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.
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...
It's a little weird this is a debate... but ok.
Here - from July 2020 is an article confirming carrier presence. "But that's from July! Not November!", right? Except they were there throughout November, along with the regularly stationed fleet around Guam/Japan... making that 4 fleets around China. For sure 3 were recalled between December and early January.
There were also 2 stationed around the Arabian peninsula , of which 1 was recalled.
Here is one article about the agreement with India which took me about 10 seconds to google.
This isn't hard information to find.
Except it's not about the US President, it's about China's aggression in the South Pacific and for some weird fucked up reason you have no idea about it but you are acting like you are discussing this from an informed position, which you don't have, and your ability to source news from the internet is doesn't seem very good.
China has been fucking with Indian banking systems, and literally having fist fights with Indian soldiers in Indian territory. China is demonstrating aggression towards Russia over Vladivostok, creating tension with Vietnam over Macao, and even creating diplomatic tension with Australia which I'm pretty sure doesn't have the US President as their leader.
I'm also pretty sure you don't know how many times Xi has announced China is prepared for war with the USA, or their illegitimate claims on sovereign nations and territories China somehow thinks is relevant.
But hey, this is a debate about locating US Carrier fleets anyhow, and right now there is 5 parked around Washington and that is indisputable.