RT Amerikanets 📉 (@ripplebrain)In the lead up to this operation, which has been in the works for weeks, US planners correctly understood that our bases in the region are indefensible. They decided to evacuate them, but there are tens of thousands of American service members in the Middle East. What do you do with them? You can't send your entire force back home in the middle of the largest military confrontation in years. Airlifting everyone to a country out of range of Iranian missiles, like Egypt or Turke ...