Comment on Not to arm chair general it. How come the US doesn't get a bunch of helicopters over to the Lincoln with food meds and whatever? How did it get this bad where we can't supply our own ships?

• Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Thing about supply chains in war, they gotta be close by. We can’t be continually flying and air dropping supplies out there because the cost is too much. I am pretty sure there is also nowhere around to land and refuel your aircraft so you wouldn’t be making it back either.

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  • bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We have ships, load them with supplies and sail them there.

    Obviously you can’t resupply an aircraft carrier group with aircraft, it’s too dumb to respond to I would have thought. As is this argument that we can’t resupply by ships, of which we have plenty by the way, more than all the other nations of the world combined last I heard 25 years back as a matter of fact.

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    • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Okay but that takes time. So if you weren’t already doing that, starting immediately still means the Lincoln is sitting there unsupplied until your ships get there. If I recall, most of our bases there were landlocked before they became piles of ash.

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      • bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It has been 6 months. We also have allies in Europe, and frenemies all over we could resupply from.

        You are one of those people that gives the authorities the benefit of the doubt. Despite, you know, things.

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