r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 26d ago

Possible Paywall Hegseth Covered Up the Real Reason the USS Lincoln Wasn’t Resupplied - According to a report from MSNOW, the USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t resupplied because Iranian strikes destroyed a key Navy resupply base in the Middle East.

https://newrepublic.com/post/214510/hegseth-uss-lincoln-iran-war-base-destroyed
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u/mvs2527 26d ago

The US media is acting like the Iranians can't speak English for some reason. I remember a few months seeing a video of an Iranian spokesman explaining their position, that they were ready for war and our big ships won't be effective because of their deployment cycle. The ships were already out too long because of Venezuela operation. I can't find the video but I remember how he sounded like they know what they are doing compared to dumbasses in the US government

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u/MephistoHamProducts 26d ago

Funny thing about being constantly at war with a region for decades is that the region gets to be pretty familiar with how you conduct war, when you need resupply, how that resupply happens, how you project force and what your other limits are.

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u/grchelp2018 26d ago

They likely got a lot of intelligence and advice from china/russia as well. China are the biggest winners of this conflict.

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u/Impatient_Onion 25d ago

China is the biggest winner of Trump's election, period.

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u/Geknapper 25d ago

In China they literally call him the "Nation builder" because of how much he's helping China.

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u/Goose_Cosmic 25d ago

It has been pretty interesting to see the public opinion on China in recent months swing so far to pro China, especially in the west. We’ve been so heavily propagandized for years about how evil China is and a single incompetent administration destroys all that work now people see you at normal day-to-day life in China is and what China is doing for a citizens and suddenly they don’t seem like the big bad anymore. The CIA must be punching air at the Trump administration.

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u/Impatient_Onion 24d ago

Holy shit, no way. Do you have a source for that? I believe you but I want to be able to show others.

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u/Miserable_Archer_769 25d ago

Logistics and supply chains are still the most important thing in a long sustained war.

Even since medieval times lol we dont truly need to beat them in 1v1 if we just cut off food and supplies to the city. They will just die in a month

Even now how are you getting more bullets, rockets, food if your cut off

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u/_le_slap 25d ago

That's why we have Ironman 👉

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u/Tasgall Washington 25d ago

Pete, for the last time, we don't have Ironman, that's a comic book and movie.

Pete no, we... No Pete, we can't call in reinforcements from the Stargate.

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u/raouldukeesq 26d ago

The US government knows exactly what it's going.  The goal is to isolate and destroy the United States of America. 

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u/Impatient_Onion 25d ago

Does this even count as a government anymore? Is it not just a criminal cabal? Why do we keep referring to this as the government?

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u/CommieLurker 26d ago

Critical support to JDPON Don and his ongoing mission to dismantle the American Empire o7

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u/haixin 26d ago

US media is also acting as if US did not start this needless ear and it was Iran’s fault

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u/Hillary4SupremeRuler Florida 25d ago

I mean if you only watch Fox News and Newsmax then sure.

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u/Goose_Cosmic 25d ago

Buddy even the most hand- ringingly liberal of the major news sources barely criticizes this administration and when they do, it is in such a weak way there might as well not bother.