• Swinging6917
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    The US is so much of a paper tiger that even a paper airplane outcompetes it.

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    There’s no way that parking two aircraft carriers and one heavily armed with nuclear warhead submarine right next to a global powderkeg can end badly

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        Number one in so many metrics!

        Most money wasted. Most innocents murdered. Most sexual assaults of locals. Most murder of locals. Most pollution.

        Truly the most effective military! If I am every threatened by an unarmed child, I know just who to call.

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I’ve heard two reasonable theories about this:

    1. The US military is worn down and undertrained.
    2. The plane was shot down by Hezbollah/Iran and the US is desperately trying to avoid escalation so it claims a training accident.

    The first theory passes Occam’s Razor but the second theory is consistent with the US ignoring and downplaying Iraqi/Iranian attacks on US bases in Iraq and Syria. It’s possible that the US knows that it’s aura of military invincibility is failing after it put so much into Ukraine only to get smoked. That Aura is the only thing keeping every enemy of the US reigme from kicking off a conflict which would overstretch the US military and lead to the collapse of the US empire.

    • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]@hexbear.net
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      The US military is worn down and undertrained.

      That’s not a new issue. Back during Iraq, the navy(?maybe marines) tried to mobilize a reserve that was supposed to use F-14s(?).

      Turns out there were like 9 actually ready to fly and they had 1:60 flight:maintenance ratios because parts that weren’t expected to fail and didn’t have parts were failing so they had to be savaged from other craft.

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        Paper tiger but the kids have been doing crafts this week and they used all the paper to make woke bunting for International [oppressed group] Week.

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      Both scenarios seems plausible. If US military is just sabre rattling then it makes sense they’re downplaying the incident. However, accidents like these aren’t entirely uncommon, and US military does have a habit of crashing planes.

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        USN, especially, has had ships hitting freighters and subs hitting underwater mountains (lmao, assuming that that’s not a cover for getting owned by Chinese ASW).

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          The underwater mountain was actually a dastardly CCP plot. You see in the DPRK they have Juche necromancy, much less well known is China’s Marxist superpower of quickly constructing anything they want, including a whole mountain under the ocean that didn’t exist on the US navy’s charts.

          One day they’re cruising happily around underwater, the next that mountain that wasn’t there 48 hours ago is in their patrol path and bam, coyote on painted tunnel type damage. Meanwhile Xi Jinping is snickering in the background.

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            Under water mountain painted to look like a big school of fish. A school of Marxism fish.

  • Aria
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    Can someone from the USA copy/paste the article text?

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      WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. military aircraft has gone down over the eastern Mediterranean Sea, U.S. European Command said Saturday.

      The command said in a statement that the aircraft crashed while conducting training operations. It said the cause is under investigation, but there are no indications of any hostile activity involved.

      The command said that out of respect for the families affected, no other information would be released on personnel involved.

      It wasn’t immediately clear what military service the aircraft belonged to. The Air Force has sent additional squadrons to the region and the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, which has an array of aircraft on board, has also been operating in the eastern Mediterranean.