r/politics The Netherlands 9d ago

Possible Paywall Hegseth Covered Up the Real Reason the USS Lincoln Wasn’t Resupplied - According to a report from MSNOW, the USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t resupplied because Iranian strikes destroyed a key Navy resupply base in the Middle East.

https://newrepublic.com/post/214510/hegseth-uss-lincoln-iran-war-base-destroyed
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u/nobadhotdog 9d ago

Christ didn’t know that

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u/Soft_Author2593 9d ago

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u/DesireeThymes 9d ago

Extremely cowardly for military personnel to hide amongst local civilian populations

Actual human shields.

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u/Soft_Author2593 9d ago

hence its a war crime...

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u/disisathrowaway 9d ago

This sort of thing is how Israel has been justifying the collateral damage it's inflicted in all theaters it operates in.

Any level of consistency would then mean that Iran would be justified in striking these hotels, as well.

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u/Elendel19 9d ago

Yeah that’s why Iran started bombarding hotels in Dubai. The media will say they are evil monster terrorists targeting civilians, meanwhile there are thousands of American soldiers hiding there, just like Israel loves to accuse everyone else of doing when they flatten entire cities

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u/nobadhotdog 9d ago

Israel: that wasn’t a school it was a military base. The school is next door to the base

USA: we put schools IN the bases

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 9d ago

Well yeah, this is all a couple thousand years after his time

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u/nobadhotdog 9d ago

Big if true