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The United States Department of Defense has announced that it is deploying the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LHA-7) along with a Marine Amphibious Ready Group and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit to the Middle East.
With the Iran blitz, the message to smaller and military states is shaping up to be this: ‘build the damn bomb – if not legally, then the way Pakistan did in the 1970s’.
Manish Rai is a geopolitical analyst and columnist for the Middle East and Af-Pak region.
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