No ballllzzzz, what is my 300 billion a year going for if not to support imperialistic resource extractions
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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Well how else are the billionaires going to keep getting richer?
Send Barron in a tug boat.
Didn't you hear? He's too tall for a tugboat
Reverse Gattaca him.
A cat tag, I like where your head is at but don't know how that will improve matters.
I simply don’t see how having Barron in the thick of things makes them worse. And in theory maybe it makes things better for our ~~pawns~~ service members forced into this incredibly important mission.
I wonder if there's a case for the shipping industry to sue the US and Israeli govts
There’s for sure a case, what would the enforcement mechanism be? They would both tell the UN to fuck right off so I guess sanctions? Think that wouldn’t lead to war anyway?
We’re pretty locked into a horrible conflict that will drastically change the global order unless a lot of people in power have Ebenezer Scrooge moments simultaneously
We should be sanctioned, at a minimum. At maximum, someone should launch missiles at our military bases then kidnap our president.
Slapping tariffs on goods from everywhere else in the world is kind of a self-sanction.
They can only punch themselves in the dick so much .. though at this point it looks like they probably enjoy it
I wasn’t suggesting we shouldn’t be, but that will lead to conflict on one level or another
Normally you'd have to pick a jurisdiction to raise the case and then the local court system would deal with it, I assume they would raise it in the US .. so if they won the case the US would enforce it, I guess the US would have some law that saysthe DOD is not responsible for the shit they do though ..
I will say this for Trump, he figured out that he can just say, "Yeah, nah" to any authority that tries to stop him, or enforce laws against him. "Don't feel like accepting your judgement today ... old Miss Universe episodes are on, my McDonalds just arrvied, and Lindsey's gonna give me a wank while I eat".
Europe had no trouble sanctioning Russia for the war, and I'm sure they wouldn't want to be hypocritical.
*entire world
"Risk of attack is too great..."
Ah...so the US Navy operates off the same playbook as the Uvalde police department, I see.
Like Bitch, you're a warship. It's literally your job to put yourself at risk during a conflict.
Warship in a mined strait risk transforming in a single use submarine
Modern warships basically gave up on heavy armour. Instead they use manoeuvrability and suppressive fire. They are also intended to support each other in a fleet. A single warship, running close escort, loses all these advantages. It can't outmanoeuvre an attack, and it lacks the firepower to suppress a heavy attack on its own. Iran would make a point to try and sink both the escort ship and its protected cargo ship.
In order to work, the American navy would have to run a full convoy. A far bigger logistical challenge.
I have a feeling that there is or will be a water-borne version of a shahed drone. Something small and cheap and mobile vs big expensive high tech ships.
I suspect it wouldn't be anywhere near as effective. Torpedoes fill that roll already (at least mostly).
A shahed drone carrying a modified torpedo could be terrifying however. The drone gets into range quickly. The torpedo makes final approach. It would also be a lot quicker for Iran to develop and deploy.
I like to remind people that the Vietnam war with America and the Ukraine war with Russians are examples where the outside forces did not want to be there.
And the result has been the same: a bunch of dead outsiders who were either killed by war with the locals, or fragged by their own troops.
Is this epic fury?
It was Epic Furry one of their press releases for a few hours
They told Trump that was the name because he said he'd never fucked a furry before and they wanted his buy-in.
It's the next one: "Operation: Heckin Huge Chungus LMAO"
Can't risk sending military equipment into places where it might be attacked.
Can't make this up.
I view this as Naval commanders looking out for their personnel. Why would they risk escorting commercial activities if they're not directly ordered to? That isn't their primary mission/objective. The war is completely stupid and the vast majority of people do not want to be involved, but the US and Israeli billionaires are insisting to poke the hornets nest. That doesn't mean commanders on the ground/water want to put their lives on the line for what's an obvious bullshit conflict designed to enrich said billionaires.
I view this as Naval commanders looking out for their personnel.
I'm quite sure a lot of the high level commanders here have very little actual investment in this "war" as they've seen how unhinged, random and scatterbrained the administration has been with foreign policy.
Imagine spending your life training for the most harrowing missions and highest-level tactics, and then being sent basically to a random country to attack for unspecified reasons, and then being told "Go send your multi-million dollar boats filled with irreplaceable sailors through that channel filled with mines so oil tankers can get around faster or something, don't think about it. We promise we won't pull out of this whole mess in a week bro. Promise."
What exactly is an escort going to do for submerged mines anyway? Take pics? "Oh shit it blew up! Wow. Hope it's not us next."
There's good reason navy has moved far away from Iran. They've struck targets accurately far further than the 10km off their coast that is the Straits. Likely more Americans killed than reported in GCC. The Navy is refusing not only because it is a certain suicide mission that fails, but also because of the extreme embarrassment risk of that certain failure.
The US is not a 2020 fighting force, it is an 1980’s fighting force based on nostalgia, which is why it lost iraq and Afganistan. It is why it is not ready to lose a 3 billion dollar aircraft carrier to a $5,000 drone
It starts feeling like Trump vibe-coded his Presidency. Stuff happens because it sounds good in the LLM's mind, but of course it has no idea of the knock-on effects and all hell breaks loose.
He's been "vibecoding" years before LLMs went mainstream.
Truly a man ahead of his time.
Oh no, the chronic liar has lied?!
The use of interceptor missiles will be more expensive than the cargo of the ships being escorted.
The escorts would need to use interceptors to defend the cargo ships. No matter what they do it would be expensive.
As for the ship shortage Trump just cancelled most of the replacement ships that were under design. Oops
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