The remarkable characteristic of the U.S. deployment of at least six B-2 stealth bombers to Diego Garcia is that, despite its visibility, neither the White House nor the Pentagon has officially confirmed it. “To my knowledge, this is the largest B-2 deployment to a forward location,” Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, told independent journalist Ken Klippenstein.
“All the bombers, they’re not in hangers, they’re underneath satellites where they can be photographed and seen; and the idea is, do you see our sword?” retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt, who served as Deputy U.S. Military Representative to NATO, said in an interview with Newsmax last week. Holt also said that the B-2 deployment “gives the President a military option that he can actually use these weapons against Iran if needed.”
This is a highly visible threat to Tehran, but at least one party isn’t supposed to notice: the American people, Klippenstein comments in his article posted yesterday. According to Google Trends, Klippenstein reports, searches for terms like “B-2” and “war with Iran” have only modestly increased, indicating that public curiosity has been suppressed despite President Donald Trump’s many threats to attack his enemies.
