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Because a resupply base was destroyed.
Saved you a click.
Feels like western media also seriously downplayed how much Iran blew shit up
Even more so, they did not cover how defenseless the bases were. This might shock many but Trump and Kegbreath started a war with Iran without first allowing the military to prepare. I swear, I'm not lying.
Important point. What else would you expect from two people whose entire careers until recently were tv personalities?
The Ukrainians really lucked out with that one.
What they got would be like us getting Jon Stewart. Instead we got The Donald.
Yeah they...
'We' lost a THAAD radar array on I think literally day one.
Costs like a billion dollars, or two billion, or something, fucking cost plus accounting, I don't know!
(If you say an M1A2 Abrams costs approximately $20 million, well then thats 50 to 100 Abrams... or, roughly 1 to 2 entire Combined Arms Battalions)
Thats the thing that tells 'our' missle defense/interceptor missles 'oi bruv you got incoming', where to go, when to fire, which THAAD interceptor launching platform in what location should fire at which incoming.
Kind of an insanely huge deal.
The 'Golden Dome' got its eyes and brain obliterated, on day one.
So... 'our' entire missle defense strategy at that point was 'oh fuck, scramble together everything that can /maybe/ hit some of the shit THAAD is designed to hit, and also go to South Korea and dismantle their THAAD system so we can repair the one Iran blew up.
Trying to analogize this... Imagine its the Battle of Britain, and Germany manages to throw V1s at every single radar site in the UK, and wholly destroy them, on day one.
Its roughly that bad.
That's because they're incompetent.
However, they are clearly quite skilled at protecting pedophiles.
It's not a high bar to clear
Have they played any simulator games. Don't start a fight until you're prepared. Politically, financially, militarily, and even environmentally.
Honestly, I am expecting the millennial generation and onwards to be much more adept at running the nation. Playing roguelikes, RTS, and the application of Pokemon is pretty decent training.
We just need our gerontocracy to finally croak.
they’re gunna kill a lot of us first, then try and install techno feudalism on their way out the door as one last fuck you to the generations after them
People just don't pay attention...
Iran launching attacks on allied bases were all over the news. We don't resupply ships by loading up what they need on a boat in Virginia then a month later it shows up, they get shipments from the closest bases.
So when Iran started blowing up all the bases around Iran, it meant none of the ships around Iran would be resupplied.
That's literally why they did it, launching a direct attack would still be an escalation, so they kneecpped fleet operations around the strait and just waited out the blockade....
People miss a lot more obvious shit these days, but it's still disappointing.
It doesn't help that there's just an onslaught of fucked up news coming out of the USA which makes it all more difficult to keep up with. "Flood the zone with shit" is working well and the US barely has any real journalism left to counter it. I actually find CBC here in Canada covers what's going on better than any news corp in the country it reports on which is funny in a depressing way
No, it's not just that.
Anyone that put two seconds of thought into "why is Iran only attacking US allied bases" would have realized it's to cripple supply lines so the blockade couldn't be maintained, this has been a tactic longer than recorded history.
It's not a problem with "the media" because most people don't even interact with it, and when they do it's just headlines.
The problem is societal and it's that no one uses critical thinking. It should be an automatic background process running the whole time we're awake, but it doesn't.
For older generations it's lead poisoning coming home to roost, for younger generations it's that they were never taught critical thinking. But even the small slice in the middle, we've got a clock till our (lesser) lead poisoning really starts kicking in and is compounded by normal aging.
We're fucked, but that just makes it all the more important we fix education asap to mitigate the damage. Even tho it'll take 12 years before it really even starts to pay off, and then much longer till that generation becomes a large voting demographic.
It was also to tell neighbours that hosting a US base put them at risk, rather than be a security benefit.
Those neighbors, at least Kuwait, the Emirates and Saudi Arabia, were right alongside the Israelis in lobbying Trump to start the war. Then they thought they could stand idly by and cash in on the carnage while other people did the killing and dying. And they've also had a long history of murdering their indigenous Shi'a populations, and funding or waging wars to kill them elsewhere, such as in Yemen.
So this sounds like chickens coming home to roost.
Didn't the Pentagon basically close its press offices? Might be part of the issue.
Bruh, it's not secret information...
It's just billionaire owned media didn't talk about it.
This is from NPR 4 months ago, our military was acting like refugees from the jump from Bahrain. Fucking Bahrain, the literally military hub for that region.
We got waxed immediately and it was openly said, they just counted on people not connecting two dots to form a line.
And:
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/03/nx-s1-5770491/evacuation-bahrain-norfolk-troops
We got zero information, basically only some bbc articles
Because that makes Trump and Hegseth look bad. Can't have that.
But that was already in the post summary
I'm not seeing a post summary on this one
Weird, maybe is your client? I definitely do on Jerboa and Boost mobile apps. I haven't checked web but I'd be amazed if it wasn't there
Quite possibly. I use Sync which has its issues but for how much I use Lemmy is usually fine.