Interview last night with Gen. D. Hokanson where he states "65,000 National Guard soldiers and airmen that are on duty today".
As of Jan 4, there were 8 out of 10 carrier fleets returned to US stations.
Patriot missiles reportedly deployed to DC, and and EO Protecting The United States From Certain Unmanned Aircraft Systems
You would need to be retarded at this point to thing this kind of force allocation is about protests. This is something else.
They're almost always home, other than the one at Diego Garcia, and the one in Japan, because there's no hot war going on.
https://maps.southfront.org/conflict/us-carrier-strike-groups-locations/?filter=TIMELINE
There was 3 posted in the South China sea area last November, and a fourth in Japan. At the same time 2 more were in the Arabian peninsula. I can see the other 4 posted in N.America being normal I guess.
Only having 1 fleet close to China at a time of tension like this though is a little weird. Having 5 within strike distance of Washington is even weirder.
Where do you get that info from? All I see is two away from home all month.
The cause of the tension will be gone tomorrow.
It was all over the news my dude. Taiwan received from 180 surface to air missile batteries and 200+ surface to sea batteries from the US in December. Around early January the fleets were returned home. Usually there is always a fleet around Guam or Japan.
The only reason tension would go away is if the US bent the knee to China and let Taiwan get invaded, which isn't happening because there is currently a US Coastguard group assisting Taiwanese navy as we speak.
I suggest you look into the mutual defense agreements Pompeo made with a shit ton of Asian countries last September/October.
It doesn't take an entire carrier group to deliver a few SAMs, and you said November, not December. Either way, the maps I linked to disagree with you, and I trust them more than some anonymous commenter on the internet.
Or if there's a president who isn't an asshole.
The only reference I can find is Pompeo talking about an MDT signed with the Philippines in 1951...