it would suck to be trapped on a big boat for so long without resupply, but for so many years, military bozos have been making us all watch them blow themselves about how patriotic and self-sacrificing they are for choosing to be troops for the grand empire.

now that the "service" is requiring requiring a bit more risk, discomfort, and the mission is more obviously bullshit in service to asshole elites, it looks like the institution is showing real cracks.

consider than under 20% of the population of a naval vessel are officers, and that this is the highest that ratio has ever been (commentary considers this ratio bloated by officers). what's crazy is that the career central command structure in Washington has had a lot of turnover at the behest of people like Kegsbreath. so the cool, calculating heads that would be more proactive about issues like readiness and morale and take steps to protect the command structures overseas may not be present or effective.

10 years ago, the idea of a large vessel undergoing some kind of partial mutiny would be unthinkable to me. if something leaked later that a failed mutiny had started around this time that was violently repressed but at great cost to readiness, i would not even be shocked anymore.

if the collapse of the russian empire is an analog, the military fell apart (during wartime no less) well ahead of the domestic policing institutions.