• El_guapazo@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Fell apart or was sabotaged?

    I would think they work fine everywhere else and defended vigorously. This story sounds like a half truth.

    We need more transparency about why it failed.

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      6 months ago

      Yeah man, I was in the Navy on a LHD, shit comes with helicopters and even an amphibious landing craft, and the US pretty much always has one in the area.

      There was never a single need for the dock, it was always a stalling tactic.

      Like, there is just no valid reason the US ever needs a fucking dock to get equipment/supplies onto the shore.

      For fucks sake, we were “air dropping” aid out of airplanes from bomb height like care packages in Call of Duty…

      We could have been sitting it down directly into a controlled forward operating base and letting the aid be distributed like civilized people instead of whoever shows up with weapons first gets all of it.

      Nothing about any of this has made sense if Biden actually wanted to help and not just make it look like he was helping.

      The US military is not this incompetent