"(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) President Donald Trump's Board of Peace is convening with a carefully curated guest list: Gulf monarchies with deep pockets and regional clout, smaller European allies without the baggage of Berlin or Paris, governments comfortable operating through executive channels and direct bargains. The agenda is stability, normalization, reconstruction. The optics are intentional. So is what's happening offshore. While the Board meets, the Pentagon has repositioned carrier strike groups into the Persian Gulf, added thousands of troops, fighter aircraft, and guided-missile destroyers."
"Reuters reports U.S. officials are preparing for potentially weeks-long sustained operations against Iran not a one-off strike, but a campaign. The same officials expect retaliation and extended exchanges. Trump, speaking at Fort Bragg, put it plainly: Sometimes you have to have fear. A Board of Peace convenes with communiques and handshakes. A carrier strike group arrives with a different vocabulary. Both are aimed at the same region. Both are meant to be seen."
President Donald Trump's Board of Peace convenes with a guest list of wealthy Gulf monarchies and smaller European allies suited to executive, direct bargains. The agenda centers on stability, normalization, and reconstruction. Concurrently, the Pentagon has repositioned carrier strike groups into the Persian Gulf and deployed thousands of troops, fighter aircraft, and guided-missile destroyers. Satellite imagery shows F-15E Strike Eagles and electronic warfare jets at Jordanian air bases that lacked those aircraft weeks earlier. U.S. officials are preparing for potentially weeks-long sustained operations against Iran and expect retaliation and extended exchanges. Several key Western allies declined to participate.
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