In a wide-ranging conversation with EIR, a retired Italian military source said he is convinced that the current crisis with Iran was planned from the beginning as a move to preempt an Israeli action. However, this time all Arab countries reacted, and Israel itself got cold feet. “If Israel does something that the U.S. doesn’t like, they can forget to refill their military hardware,” he said.
The source, who has a deep knowledge of Russian, Chinese, and NATO realities, said that U.S. President Donald Trump’s action on Iran is not favored by the Pentagon, as he cannot move carrier fleets around the globe. The U.S. Navy is already overstretched. They no longer control the entire Pacific anymore. So Trump moves a fleet from the Pacific into the Gulf, leaving an empty space that someone else will fill. Although the U.S. strategic posture says that the United States can no longer support this overstretching, Trump is doing the opposite.
