Joe Biden took to the White House on Tuesday afternoon to reiterate the United States' unwavering support for Israel, both military and diplomatic. Frozen with fear, the American president cannot back down in the face of this new international crisis which, like the stalemate in Afghanistan and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, seems to distract him from his top priority, the standoff with China. The tragedy in the Levant strikes at the heart of U.S. interests: as he confirmed on Monday, 11 U.S. citizens have been killed in the fighting and several others are "probably" Hamas hostages in Gaza's tunnels, along with an unspecified number of missing.
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In response to the thunderclap, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced on Sunday the deployment of a carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean that includes the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78). Equipped with 75 fighter-bombers and a crew of 5000 men, this gigantic ship...
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