More US Marines and warships are being deployed to the Middle East, two officials confirmed to CBS News, the BBC’s US partner.

The officials said the reinforcements were to come from an amphibious ready group and its Marine expeditionary unit, with one official adding that the group would be led by the Japan-based USS Tripoli, an amphibious assault ship.

The unit headed by the USS Tripoli typically consists of around 5,000 sailors and Marines distributed across several warships.

The development comes as Donald Trump said US forces had “totally obliterated” Iranian military infrastructure on Kharg Island in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway for global oil shipping.

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      With some of the worst education systems of all, they probably don’t think much at all. Recently (a few days or weeks ago), Florida made teaching university sociology a crime. They promised them big easy pay and ‘thanked’ them ‘for their ‘service’’, then turned around and cut veterans’ pay (and benefits) like Milton Friedman cut school budgets into his personal pockets. Not surprisingly, their economy has a (opioid-style of) dependency of burying itself in campaigns of more debt of unsolicited military aggression, expropriative extraction of land, minerals, gunpoint-based cheap labor, and snake oil artificial ‘intelligence’ (i.e. statistical inference software), like a cancerous body turning on itself. However, like Milton Friedman’s accomplices Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher refused to acknowledge, There are many alternatives! (like putting words on internet forums in the name of a pseudonym for high-quality free paid education work (because studying is work, and work is to be paid in a society that respects itself, some ‘more normal’ countries actually pay their students to study (e.g. Denmark, etc.))