Something is in the wind and it’s causing countries like Canada to plan for mass evacuations of their citizens from Lebanon.
Here’s the reports:
Senior Canadian Officials alongside Military Planners are reportedly in the process of Establishing an Evacuation Operation for the roughly 45,000 Canadian Nationals currently in Lebanon, for if a Full-Scale War were to occur between Hezbollah and Israel. pic.twitter.com/LUWDt4IeMu
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) June 21, 2024
Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly has informed Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz that Canada is preparing for the potential evacuation of 45,000 Canadian citizens from Lebanon amid fears of war. Joly added that Canada has already deployed military forces to the region to… pic.twitter.com/MUTSt9VoGq
— IntelSky (@Intel_Sky) June 21, 2024
It’s not just Canada. Kuwait is asking all its citizens in Lebanon to leave immediately:
BREAKING: Kuwait asks its citizen to immediately leave from Lebanon — Al Arabiya
— حسن سجواني 🇦🇪 Hassan Sajwani (@HSajwanization) June 21, 2024
Meanwhile there are also reports that the US is moving ships around, sending an aircraft carrier to the Mediterranean while the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower is leaving the Red Sea and also transiting to the Mediterranean. The article below suggests that Ike is coming home, so I’m not sure why it’s heading for the Mediterranean.
Aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) is set to depart the Red Sea while a carrier currently on station in the Pacific is planned to head to the Middle East to continue a U.S. presence mission in the region, USNI News has learned.
While Ike and its cruiser escort will transit to the Mediterranean Sea, the destroyer escorts will stay in U.S. 5th Fleet, a U.S. official told USNI News on Friday. Additionally, flight spotters tracked Eisenhower’s C-2A Greyhound detachment flying from the U.S. 5th Fleet base in Bahrain to the Mediterranean.
The decision comes as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin elected not to extend the Navy’s second-oldest carrier for a third time, the official confirmed. As of Friday, the carrier had been deployed for more than eight months. USNI News reported earlier this month Ike has deployed for more days than any other U.S.-based carrier for the last five years.
“Time to bring them home,” the official said.
It’s unclear which carrier from the Pacific would move to the Middle East to take over the operations from Ike. The U.S. official would not confirm the Pacific carrier to USNI News when asked. The closest, according to USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker, is USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) which deployed from San Diego, Calif., in January.
The last time a Pacific carrier deployed to the Middle East was in 2021 when the U.S. evacuated troops from Afghanistan.
It sounds like there is great fear that Israel is about to unleash on Lebanon. I think they absolutely should given the daily missile strikes from Hezbollah. These countries are smart to want their people to leave.