Domestic military flights versus hardware moving at this scale into the Middle East or to Taiwan isn't really comparable. At the same time we are getting colour revolution riots, a massive media psy-op calling for regime change and Trump even saying that he is considering bombing Iran into regime change like they did Syria if even a single protestor is killed.

Maybe nothing ever happens, but why move planes into the Middle East in conjunction with all the other soundbites if you aren't going to use them. Iran is going to get bombed again like they did last June, the question is merely when.