Larry Johnson's Sonar21:
What is the Pentagon thinking? The US air craft carrier, the Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), reportedly has departed the Persian Gulf and is returning to its home port in the US. In its place, the Pentagon deployed six B-52s to Qatar:Tactically, this is insane. If the war between Israel and Iran escalates and the United States decides to get involved, those planes are sitting ducks. Deployment is nothing more than an act of political theater, a symbolic gesture with no tactical intent. Here's the problem — do the Iranians know that? Put yourself in the shoes of an Iranian general who has the job of preparing contingencies. A competent professional would have to assume that those planes have a potential hostile intent and the Iranian planners would be tasked to draw up plans for eliminating that threat. Is that what the Pentagon is doing? Trying to bait Iran into attacking US assets?

I am pretty sure that the Iranians are talking to the Russians and asking a simple question — what would Putin do?

https://sonar21.com/b-52s-in-qatar-what-is-the-pentag..