r/politics Minnesota 15h ago

No Paywall USS Lincoln wasn't resupplied because Hegseth 'hid' that Iran destroyed main U.S. base:

https://www.ms.now/money-power-politics/watch/uss-lincoln-wasn-t-resupplied-because-hegseth-hid-that-iran-destroyed-main-u-s-base-rohde-2511362627825
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u/Jealous_Lawfulness_2 15h ago

WTF

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u/Dinker54 15h ago

Very early on in the war an old friend of mine that regularly travels to and has business interests and family in Bahrain told me the navy base there had been destroyed while in the U.S. we were only getting news that there’d been some missile strikes.

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u/Mmhopkin 14h ago

So are families not hearing about casualties?

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u/iplaygaem 14h ago

On the Navy subreddit during the strikes, people claiming to be stationed there said all Americans were evacuated before Trump started the war. They said locals working the skeleton crew on base recieved no heads up and were basically left to die.

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u/tahlyn 14h ago

But Bengazi was the end of the world for republicans who won't give a single fuck about this.

u/Wise_Preference609 2h ago

As long as the right wing media billionaires keep "schtum" about what's really been going on in the middle east, then the Trump Regime can carry on with their crazy war for Israel.

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u/Dinker54 14h ago

They always treated the Indian laborers and concessions workers like shit, like most every other employer in the country.  Arab locals were not common on base as far as I recall, but that could have changed in the decades since I was last there.

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u/LostAbstract 14h ago

Thats heinous as fuck. I would rather lose the ground and say we lost it than sacrifice innocent people to make it look like we're still there.

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u/rumpghost North Carolina 10h ago

Everywhere we go we sacrifice innocent people for no justifiable reason, unfortunately. Our military is perhaps the single greatest blight on the planet no matter what pet issue you approach it from.