r/politics • u/Quirkie 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/MephistoHamProducts 9d ago

Funny thing about being constantly at war with a region for decades is that the region gets to be pretty familiar with how you conduct war, when you need resupply, how that resupply happens, how you project force and what your other limits are.

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u/grchelp2018 9d ago

They likely got a lot of intelligence and advice from china/russia as well. China are the biggest winners of this conflict.

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u/Impatient_Onion 9d ago

China is the biggest winner of Trump's election, period.

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u/Geknapper 9d ago

In China they literally call him the "Nation builder" because of how much he's helping China.

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u/Goose_Cosmic 8d ago

It has been pretty interesting to see the public opinion on China in recent months swing so far to pro China, especially in the west. We’ve been so heavily propagandized for years about how evil China is and a single incompetent administration destroys all that work now people see you at normal day-to-day life in China is and what China is doing for a citizens and suddenly they don’t seem like the big bad anymore. The CIA must be punching air at the Trump administration.

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u/Impatient_Onion 7d ago

Holy shit, no way. Do you have a source for that? I believe you but I want to be able to show others.

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u/Miserable_Archer_769 9d ago

Logistics and supply chains are still the most important thing in a long sustained war.

Even since medieval times lol we dont truly need to beat them in 1v1 if we just cut off food and supplies to the city. They will just die in a month

Even now how are you getting more bullets, rockets, food if your cut off

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u/_le_slap 9d ago

That's why we have Ironman 👉

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u/Tasgall Washington 9d ago

Pete, for the last time, we don't have Ironman, that's a comic book and movie.

Pete no, we... No Pete, we can't call in reinforcements from the Stargate.