The lack of a U.S. carrier in the Pacific may be short-lived if the Navy deploys another in the next couple of months. But it shows how the open-ended operations with Iran are running some American sailors ragged, analysts say, while the Trump administration further retreats from the Asia-Pacific region and focuses on the Western Hemisphere.

“The administration says that the Pacific is supposed to be the most important behind the Western Hemisphere,” said Greg Poling, director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Instead, the U.S. is “doing the exact opposite” of its previously expressed goal of pulling out of the Middle East.

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    the US hasn’t let them

    It’s not the US, it’s this big magic rock. Also works to scare away tigers

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            It is very cringe to see folks who clapped like seals when the US bombed a girl’s school get incredibly mad when someone else builds a girl’s school.

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              If a person denies what’s happening to the Uyghurs, they’re no better than the People denying the genocide in Gaza and shilling for Israel. But I’m sure that’s not you, right?

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                You used the Taliban’s miserable treatment of women to justify a 23 year holocaust in Afghanistan.

                Now you’re calling a Chinese campaign to educate and elevate women living right next door to Afghanistan a genocide.

                Beginning to think you just hate Muslims and want them to suffer.

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                  You used the Taliban’s miserable treatment of women to justify a 23 year holocaust in Afghanistan.

                  It’s cringe that you have to lie to make your point.

                  Now you’re calling a Chinese campaign to educate and elevate women living right next door to Afghanistan a genocide.

                  What an absolutely horrific and disgusting thing to say about what’s happening to the Uyghurs. Your support for Muslims is purely performative if that’s truly your opinion. You only care for them when it suits your anti-western agenda and not because it’s the right thing to care for.

                  This makes you no better than the Magtards in support of the Iran war, no better than the Israeli Nazis supporting the Gaza genocide, no better than the Russian fascists in support of their war.

                  Oh well another one for the tankie block list.