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submitted 10 hours ago by micnd90@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

Here's the link but honestly not worth reading

https://archive.ph/zuMGa

Except for this

Critics maintain that the rapid and large-scale expenditure of munitions has “wrung out” U.S. power and that Washington’s inability to subdue Iran sends a message of American weakness around the world. On the contrary, the war showed that the United States is still willing and able to engage in large-scale military action. Russian President Vladimir Putin or Chinese President Xi Jinping cannot safely assume the Pentagon will stay on the sidelines if they attack NATO or Taiwan.

The war also gave the U.S. military the opportunity to practice. China’s People’s Liberation Army has not fought a war in decades. The Pentagon just conducted a months-long exercise in Iran of new tactics and technology that will be useful in a future conflict in Europe or Asia.

anya-heh

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 4 points 55 minutes ago

The only reason they're publishing this shit is to give the hogs on wikipedia something so they can stop the wiki article from saying "Iranian Victory"

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 25 minutes ago* (last edited 25 minutes ago)

Too late lmao:

Though i guess there is probably edit war going there

[-] CupcakeOfSpice@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago

Somehow bombing real people who had real lives (not to mention that those people were completely innocent and rarely even combatants) is just a "months-long exercise." If I recall correctly, exercises are supposed to be, y'know, not doing actual damage?

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 14 points 4 hours ago

"Sure I was Checkmated with ease, but I was ahead on material, and my next opponent hasn't even practiced today!"

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 8 points 4 hours ago

This loss against a much smaller guy in boxing only makes me stronger for when I have to sword fight a much larger guy (who happens to sell me most of my shit for cheap so I can afford to buy groceries and keep the lights on)

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 11 points 5 hours ago

Oh it's the nage guy, what ghoulishness do I remember him from?

[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 16 points 5 hours ago

I mean take your pick.

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 19 points 6 hours ago

China’s People’s Liberation Army has not fought a war in decades.

Something interesting the PLA does that never factors into these people's assessments though is bring in vets from other countries' wars to help train their people and work on their processes. Back in the 2010s one of the most lucrative career paths for American military pilots was to resign their commission and go to China to be an instructor (technically this is illegal, so they would do it through civilian companies on the sly, and of course the American government has a big problem with it).

[-] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 1 points 47 minutes ago

Free Dan Duggan!

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 36 points 7 hours ago

Epic Fury traded the destruction of the military of the world’s leading terrorist state for an increase in energy prices that will ultimately subside. That is a good trade.

Well, I can't deny that it caused a lot of damage to the military of the world's leading terrorist state, I'll give him that.

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 30 points 7 hours ago

an expert's point of view on a current event

The expert: monkey-typewriter

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 17 points 6 hours ago

"Losing makes us better than armies that didn't lose actually"

[-] micnd90@hexbear.net 12 points 6 hours ago

it was the best of times it was the blurst of times

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 59 points 8 hours ago

Pentagon just conducted a months-long exercise in Iran

Wow what a fucking ghoul, excercise in what? Murdering kids, political assassinations and taking huge geopolitical and economical L's? China must be trembling right now.

[-] fox@hexbear.net 15 points 6 hours ago

Learning that parking your planes out in an open field is a great way to have them blown up.

[-] userse31@hexbear.net 21 points 7 hours ago

Not checking dryer lint traps.

[-] TommyCatkins@hexbear.net 39 points 8 hours ago

It was an exercise on what to do when all your bases in a region get destroyed

[-] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 30 points 8 hours ago

All your base are reduce to dust

[-] Ishmael@hexbear.net 21 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Amazing to look at how a country of 90 million people kicked America's ass and think it proves the US could beat a country of 1,410 million.

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 36 points 8 hours ago

Alright soldiers, you did a good job ~~getting your ass kicked~~ training with Iran. Now we're ready for the big leagues. Get ready to take on the super power that sells us all the things we need to make our shit.

[-] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 hours ago

oh and can also do all the things we can do, plus probably some things we can't yet do.

and also they'll probably take out our space toys so we'll have to do it all blind, but we just proved we can do this!

[-] red_giant@hexbear.net 19 points 7 hours ago

Technically those were Bahraini and Kuwaiti bases so they don’t count

[-] Bonescape@hexbear.net 27 points 7 hours ago
[-] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 20 points 7 hours ago

The US was not owned.

We didn't get totally owned, just like 90% owned.

smuglord

This text is not cope because we didn't get owned and it's not bothering me in the slightest. I don't even think of it anymore because why would I since we didn't get owned anyway.

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 53 points 9 hours ago

The Pentagon just conducted a months-long exercise in Iran of new tactics and technology that will be useful in a future conflict in Europe or Asia.

It goes both ways, dude. China and Russia just got a great look into the US's capabilities and tactics without firing a single bullet, and you have no idea what they're training on or what they're capable of lol.

