Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is sending an amphibious assault ship, the USS Tripoli, and its Marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East, a senior U.S. official confirmed to Axios on Friday. Why it matters: The deployment will add thousands of Marines, several warships, and F-35 fighter jets to support those already in the region, the U.S. official said.
archive article: https://archive.is/Cqyia#selection-601.0-617.150
45 Comments
Redditsux@lemmy.world · 93 pts · 163d
This is the mission creep of this war. No clear objectives no exit strategy. Send more ships more troops.
mimavox@piefed.social · 25 pts · 163d
Gotta have a war going so no one talks about Epstein.
errer@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 163d
No better way to distract from raping hundreds of children than by murdering a few thousand brown ones
i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 163d
Not all of the American children will be brown, but they're probably poor and they will be praised for their bravery so people don't feel as bad,
Hegar@fedia.io · 8 pts · 163d
One of the gems of the latter simpsons episodes is grandpa mocking the complaints of an iraq war vet "It was too hot, the USO show was rob schneider, US objectives were and remain incomprehensible."
The same will apply here, except the uso show will be kid rock.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 163d
Without blowing another big hole in our budget, people might get the idea that we should start taxing the Epstein class to fund things like childcare, healthcare, education, scientific research, feeding, clothing and housing all our people, and updating/fixing our infrastructure here at home.
There is always going to be money to pay for bullshit like this in "defense" of 'merica, but anything done for actual people IN America will have to be means tested and always up for getting cut by the likes of idiots that thought "doge" was a good idea.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 48 pts · 163d
Nothing like a super uncoordinated halfassed deployment against the biggest adversary we have faced in 75 years all in the furtherance of a war with no objectives and no reason to even be happening apart from leadership that couldn't think of anything better to do.
crazycraw@crazypeople.online · 10 pts · 163d
"WOOO! 'merica!"
-red hatted idiots, probably
choui4@lemmy.zip · 32 pts · 163d
Jfc this is actually insane
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 163d
Marines, remember who you are fighting for...
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 163d
Bad archive site, that's the one that edits stored content and uses its visitors to DDoS a blog.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 163d
Don’t forget what you’re fighting for.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 163d
Not to mention giving the crazy xtian fucks their pipe dreams of having Jayzus come back on a cloud and rapture all these morons up while they get to watch other tortured horribly.
I mean, what a perfectly normal ethical system. It doesn't sound at all like a dream of a total psychopath, getting front row seats to others being tortured and reveling in the notion that they'd be tortured forever. By a loving god, because they didn't accept the highly-dubious truth claims and demented ethical system offered up in "the" bible....
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 163d
What will be this quagmire’s “Fortune Son” I wonder
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 19 pts · 163d
Pretty sure it's Fortunate Son.
13igTyme@piefed.social · 20 pts · 163d
"I ain't no rich pedophile's son." *Guitar riff
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 163d
https://youtu.be/P-sc0VcQwvQ
daychilde@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d
:eyes narrow:
Suspiciously close, but obviously not the one. lol
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 163d
??? I'm confused?
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 162d
Rickroll link I'm pretty sure.
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 163d
sandwich@piefed.social · 12 pts · 163d
Another Vietnam, for nothing. JFC.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 19 pts · 163d
No, not for nothing. For imperialism, for the Trump-Epstein files, for pork barrel politics, for the MIC, for oil.
Hegar@fedia.io · 13 pts · 163d
Also israel's foreign policy objectives.
dizzle18@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 163d
This shit makes Vietnam look like a well planned and thought out war.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 163d
This war is less popular than Vietnam
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d
When Vietnam got rolling, it was supported. And depending on when you consider it "starting", since the slide from France's imperialist aims over to being ours is more nuanced. We were "involved" by 1950. But starting in 1965, it looks like 59% thought the war was not a mistake.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1334328/vietnam-war-us-public-opinion-mistake/?__sso_cookie_checker=failed
vodka@feddit.org · 9 pts · 162d
bibbasa@piefed.social · 9 pts · 163d
great idea orange man, this is gonna be real popular come midterms!
EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 163d
National emergencies don’t require popularity when elections are canceled.
bibbasa@piefed.social · 7 pts · 163d
good thing elections are run by the states then
YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 163d
They're trying to fix that too; don't worry
bibbasa@piefed.social · 3 pts · 163d
in only a couple of months? when the entire republican establishment hates the guy? when his entire cabinet is incompetent cronies selected for loyalty and not expertise? when they can't even get the save act passed? and get rid of mail in voting? all of which primarily hurt rural voters? when we're looking at a dummymander in texas because all of trump's gains with latino voters are long gone now? when republicans in congress are screaming about a "bloodbath" at midterms? when legislators' terms end jan 20 2027, so even if red states cancel elections, their term as legislators ends and you end up with a bunch of vacancies in congress? when blue states still held elections and suddenly congress is all blue?
what you're describing would call for a constitutional amendment or a 50 state conspiracy so grand and organized that it would never happen in a million years. republicans can't even agree on the save act, the house rewrites it and thune says it's dead in the water. and even if they try to push it through, they'd need to end the filibuster, which thune says he won't do, which by the way, would only help democrats when they get back in power, just like with the nationwide injunction ruling.
this whole line about elections being rigged is very silly. the way you people talk about it sounds like you want elections to be rigged. trump is a demented orangutan, but somehow capable of a grand conspiracy with only slim margins in congress, when the republican establishment doesn't even like him, and has consistent dissenters on the republican side. and the courts are functioning pretty much the same as they were under biden. and he wasn't able to stop the 2025 elections, nor any of the special elections, all of which democrats are gaining by double digit points in every election.
demoralization is a form of anti-democratic propaganda you know.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d
I wonder if "JD" "Vance" supposedly being a doubter is part of the playbook.
If PEDOnald has to step down to health reasons, "JD" "Vance" looks like the "sensible" one by firing Hegseth and ending this unnecessary war. His poll numbers skyrocket, since he'll be the Republican that won't do all the excesses that PEDOnald had (except he will, he'll just be less stupid and brash about it. It will be much quieter but twice as devious).
In parallel, they stop talking about Epstein at all and won't even take questions about it...maybe one or two fall guys take the hit - perhaps Blondi. No one really big like PEDOnald sees any punishment whatsoever.
cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 163d
So they're really going for it, ey?
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 163d
Huh, I thought the war was over?
I mean, the war that wasn't really a war and many of his sycophantic apparatchiks were claiming would not have boots on the ground?
lemmyng@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 163d
AI slop has its fingerprints all over this
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 163d
At least they aren't coming to US cities.
Say "No!" to military service.
Dodge the draft.
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 163d
I bet they'll try to renact dday for some sick media footage.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 163d
They're definitely going to film them putting up a flag somewhere but it won't open the strait of Hormuz.
wuffah@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 163d
When you only have a hammer, everything is a nail.
orlyowl@piefed.ca · 6 pts · 163d
It's not the only tool he has, it's just the only one he wants to use.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 163d
In other news, polymarket has a new bet on the ratio that make it back alive.
Eggyhead@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 163d
I’d say, “why not ICE”, but the likelihood that they’d gleefully commit crimes against humanity as soon as their boots hit the soil makes me not wish ICE upon even America’s enemies.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 162d
But here's the upside. They're so incompetent that if they encounter armed opposition first it'd be like the SS going up against the Dutch or Norwegian military remnant resistance cells, that is to say abject slaughter.
baitu@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 163d
Without an internal opposition to back in Iran, I don’t see how the U.S. could win a war against the mullahs.