• MeowZedong@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    30·
    7 days ago

    “…following unprovoked attacks on innocent mariners by Iranian-backed Houthis,” Central Command added.

    Maybe they just felt like it. I bet they also didn’t offer any warnings or demands that would lead to them stopping those unprovoked attacks.

  • Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    7 days ago

    The article says that “the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt will head to the Middle East to maintain a presence in the region”.

    So it looks like it could be a routine ship swap. But if that were the case, I’d expect NPR to emphasize that in the article, and they don’t. They mention the other ship one time and then the rest of the article is talking about how the Houthis are doing lots of attacks.

    I’m just confused about this article from a propaganda perspective, I guess. Is it trying to say “the Ike has done good work, it’s time for it to come home and be replaced by another ship, no worries, the US rocks, we have this under control” or is it trying to say “the Houthis are terrifying, they’re an absolute menace and our smol bean navy is trying valiantly to keep the strait safe, but we have to bring home our carrier because the Houthis are just too scary”?

    Because this article seems to gesture in both of those directions, and they’re pretty contradictory.

    • SwitchyWitchyandBitchy [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      7 days ago

      Another article I read mentioned that the navy said it was the most intense deployment since WW2. Reading between the lines, my hypothesis is that the ship, the planes, the pilots, and sailors are all tired. Equipment is breaking, systems are inoperative for too long, and the crew is getting more injury and mistake prone.

      If Answer Allah actually managed to score a hit, that would be an amazing accomplishment by them. But until I see evidence, I think it has just reached the limit of what it can accomplish without rest for the crew and repairs/maintenance/restocking back at home.

      • Vncredleader [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        I mean what has the navy had to do since WW2? Combat wise Korea had nothing really, Vietnam had small patrol craft, there was the Cuban blockade I guess, Iraq the most use we got out of them was using our remaining Battleship to launch missiles, Afghanistan is landlocked.

    • cosecantphi [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      17·
      7 days ago

      That one cool astronaut that uses Hexbear and .ml woke up this morning feeling groggy, having the previous night raided the emergency medicine cabinent for fun drugs while waiting for mission control to come up with a fix. They slept like shit, their still tired, still dissociating about the thought of whether or not this worsening incident will be the worst disaster in spaceflight history. Whether this is the thing that ends their lives.

      They saw this thread, and clicked on it, their eyes wide and awash with hope that Boeing figured it out while they were asleep. That somehow the news got to them through Hexbear first. The ship is coming home! We’re getting off this piece of shit station. We get to say goodbye to breathing this shitty recycled air that smells like a mixture of all the worst smells you associate with your some of your coworkers.

      Expands post

      Oh, I’m still in a life threatening ongoing emergency alongside all my astronaut and cosmonaut friends. We may still die yet! It’s actually just the genocide ship going home, the genocide sailors are getting a bit tired of doing genocide, so they’re taking a break from all this helping to do a genocide stuff.