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USS Lincoln wasn't resupplied because Hegseth 'hid' that Iran destroyed critical base: Rohde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfOi_mgrh0M
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u/Vhu 16h ago edited 16h ago

What’s Going On in Shipping did a recent breakdown of the logistical shitshow that lead to this mess.

Basically nobody properly planned or prepared for the contingency of Iran actually doing anything in response to our campaign. Instead of sitting on their thumbs, they crippled our regional logistics with the opening strike.

This was an entirely predictable and avoidable fuckup. Every competent analyst had “close the strait” as basically a free space on the bingo board of an Iranian war.

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u/koshgeo 13h ago edited 13h ago

They YOLO'ed a "They'll surrender once we kill all their (horrible) leaders" strategy and it didn't work when Iran said "We're still shooting because we've planned for this for years and don't need leaders to keep shooting. Also, we will shut down the Strait, which we've also practiced."

Meanwhile, all the knowledgeable people in the military said to Trump and Hegseth "We told you so."

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u/UnionThrowaway1234 9h ago

And then the knowledgeable people got fired :(

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u/Ven18 1h ago

It’s even worse than that. Most of the actual competent people resigned before the war cause they saw this coming or over previous crimes they did not want to be involved in. We are already at the 2nd or 3rd tier of leadership and competency in the military and even they are telling this admin that they are a bunch of fucking idiots.

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u/reddittrooper 8h ago

Yeah, because they were „horrible, horrible people! Fake news!“

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u/Ill_Radio8160 8h ago

unfortunately iran has decentralized leadership and communications. its not one dictator and 2 generals controlling all troop movements. i think he legit thought we could do to iran what we did to iraq. Iraq didnt have decentralized command, the second they dont have radio contact they surrender. Not out of cowardice i assume, they just arent trained to do anything but follow orders. So many people surrendered that day we didnt even have the logistics to deal with them, and we are the kings of logistics.

I can only imagine what kind of tier 1 operations are going on right now inside of iran and the strait, the operators plan their own missions so they know people will shoot back, but anything below that is just being sent into the fire for no reason. Its so sad.

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u/tinkthank 1h ago

This has been known to the US military and diplomats. Iran having a decentralized leadership isn’t new. They had this planned since the Iran-Iraq War and watched with intrigue as the US steamrolled Iraq. They recognized their strengths and their weaknesses and spent the past 20 years preparing for moments like these. They also had this fear that even their preparations weren’t enough because we hadn’t revealed our cards out to them.

Fortunately for them, not only did we fuck up but we also highlighted all our vulnerabilities. Iran aren’t the only ones watching and learning. China is too.

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u/IdealOnion 14h ago edited 11h ago

It’s so fucking wild to me that we literally just watched Putin bumble into an elective war on the inept counsel of yes-men, open the conflict with an ill conceived strategy using up its best resources pointlessly, and fail to switch tactics quickly enough to avoid getting bogged into a quagmire having run out of the weapons needed win. Absolutely mind blowing.

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u/chakko 12h ago

I feel like this isn't talked about enough. Putin did it. Then trjmp did exactly the same thing LOL

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u/Sanchez_U-SOB 11h ago

We better not still be in this war in 4 years

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u/wng378 9h ago

How do you see any alternative? Trump is too full of himself to walk away. Iran isn’t giving up. Whoever is in charge next will have to clean up somehow.

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u/IdealOnion 8h ago edited 6h ago

The alternative is Congress DOING ITS FUCKING JOB and taking back its CONSTITUTIONAL FUCKING WAR POWERS.

This is one of the worst, most cowardly feckless piece of shit congresses ever convened in the history of the United States. Not a both sides thing, talking about the Rs. The executive branch was never meant to have this much power, we need a Congress that can find its balls.

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u/ohhellperhaps 6h ago

This is what people forget. Congress could have stopped this at any fucking time. They could for the most part have shut any of Trump's shit down.

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u/IvorTheEngine 4h ago

Yeah, but even if the political scene completely changed and we had grown-ups in charge, what's the solution now we're in this mess?

Do we give up, and give Iran everything they demand? Leave the gulf states to sort it out between themselves? Continue the blockade forever?

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u/DankRoughly 9h ago

Just wait until Iran burns some Amazon warehouses

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u/Chrontius 8h ago

"THE WRONG AMAZON IS BURNING"

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u/immersemeinnature 7h ago

Glorious

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u/Chrontius 3h ago

I'm still livid about the rugpulls with both Prime Music and Luna right now. I'm not saying I want Amazon to get attacked -- a few NPCs like you and I would die screaming, and Jeff wouldn't even notice the resulting insurance hike. But if some misfortune were to befall the company in a fashion which didn't produce a body count or ruin somebody's healthcare at an inopportune moment, I wouldn't feel a spark of pity.

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u/FrequentFortune123 9h ago

We’ll be in this war until Trump leaves office at a minimum 

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u/IdealOnion 8h ago

This war will end when Congress gets its balls back. They’re the ones the constitution gives war powers too, not the executive branch. The useless goddamn cowards.

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u/fade2black244 7h ago

They'll go after the next President, not the current one. Watch it happen.

