🇬🇧 British aircraft carrier will not be sent to Middle East, say officials

Britain has scrapped contingency plans to send the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales to the Middle East following Donald Trump’s mocking of Sir Keir Starmer for supposedly wanting to join the war with Iran after it had already been “won”.

British officials said that the carrier, currently in Portsmouth, was not being prepared for Iran-related activity and Downing Street said there was “no decision to deploy her”.

The news came after the Ministry of Defence put the ship and its crew in a state of high readiness to set sail within five days, a move confirmed in a statement on Saturday in relation to Britain’s military build-up in the Middle East.

“HMS Prince of Wales has always been on very high readiness and we are increasing the preparedness of the carrier, reducing the time it would take to set sail for any deployment,” the MoD said on Saturday.

Some British officials now claimed there was never any plan to send the carrier to the Middle East and that it is instead being prepared for Nato operations, with a deployment to the Arctic scheduled.

But other UK officials maintained that the sudden change in readiness was ordered last week to give the government an option to deploy the warship to the eastern Mediterranean or beyond, towards the Middle East.

Britain’s other carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, is currently being refitted and is therefore unable to be deployed.

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🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸 The U.S. military has lost two more MQ-9 Reaper drones during Operation Epic Fury in Iran, bringing the total lost to 11 drones.

The 11 drones lost are worth over $330 million in total.

Source: CBS News

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — President Trump told CBS News that the war against Iran could be over soon, saying the U.S. is “very far” ahead of his initial 4-5-week estimated time frame.

I think the war is very complete, pretty much. They have no navy, no communications, they’ve got no Air Force.

📈 The S&P 500 erased all losses incurred since Trump started the war with Iran after Trump's recent statement that the war with Iran is "near completed".

📝: Trump is saying anything that would calm the markets down. There's no hints the U.S. is preparing to call the quits. Recall that Trump told medias in Israel that the war will continue as long as Benjamin Netanyahu wants. Nothing which Trump says can be taken at face value because its most certainly a lie.

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🇨🇳🛢 The only vessels that are crossing the Hormuz Strait are Chinese and Iranian tankers.

The Strait has not been reopened nor did any ship captain follow U.S. president, Donald Trump's call to cross the Straits.

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🇮🇷⚔️🇮🇱 The IRGC Public Relations stated that any European or Arab country which expels the Israeli and American ambassadors from its territory will be given safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

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🇺🇸❗️🇨🇺 — The United States is offering the Castros in Cuba the same thing that was offered to Nicolás Maduro before the military action: a guarantee of exile if they leave power.

🇺🇸❗️🇨🇺 — U.S. President Donald Trump stated that the “takeover” of Cuba could be friendly or “not friendly.”

🇨🇳❌🇹🇼 — Chinese Dictator Xi Jinping wanted to invade Taiwan in 2024, but his vice-chairman Zhang Youxia dissuaded him, says the former Japanese minister of defense.

📝 If this is true, it means the risk of China invading Taiwan this year is higher than we think.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷❗️ — US President Donald Trump vows to make an wave of attacks 20x bigger against Iran if it closes the Strait of Hormuz:

If Iran does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of America TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they have been hit thus far.

Additionally, we will take out easily destroyable targets that will make it virtually impossible for Iran to ever be built back, as a Nation, again — Death, Fire, and Fury will reign upon them — But I hope, and pray, that it does not happen!

This is a gift from the United States of America to China, and all of those Nations that heavily use the Hormuz Strait.

Hopefully, it is a gesture that will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

President DONALD J. TRUMP