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[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 28 points 3 months ago (6 children)

p r o p a g a n d a

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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

Backward propaganda?

"The US is so weak right now! We just totally botched this conflict! We haven't accomplished anything and now we're out of munitions... oh man what a mess!"

What would be the point of saying that deliberately?

Admittedly, I don't know what the reason is, but a more plausible explanation to me would be if it's simply not the kind of thing they can hide.

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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 3 months ago (1 child)

"So this justifies our need for more military spending and joining together with Israel's military"

Just spit balling, but I could see this as a reason for the US to be leaking this info intentionally.

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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Alright, yeah that makes some sense. Heh, I just needed a more logical motive.

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[–] ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Not that I believe anything the government says anymore, but a shitty reading of Sun Tzu is “pretend to be weak when you are strong, pretend to be strong when you are weak.”

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[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I had a propaganda at your mum lol

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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 point 3 months ago

Yeah, there's just no way this could be true, and the internet is considered another theater of war. I wouldn't take any reports like this at face value.

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[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone [S] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

these 'sources' might be long serving people from the military frustrated with the new leadership.

there is still a few people from before the trump administration in the higher up military aparatus not yet fired and replaced by some cousin or something who still have contacts to established journalist like this.

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[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

I understand they might be frustrated, but why would you say that we dont have long range precision missiles to hit you with if you attacked the US right now?

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[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Because any enemy would have a semi accurate estimate of how many missiles we would have. When you've blown past the amount of missiles you could possibly store in all your warehouses on a given base physics is ratting you out.

If your enemy knows, but your own public does not... I mean at some point you have to say something.

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[–] iglou@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

That doesn't mean they're defenseless. This is far from the only long range missiles they have.

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[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone [S] 2 points 3 months ago

maybe to discourage the public from being pro war because it wouldn't be a good idea

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[–] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

You can count the number made and used reasonably accurately, it's not a secret for large missiles. They're inherently easier to see.

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

After a fifth of whiskey you admit everything.

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[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I JUST got this... lol @ hegseth

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[–] DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

The sources interviewed for this story spoke on the condition of anonymity.

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[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago

Maybe it's a ruse and counter intelligence.

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[–] foofiepie@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Ok. So we’d probably best not tell anyone then. That could be interesting information to, you know, enemies and stuff.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Good. Maybe they will stop killing people now?

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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Nope.

Cluster bombs, white phosphor, maybe a few "tactical" nukes.

All out of precision means they don't have to answer about their aim when the hospitals and schools start blowing up.

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[–] Promethiel@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Bingo. This is the reason, and it's fairly transparent imo.

They're laying down the pathetically depressing (in all connotations) path to wring their hands and start to justify atrocities with the economy (uh, even further, that is):

"We had to defend ourselves and the Iranians forced our hands, it would have cost too much to fabricate new precision munitions and risked Jim-Bob's farm, hell, all of our livelihoods".

(Jim-Bob here being a "poor farmer" plant in the discourse to move Middle America. In reality, Jim-Bob is in Wisconsin two weeks out of the year, lives in a NY penthouse, and most of his money doesn't come from his multi-state AG operation but from the kickbacks and money laundering of subsidies).

I guess that's one way to adapt your forces to the incoming subservience of the puppets-turned-would-be-puppeteers. Gotta have the Iowa cornfield boys used to the ways of 3000 year old promises.

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

They can pivot the excuses, blame the companies that make them for being slow in building more. "We had to use something, all we had left were nukes. Not OUR fault."