The US Navy has denied reports of food shortages on board two major vessels participating in the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

Yesterday USA Today reported crew aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli were not getting enough to eat.

One photo taken by a Marine showed a mostly empty lunch tray with a single scoop of shredded meat and one tortilla.

  • Xella@lemmy.world
    141·
    1 day ago

    You’re right, but you vastly underestimate the power of U.S. propaganda. A majority (not all) of the people who enlist have no clue what they’re signing up for. They were told it’s the right thing to do then suddenly they are stuck. Our schools don’t teach critical thinking like they used to so these poor souls are brainwashed into joining or their only other option is death on the streets.

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
      1·
      17 hours ago

      You can say the same for any fascist and warmongering country. Sub in Russia, Nazi Germany, etc. It doesn’t change a thing

    • Zebrafive@lemmy.myserv.one
      31·
      1 day ago

      I think there is a lot of misunderstanding in the world about the scale of the USA’s problems, what individuals in the military do, what caused them enlist, how our population is orders of magnitude greater than most nations and how that has such a powerful effect and consequence to our democracy / republic.

      I dont go around making these wild claims about other nations but many folks outside US see no issue for to make uninformed, inflammatory statements about us.

      Its easy for them say : military bad Its true but not comprehensively true, as if it would be so easy for us to just stop. This shit is an incomprehensible large machine that has inertia…and it truly truly sucks. But can we please prioritize blaming and holding accountable the mother fuckers making these damn decisions instead of a mother fucking janitor or an accountant or truly does fuck all and definitely isnt killing anyone.

      No doubt…unquestionably so, there will be investigations, eventually into the nature of attacks recently thst led to innocent lives being killed-- hopefully it is public enough for us to peer inside those happenings…