The NYT is finally reporting on the obvious logistical problem of trying to blockade a blockade. This was a strategy apparently delivered to Donald Trump by Epstein’s lawyer and ultra Zioinst Alan Dershowitz. The motivations for this yellow toothed Jewish supremacist are obvious. He hates Iran because Iran in an impediment to Israel’s ambition of land annexation and ethnic cleansing.
The Times states, “The U.S. Navy is facing a serious logistics problem in the Middle East.
Around 20 ships carrying roughly 20,000 sailors and Marines need more than 420,000 meals and about eight million gallons of fuel every week.
The situation became much harder after Iran destroyed a key Navy logistics base in Bahrain and made other nearby ports too dangerous to use.
Supply ships now have to travel about 2,200 miles to Diego Garcia, or even farther to Singapore, before returning to the fleet.”
That the Media is saying this now is probably the result of the War Departments staff and ex-staff turning to it since Hegseth and Trump simply are not listening to reality.
Army Secratry Dan Driscoll resigned just before the latest round in the US Iran War and so did a deputy under secretary of Defense Dave Fitzgerald.
The Army’s vice chief of staff, Gen. James Mingus, retired without explanation in October. Hegseth then fired the Army’s chief of staff, Gen. Randy George, and in June Gen. Chris Donahue, the commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, retired. Also in June Col. Nathon McCormack was removed for not cooling it with the antisemitic remarks. He told the truth.
Anti-Israel Graffiti and comments about Epstein have shown up on US ships and wing flaps. The troops know. There was a mutiny on the USS Eisenhower where the toilets were broken and the laundry was set on fire. Over on the Lincoln sailors attempted to jump overboard.
That wasn’t the end of it. Trump fired the following
Air Force General Charles Q. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Navy Admiral Lisa Franchetti, chief of naval operations
General James Slife, Air Force vice chief of staff
General David Allvin, Air Force chief of staff
Army Lieutenant General Joseph B. Berger III, judge advocate general of the Army
Air Force Lieutenant General Charles Plummer, judge advocate general of the Air Force
And as already mentioned
General Randy George, Army chief of staff
Gen. Chris Donahue
Col Nathan McCormack
Then Dan Driscoll and Dave Fiztgerald resigned. In addition to that the Director of national intelligence resigned Tulsi Gabbard resigned in June and while going out the door mention the US has biolab in Ukraine. With her went Joe Kent Director of National Counter Terrorism Center.
The sailors on the Lincoln are not the only ones abandoning ship. Hegseth and Trump are surrounded by yes-men. The reports they give sometimes done on Truth Social are so incredibly asinine that one has to check if it is real or Ai. How many times has trump declared America runs the Strait of Hormuz or that he obliterated Iran’s navy, air force, communications, air defense, Uranium and leadership. The reality is none of those things are gone. The only thing Trump has been good at obliterating is US credibility and prestige. He murdered school girls and bombed a wedding. Obama could get away with that because he reined in a pre-telegram era. Trump pulled a page out of the Israeli playbook and blamed the victims.
Other problems in addition to the logistics and low morale are the rapid alienation of allies, the depletion of BOTH interceptors and stand off munitions and the Houthi, Hezbollah and even Hamas all joining the war again US forces.
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