USS Nimitz

USS Nimitz

Perfect Bait for a False Flag

The USS Nimitz is sailing into the Middle East again. If you know your history, that sentence should worry you. Not necessarily because an aircraft carrier is being sent to “promote peace”, whatever that means, but because the Nimitz is pretty ancient at this point. This ship was made during the Cold War, and it’s set to be decommissioned within a year, but instead it’s going to be parked in the middle of a proverbial hornet’s nest.

The Nimitz is one of the oldest active warships the U.S. Navy possesses, having been built back in 1975. That means it’s older than most of the sailors on board it. It might still look impressive with its huge flight deck and being shadowed by its entourage of destroyers, but the truth is it’s not equipped to deal with modern warfare threats. Especially not hypersonic missiles or drone swarms.

Iran has already shown its hypersonic missile capability and that it has access to swarms of kamikaze drones that can bypass traditional naval defenses. The public knows this, so obviously the Pentagon does as well.

So why would you sail a vulnerable, obsolete ship with over 1,000 American personnel into a region teetering on all-out war?

Because sacrificing it would be really convenient.

Decommissioning the Nimitz isn’t a small task.

The estimates for dismantling a nuclear-powered carrier like this can range up to $1 billion. So…if it were to meet an “unfortunate” end by being, say, destroyed in a sudden “unprovoked” attack by a convenient enemy, not only would that save the U.S. a huge sum, but it would also hand the MIC the one thing it always needs: a casus belli.