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 6 points 4 hours ago

Russia already got a look at US capabilities with the Great Ukranian Counteroffensive that was planned as a classic armoured schwerpunkt. Didn't go great for Ukraine.

yeah we got our ass whooped in every conceivable way but we learned about war. all my losses was lessons

[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 30 points 8 hours ago

The recent chapo episode where they dunked on this was quite funny. Getting your ass beat and saying to the biggest onlooker as you're carted away to hospital "i hope you saw that you're next"

[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 46 points 9 hours ago

smuglord "Sure Iran blew the US out of the water in *lists every militarily relevant metric*, but we absolutely OWNED in children blown up in school. And according to Holden Bloodfeast's "War ~~Crimes~~ Points" those are worth sooo much!"

[-] XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX@hexbear.net 23 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

i am once again stating that the point of this war was just to be at war with an enemy. the question of winning or losing doesn't even apply to this war, since it was declared and prosecuted (and will continue to be prosecuted when we inevitably break the ceasefire) purely for the purpose of being in The News and delivering some Spectacular Violence to the hogs

[-] Big@hexbear.net 9 points 6 hours ago

The point was to keep Iran busy with US bombing campaigns so Israel could push into Lebanon.

surely there would have been less prestige-damaging (forgive my eu4-addled brain but you know what i mean) way of doing so, no?

[-] spectre@hexbear.net 9 points 7 hours ago

I don't agree I think they wanted to do another Venezuela (possibly two more) on the way in to G7

im sure that's what trump wanted to do. but i don't believe the entire capitalist class thought "doing a venezuela" to iran was possible. they've seen the results of the millenium challenge just as much as we have, they knew ahead of time that that would be impossible. after the failed decapitation attempt there was no reason to continue with a real war (imo) other than for spectacle

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 38 points 9 hours ago

The war also gave the U.S. military the opportunity to practice. China’s People’s Liberation Army has not fought a war in decades.

IDK... I don't think the nation that has constatnly been at war for decades is in need of more opportunities to "practice". Not fighting wars seems like that smarter thing to do. But what would I know? I'm not being paid 6-7 figures to write shit like this.

[-] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

A lot of Americans in the military and political elite genuinely seem to think that they need to wage at least one major war every ten years lest they risk becoming too soft. They compare it to exercising and staying fit. "If you don't use the military they lose their edge over time."

To a normal person that just wants peace this mentality is hard to understand but this is how a lot of these people think.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 7 points 6 hours ago

Also all the wars we keep fighting to stay in shape are against unorganized tribal groups with 60 year old aks and no air support. Turns out when it's an actual army we can't even carve out a foothold.

It'd be like saying you gotta stay in fighting shape for boxing so you head down to the local pre-k to roundhouse some toddlers and still somehow manage to break your foot in the process.

playing eu4 and watching my military tradition tick down during peacetime and then declaring war on an OPM in africa just to feel something

[-] tocopherol@hexbear.net 15 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I've known of people that would go around instigating fights on the street late at night to keep their skills up, the US is a drunk and racist street hooligan.

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 19 points 8 hours ago

I'm sure getting owned by cheap mass produced drones and missiles was surely a learning experience that will help them fight a country that has the ability to mass produce...

Hypersonic missiles...

[-] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 25 points 8 hours ago

Practice fighting in a war. Which amounts to what exactly? How would the European or Pacific theatre be remotely comparable to the west Asia theatre? The conditions aren't comparable at all. This is like say that you are better prepared for your math test cause you got a 20/100 on your English test

[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 14 points 8 hours ago

People doesn't say that a loss teaches more than a win? Well that's true when you recognize the loss, if you pretend you won you learn fucking nothing dumbass.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 17 points 8 hours ago

Making up shit on main.

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 16 points 8 hours ago

I like how it has a picture of the head of the nation agsinst the backdrop of the flag of crazy nuts. (It is the state flag of Ohio and their icon is the Buckeye Nut)

Ohio buckeye nuts (seeds of Aesculus glabra) are poisonous to humans and livestock in their raw state due to the presence of glycoside aesculin, saponin aescin, and tannic acid.  Ingestion can cause severe symptoms including vomiting, diarrhea, muscle weakness, paralysis, and potentially death. 

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 7 points 7 hours ago

Bit of a reach, you could have just said, as the kids say these days, Ohio

[-] TommyCatkins@hexbear.net 12 points 8 hours ago

We need toxic nuts to keep Yinzers and Michiganders out of our state.

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 17 points 8 hours ago

I assume it's some kind Vietnam war logic? We killed more people therefore we won

[-] Nopeace@hexbear.net 20 points 9 hours ago

me reading that title limmy-awake

[-] Yllych@hexbear.net 19 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I think if you poked a hole in this man, not blood but sawdust would pour out.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 18 points 9 hours ago

He's just solid hamburger all the way though his torso

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