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37 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Lulz those war plans and strike schedules were leaking EVERYWHERE goddamn

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/hegseth-yemen-attack-second-signal-chat.html

(No paywall archive link: https://archive.is/OGtzi)

Really ignominious start to the Hegseth era, and unfortunate to needlessly heighten the risk for those naval aviator by leaking their attack plans

This is what happens when you put very unserious people in very serious jobs.

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This is what happens when you put very unserious people in very serious jobs.

Seriously. I love that the SUPPOSED counterweight to what they THINK “DEI” is, is “only merit-based hiring!” Yet the only “merit” that any of these people have is: willing to deepthroat Trump’s mushroom dick and gargle the gravy.
Seriously, the resume of most of his cabinet appointments is utterly embarrassing. They are wildly unqualified for the actual job, but they score 100 on the “cum chugging Trump loyalist” scale.
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44 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Not at all good. Some PRC spooky fellas are gonna be pulling out all the stops to talk to the Houthis and Iranians doing this.

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I mean, I've made a hard turn/evasive action that made me spill my coffee in the car.  So, same-same, really.

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57 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Not at all good. Some PRC spooky fellas are gonna be pulling out all the stops to talk to the Houthis and Iranians doing this.

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1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Not at all good. Some PRC spooky fellas are gonna be pulling out all the stops to talk to the Houthis and Iranians doing this.image.thumb.png.48ca3fbf7c0beace3c270537496ca2ea.png

I'm calling bullshit. Houthi fire getting so close to an American aircraft carrier that it's forced to perform evasion maneuvers? Yeah, no.

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3 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

I'm calling bullshit. Houthi fire getting so close to an American aircraft carrier that it's forced to perform evasion maneuvers? Yeah, no.

110% - that's clickbait nonsense.  Heard brakes failed in the lift as the plane was being loaded and both the plane and tow-car went wide, people scattered and they both went over the side.  

Carriers are ringed with a dozen support/attack ships, multiple subs and concentric rings of security.  Is this lady saying some duded in a shrimp boat got through all that and were in range to threaten a battle carrier?  Lol, no.   

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Not saying we should escalate, but I presume our doctrine says we get extra shitty with our enemies when they fuck with a goddamn nuclear super carrier.  If for no other reason because it’s very bad look to let that kinda fuckery go uncontested.

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Just now, Parliament said:

Not saying we should escalate, but I presume our doctrine says we get extra shitty with our enemies when they fuck with a goddamn nuclear super carrier.  If for no other reason because it’s very bad look to let that kinda fuckery go uncontested.

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Natasha Bertrand is not a hack or clickbait journalist and neither is Toropin (Military.com). I’m not saying this for sure happened, but I feel comfortable saying that a Pentagon official in a place of responsibility said it did.

The Houthis possess an arsenal of Iran-supplied anti-ship ballistic missiles and destroyers have been shooting them down, as well as one-way UAVs. These are not on par with what China or Russia has, but they are not shrimp boat guns either.  It is not out of the realm of possibility that the carrier maneuvered out of caution. 

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Several threads this could go into.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intercepted and seized the Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker M/T Talara in the Strait of Hormuz, steering it into Iranian territorial waters.

The vessel, managed by Cyprus-based Columbia Shipmanagement, was carrying high-sulfur gasoil and had departed Ajman Port in the United Arab Emirates earlier that day en route to Singapore.

The tanker was approached by three IRGC small boats approximately 20 nautical miles off the UAE coast in the Gulf of Oman, leading to loss of contact and a course deviation toward Iran.

This marks the first such IRGC interdiction in the strategic waterway in several months. The incident was reported by the British maritime risk firm Vanguard, corroborated by the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) as possible state-sponsored activity, and confirmed by a U.S. defense official.

A U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton drone monitored the area for hours, while Ambrey, a private security firm, noted the involvement of the small boats. Columbia Shipmanagement stated it is prioritizing crew safety amid the communication blackout.

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