August 17, 2026

The US is pulling its last aircraft carrier out of Asia. 

The USS George Washington has recently passed the Strait of Malacca on its way to the Middle East, where it will replace the USS Abraham Lincoln, a carrier that has already spent over 250 days at sea with 5,000 sailors aboard. The Associated Press put it bluntly: The "war against Iran is stretching the limits of US aircraft carriers and leaving the western Pacific without one of the key American warships." The waters have now become a zero-US-carrier zone.

This is not a routine rotation. A country that claims 11 active aircraft carriers is now being forced to pick a side between two oceans. Overstretching resources has finally put a hard choice on Washington's desk.

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