Tommy Vitor

Regardless, the U.S.

has accumulated a truly massive amount of military assets in the Middle East.

So in January, remember, Trump sent the USS Abraham Lincoln from the South China Sea to the Gulf.

That is an aircraft carrier that comes with three guided missile destroyers and 5,700 or so sailors.

Then Trump ordered our largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, to the Middle East.

They had been deployed in the Caribbean as part of the Venezuela operation.

The Ford also travels with three destroyers and about 5,000 more troops.

I think that brings the total to like 14 Navy ships in the region.

There's also a guided missile submarine floating around there somewhere.

I'm not sure if that's part of the 14 or not.

On top of that, the U.S.

has sent

50 additional fighter jets, AWACS command and control planes, the EA-18G Growler planes that do electronic warfare.

And then according to the AP, 85 fuel tankers, 170 cargo planes, more missile defense systems.

And then on Monday, the U.S.

Embassy in Lebanon ordered all non-essential staff to leave the country.

So, Ben.

Long wind up there.

But my question is, what do you think Trump's goal is here?

And like there, I think there's a lot of people who feel like when you assemble this much military hardware, like kind of on the brink of war, it almost becomes inevitable that is going to happen.