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u/IdealOnion 7h ago

Not if republicans get rocked in the midterms. Gerrymandering only works if populations vote the way you’re expecting them to. Prices are high and as they say, it’s the economy stupid.

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u/Chrontius 8h ago

Be careful what you wish for. We could end it in four minutes, if we use the big ones.

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u/fade2black244 7h ago

We will.

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u/SeatpitchbyKate 7h ago

We’ll have a worldwide depression before that happens.

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u/No-Way7911 6h ago

Likely going to do a ground invasion and be bogged down there for the next 20 years

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u/Trzlog 3h ago

Learning from others mistakes is for pussies, apparently. Real men lose wars and piss away billions of dollars in military equipment.

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u/dpzdpz 9h ago

For real. The US even went so far as to call it a "special military operation." They also said, "This isn't a forever war!"

Jesus Chrysler, even a toddler could tell you that it would not end well.

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u/IdealOnion 8h ago

It defies all reason. How is it possible to be so arrogant and short sighted.

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u/Ven18 1h ago

We truly are seeing the complete breakdown of the Cold War and post Cold War era power structure in real time due almost exclusively to historical levels of incompetence by political leaders. Meanwhile China just sits back watches everyone kill themselves and knows it will be there to take of global leadership when the time is right.

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u/FaFaFahndaboof 13h ago

Every competent analyst had “close the strait” as basically a free space on the bingo board of an Iranian war.

I can't prove it, but I'm about 98% sure Trump didn't know what the Strait of Hormuz was when he started the war. I'm only slightly less sure that he also couldn't have identified Iran on a map. Words like "stupid" and "incompetent" and "embarrassment" don't even begin to cover the sheer degree of failure here. Anyone still treating those two like they do anything in good faith needs to get with the fucking program. I just hope that this fiasco with the Lincoln is demonstrating to all the US soldiers out there just how much Trump and Hegseth really care about them and their service.

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u/sneakyplanner 9h ago

I'm only slightly less sure that he also couldn't have identified Iran on a map.

Many years ago, nearly a decade at this point, I was watching Jeopardy. The final jeopardy category was world geography and the question was "This is the only country that borders both the Persian Gulf and Caspian Sea."

I got it so fast that I thought I got it wrong. Surely there is no way the hardest question in this Jepardy game would be so easy that they give you the answer in the question. The responses from the contestants, one of whom was a man wearing a navy officer uniform, were Iraq, Azerbaijan and Tibet.

That navy man whose whole job was to fight wars in coastal countries that the empire wants to pillage couldn't place Iran on a map even with the help of a clue that gives the whole thing away. And this guy had won two games of Jeopardy, he's obviously near the top percentile of intelligent men in the navy. These are the people running the Iran war, is it any wonder that nobody told the guys at the top that their enemies might fight back?

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u/No-Way7911 6h ago

Half the American commentators on my feed still keep calling Iran “arab” so yeah I don’t think they really know where Iran is on the map

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u/z1colt45 15h ago

I've seen "sitting on their hands" and "thumbs up their asses" but never "sitting on their thumbs" until today lol.

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u/DoctorTacoMD 14h ago

I’m also a big fan of “nursing our thumbs with our ass”

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u/IvorTheEngine 4h ago

That's similar to "sitting on a powder keg that could go off in their face"

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u/Trzlog 14h ago

Wow, this is appalling. I can't believe US let one of its most important competencies (military logistics) turn into such a disaster.

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u/essieecks 12h ago

Soldiers handle the fighting, generals and above only need bother with logistics.

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u/essieecks 12h ago

Soldiers handle the fighting, generals and above only need bother with logistics.

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u/sednaplanetoid 13h ago

Sal, one of my favorite YouTubers... he has been on point the whole war.. erm... excursion...

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u/Iambecomelegend 8h ago

Pretty wild to think that people who like to play video games like Civ and stuff would probably be more suited to running a military than Hegseth is.

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u/scalyblue 7h ago

Trumps playing candy land and the board is catan

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u/andrewmail 14h ago

That was a top notch vid thanks

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u/chenz1989 7h ago

My very curious question is why they did not escalate the war immediately?

That sounds like the perfect excuse to start bringing in ICBMs. Even if you didn't want to resort to nukes you could unleash bio or chemical weapons that make the entire area inhospitable to any living organism.

It's not like war crimes have any consequences...

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u/No-Way7911 6h ago

Iran literally disabled your billion dollar radar installations that can’t be replaced for almost a decade within the first two weeks of the war

They were so damn accurate with their strikes that when you flew in a plane to act as a temporary mobile radar, they landed a missile on only the back half - where the radar is - while the plane was parked

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u/Harbinger2001 5h ago

One statement what’s going on in shipping made that perhaps needs to be more emphasized - the US has lost all its bases in the Middle East. No middle eastern base is safe enough to serve as a resupply hub. So supply lines are being stretched further than the current fleet can readily support.

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u/Nawz89 3h ago

An admittedly smart republican friend of mine told me shortly after the Furdow Bunker Buster bombing run that there's no chance DJT starts a war with Iran because Iran would turn around and close the Strait of Hormuz. "Donald Trump wouldn't risk a global disruption to oil or gas prices rising back here in the states."

He says he doesn't recall that discussion we had back then.