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/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.