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The best ways to turn military against you is a) don't pay them, b) don't feed them, and c) don't give a damn about the survival of the soldiers.

Meanwhile the Pentagon is spending millions a month ordering lobster and steak.

This is a huge fucking problem, one that's about 100x as severe if you're hearing this happen the first time.

While fighting forces normally have their advantages/disadvantages compared to their opponents, food abundance or scarcity can make a strategic difference. See the psychological effect of the USN ice cream ship in WW2, listen to Ryan McBeth comparing his rations to what his Egyptian comrades called "army meat"...

Hell, in my own personal experience in Basic Training (had an award-winning kitchen) vs NCO school (food supply didn't work out, had to bring your own breakfast before the march), basic supply can be the difference between enthusiastic service and a refusal to train. And this was the same unit.

The magnitude of the US' fuckup in this war (the whole war tbh) has still not become fully perceivable. History books will be talking about this in the tone of "as devastating Vietnam was for US foreign policy, the coffin nails hammered in in 2026 became the harbingers of the US empire's accellerated fall"... or sth like that.

I mean, this is horrific, I can really only identify the carrots as actual food, but what do US military personnel think their government thinks of them when they treat their veterans like they do? Their veterans get treated like scum. Their current Secretary of Defense literally ran multiple veteran support scam companies. How can active soldiers not see that thats how they will be treated when they become veterans? The fact that the military isn't marching on Washington to arrest the executive and the complicit portion of the legislative branch tells me they are not enlisting their best and brightest.

“The US has the greatest military logistics in the world!”

US military logistics:

Classic military diet at the end of an empire's reign. The corruption is so deep that the logistics to feeding their invading army while out on deployment are all but collapsed due to communications failures, inefficient funding, being belligerent to the countries who supply you food while abroad, etc.

Tortilla, broccoli, ‘a piece of chicken’: US agriculture secretary mocked for ‘money-saving’ meal

This shits funny. They blew through millions of dollars to buy lobster and luxuries for the Pentagon staff. Soldiers get shit. Hopefully they get the idea that they aren't cared for either.

When the Fyre festival has better food options than your "warriors", you suck ass at planning.

I'm reminded of people making fun of 'The Art of War' for having advice like "feed your troops".

This is why 'The Art of War' was written, for complete morons with no understanding of reality but put in charge of an army.

somewhat embarrassing

no this is 100% mortification levels of embarrassment. you couldn’t make propaganda that effective if you tried.

Is this for real? The pentagon has like a trillion dollar budget and yet somehow can't feed soldiers? Wtf is this clown shit ass corruption?

On the one hand, I feel sorry for the troops.

On the other hand, we fucking told you so.

Seems like the kind of meal that starts a 30 hour laundry fire.

That, right there, is how much America has been made great again.

I can only imagine how a soldier must feel like when they get to eat stuff like that, and then they are fighting a war that is so dramatically unpopular at home, and all it seems to do it make everything more expensive.

I would think retention is going to become a major problem for the US military.

I wouldn't be surprised if that is caused by Russian levels of corruption in either the US army or the US administration, or both.

suckers

/s

This is a serious fuckup. We win wars on the strength of logistics.

Holy shit that doesn't even look like food.

And I'm in the UK lol

It's almost like they didn't plan, like at all.

How do they not stock dried beans and rice? It's cheap, it keeps, a little goes a long ways, easy to make at scale. I wonder how much the Pentagon paid for that "hamburger patty"

We all know Trump failed at The Art of the Deal, now he fails at The Art of War; specifically speaking how Commanders must ensure their forces are well fed and satiated as layed out by Sun Tzu

If a good meal means they're going into battle, surely this means they're pulling out for good.

It's said that Germans in WWII knew they were in trouble when the US shipped cake from the US to the front lines. And we had an ice cream ship in the Pacific.

This news truly does not bode well for our superiority.

Netanyahu needs you to eat your goyslop.

The really sad thing- a ground soldier forward deployed on a battlefield eating MRE kits in a trench would get a significantly better meal than this.

Time for a mutiny

What is that grey thing? Looks like fish skin, but weirder... eeek.