Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo said Thursday’s actions represent another step in our efforts to constrain Russia’s military capabilities.
U.S. President Donald Trump says he would have “no problem” selling the advanced F-35 fighter to the United Arab Emirates, despite objections from Israel.
U.S. Navy and Air Force troops joined with United Arab Emirates pilots recently to conduct training operations in the southern Persian Gulf. The training included using the expeditionary mobile base Lewis B. Puller as a staging platform to practice tracking and engaging simulated fast-attack craft.
The combined forces stormed an imaginary city, whose blocks of stand-alone houses, hotels and apartment complexes include an unfinished gas station with a sign for the fast-food chicken restaurant Popeyes on it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, as part of a Mideast tour aimed at strengthening ties between Moscow and this longtime U.S. ally amid tensions in the wider Persian Gulf.
The Abraham Lincoln, with its contingent of Navy escort warships and a fighting force of about 70 aircraft, is the centerpiece of the Pentagon’s response to what it calls Iranian threats to attack U.S. forces or commercial shipping in the Persian Gulf region.