{"id":52413,"date":"2026-02-28T07:34:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T12:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=52413"},"modified":"2026-02-28T07:34:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T12:34:05","slug":"the-uss-gerald-r-ford-is-not-parked-near-iran-it-is-parked-off-israel-and-nobody-is-asking-the-only-question-that-matters-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=52413","title":{"rendered":"The USS Gerald R. Ford is not parked near Iran. It is parked off Israel. And nobody is asking the only question that matters: WHY?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The USS Gerald R. Ford is not parked near Iran. It is parked off Israel. And nobody is asking the only question that matters: why.<\/p>\n<p>The $13.3 billion crown jewel of the US Navy, the largest warship ever constructed, just positioned itself off Haifa. Not in the Arabian Sea where\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/auoq3g1CMa\">pic.twitter.com\/auoq3g1CMa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shanaka Anslem Perera \u26a1 (@shanaka86) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shanaka86\/status\/2027381369014481319?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}