According to a report from MS NOW, the USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t resupplied because Iranian strikes destroyed a key Navy resupply base in the Middle East.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
On the opening day of the war, the base, known as Naval Support Activity (NSA) Bahrain, was struck multiple times. Posts on social media showed a ballistic missile and Iranian drones slamming into the base. Satellite imagery from the company Planet shows that at least seven buildings in and around the base were struck between Feb. 28 and March 6.
In response to an NPR request, a Navy spokesman acknowledged that 1,500 sailors, their families and several hundred pets were relocated back to the U.S. from NSA Bahrain.
And:
Sailors have been arriving in Norfolk, Va., home to the world’s biggest naval base, since at least the middle of March. Several groups that provide aid to military personnel say that the sailors arrived with very little. A call went out to community groups, asking for basic supplies like hygiene products.
“The base was asking for donations of toiletries and different things for the sailors coming back, because they were coming back with nothing,” said Derrick Johnson, commander of American Legion Post 327 in Norfolk.
The post hosted a spaghetti dinner for some of the sailors, said Keith Shanesy, one of the post’s vice commanders.
"They literally told them, ‘Get what you can get in the backpack. You’ve got to go,’" he said. “They came with no uniforms, nothing. The three we met first, they came with the clothes on their back, what they could fit in that backpack.”
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