USS Lincoln wasn't resupplied because Hegseth 'hid' that Iran destroyed main U.S. base: Rohde

a day ago by spaghettiwestern to c/progressivepolitics

President Trump continues to say that Iran wants to make a deal to end the war and that the U.S. has control over the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, the president downplayed concerns about the conditions aboard the USS Lincoln. MS NOW Senior National Security Reporter David Rohde and New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker join Stephanie Ruhle with more details and analysis.

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Waffelmeister 18 points a day ago

I always though the US-Military is almost allmighty. It's nice to see there are clear limitations to their power.

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gwl 6 points 17 hours ago

Honestly, their K/D/A ratio is pretty shockingly bad, also they've quite a few times been feeding (trained Osama, to sick him on another country they didn't like, Osama came back to bite them in the ass. Gave support to a military Junta by a fascist military, that gov came back to bite them in the ass. Etc etc)

They just have an incredibly good propaganda arm, that makes them look more mighty than they are

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kestrel7_7 6 points 16 hours ago

The only massive wars the USA ever actually won were the Civil War (against ourselves, doesn't count) and WWII (when we had almost the entire goddamn world on our side). We got like a participation trophy for WWI. Other than that, it's all been colonialist bullshit oppression of smaller/weaker countries, there's never been a direct conflict with another major industrialized country.

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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 2 points 15 hours ago

I would argue it won the cold war, in a largely peaceful way.

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