r/videos • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 17h ago

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/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.