The lack of a U.S. carrier in the Pacific may be short-lived if the Navy deploys another in the next couple of months. But it shows how the open-ended operations with Iran are running some American sailors ragged, analysts say, while the Trump administration further retreats from the Asia-Pacific region and focuses on the Western Hemisphere.
“The administration says that the Pacific is supposed to be the most important behind the Western Hemisphere,” said Greg Poling, director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Instead, the U.S. is “doing the exact opposite” of its previously expressed goal of pulling out of the Middle East.
Leaders around the world are treating the US military defeat against Iran as a given and are planning for a future that does not include the US in any decisive role.
The current response of the nations in the Middle East is telling: plans are being drawn up and security cooperations being forged, while pretty much ignoring the US altogether.
Its likely a precursor for what we’ll see happen with nations surrounding the Sea of Japan and South China Sea in the upcoming months.
The largest, most powerful nation on earth has literally botched this war. Militarily, politically and economically. And as a result we’re now witnessing the US led global world order unravel completely. I think we’ve entered a very scary time.
botched
It was never winnable. No western nation would have won against Iran. The war is the dumbest war to begin with because of how unwinnable it was. Why are people acting as if Trump could have outsmarted Iran at any point ever? No NATO military leader would have won. The best choice for anyone is to just not start a war with Iran. A smart leader would have just not bombed Iran. No smart leader could win this war. That’s how stupid the war is. The smartest NATO leader right now, if they were fighting a war with Iran, would admit defeat.
The point of having 11 carrier is that you can always have several of them in maintenance while others are in operation and still keep a reserve. It’s a massive mismanagement of assets to somehow have carriers running ragged and yet still need to pull carrier from other commitments.
Can’t even be competently evil. Yee yee ass Wana be evil empire.
American ally-ship increasingly loses value as the Donald Administration progresses.
I wonder what the next president will do to try and win it back.
Latin American dictators seem to be lining up behind him and Rubio like ducklings.
I think the next president is going to inherit an absolute rogue’s gallery of “friends”
Dude is literally acting like the manchurian candidate
I don’t think I’ve lived to see a president who wasn’t accused of this
But very few had such obvious clandestine obligations to foreign adversaries and sociopathic individuals.
Bye Taiwan, so long and thanks for all the chipsets.
Man, all this is doing is showing any potential enemies just how fucking toothless the US is. Amazing show.
And yet we still spend so much freaking money on our military.
I’d argue it’s going to military contractors who are spending a lot on “research”. Grifters all the way down.
this. its amazing how quickly he gutted us to the point we are a paper tiger.
It really is incredible. So much carnage in so short a time. We’re like 19 months into his 48 month term. It almost seems planned.
If Iran can run the Navy ragged, imagine what India or China can do
So much of the joke is that they won’t need to.
唯一的制胜之策就是不参与
Translated to be “The only winning move is not to play.”
China has attained WOPR technology!
妛挧暃椦槞蟐袮閠駲墸壥彁
Someone went on Hacker News today huh
I didn’t - I saw it on Lemmy, which linked to some sort of blog I think. I don’t remember details, it’s been a long day. heh.
That said, I haven’t been out there in a while, I should visit. Good site.
China takes Taiwan - ram prices will go through the roof - don’t understand how trumptydumpty’s tech friends allowed him to do this. Oh well, the world may become a better place with China in the captain’s seat; Xi at least seems more intelligent and stable than Trump.
Why would RAM prices go up? The normal process for China seems to be to scale up and massively cut prices.
Additionally, if China takes Taiwan, they’ll be able to exert heavy influence on Korea and Japan, as a huge part of their import/export flows through Taiwan Strait. Might be able to get the countries to cut down on diplomatic relations with the West, perhaps even getting rid of a few of USA’s military bases in Japan and South Korea
China takes Taiwan - ram prices will go through the roof
Guess who has figured out how to make cheap high end RAM already?
If China feints towards Taiwan, the Taiwanese government flinches, and the TSMC factory goes to in smoke, China becomes a top 3 provider of high end chips inside of the month.
China takes Taiwan - ram prices will go through the roof - don’t understand how trumptydumpty’s tech friends allowed him to do This
Because USA tech friends want that: they want the trillion profits from squeezing the worker class out of the means of compute. Once we are all slaves we will pay back the dividends tenfold. They don’t care about China or Taiwan, they only care about China’s and Taiwan’s billionaire class, which is with them anyways.
Will they get food, provisions, repairs,…
All that sounds Woke to me
