Worthy Christian News Blog » U.S. building up its forces in the Gulf

The Jerusalem Post reported that the U.S. was sending two more aircraft carriers into the gulf to accompany the two U.S. naval battle groups already in the region. I find it amazing that this story wasn’t picked up the the U.S. news media! I waited before posting this blog to see if the U.S. would confirm or deny the story — it hasn’t done either.

It certainly appears that the U.S. and Israel are preparing for war.   The war drums are beating so loudly that Europe is doing all it can to prevent a full blown war in the region — so it imposed yet another round of sanctions on Iran yesterday.  But how effective can sanctions be when Russia and China are more than willing to profit when the world tries to strangle Iran financially?

For example this past spring, China’s state-run oil company announced it would move forward on a $70 billion contract to purchase liquefied natural gas and develop the Yadavaran oil field in southwest Iran. Russia continues to sell Iran billions of dollars worth of nuclear technology as well as some of its most advanced radar and anti-aircraft weaponry.

With a war is breaking out in Georgia now — I’m wondering how much will this preoccupy Russia? Along with the situation in Georgia — China is hosting the Olympic Games for the next few weeks. So now, I’m pondering the Russian and Chinese factor — how will this play into the minds of military planners?

Until next time…