Financial Times: The USS Abraham Lincoln, one of the US’s 11 aircraft carriers, entered Middle Eastern waters this week after an 11-day transit from the South China Sea. Its arrival highlights Donald Trump’s escalating threats to strike Iran for the second time in less than a year.
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“This looks like the US is planning to use military force”, both offensively and defensively, said Seth Jones, a former Pentagon and US special operations official. “What is less clear [are] the objectives.”…