pentagon announced a military buildup in the region in light of “recent escalations by Iran and its affiliated forces,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed concern about the risk of a conflagration in the region. In addition, Washington today ordered the withdrawal of nonessential staff from its embassy in Baghdad and its consulate in Erbil. The international community fears that the war that began on the 7th will spread to other countries in the Middle East, and Iran warned that the region is “a powder keg.” “We are concerned about the possibility that intermediaries from Iran will increase their attacks on our own employees, our own people,” Blinken told CBS News.
“No one should take advantage of this moment to increase attacks against Israel or our military and civilian personnel in this region,” he added. The United States “will not hesitate to take military action against any “organization or country” that seeks to expand the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Middle East,” Lloyd Austin warned, without mentioning Iran or Hezbollah, which Israel today accuses Lebanon of “dragging Lebanon into war.” The US Secretary of Defense warned on ABC News about “those who are trying to escalate the conflict.” Our advice is, ‘Don’t do that.’
The United States will “do everything necessary to ensure that our troops are well positioned and protected and that we are able to respond,” he warned. American President Joe Biden spoke today with the leaders of the most important Western powers about the war in the Middle East, the White House said. Biden spoke with the leaders of the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany and Italy. A summary of the discussions will be published later. The American president also spoke with the Pope and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom he agreed that the Gaza Strip would receive “a continuous flow” of humanitarian aid. After a second convoy of trucks entered the Gaza Strip from Egypt, Biden and Netanyahu said after a telephone conversation that “from now on there will be a continuous flow of this critical assistance into Gaza” for the Palestinian population, the White House report said.
*With information from AFP