#operationepicfailure — Public Fediverse posts

"Fury erupts at Fox host who blasted ‘weak’ sailors on USS Abraham Lincoln:
https://www.newsbreak.com/the-independent-517119/4832733560385-fury-erupts-at-fox-host-who-blasted-weak-sailors-on-uss-abraham-lincoln-put-him-on-that-ship
#DonaldTrumpHatesTheUSmilitary #PutinsPuppet #IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #politics #media

Tom Nichols: "The reason our people are enduring the kinds of conditions reported on the USS Lincoln is not because they're under siege, but because Trump and Hegseth screwed up. Those two did not have a strategy, or plan for what the enemy can do, or a backup plan if things went wrong."
#IranWar #incompetence #mismanagement #PoorPlanning #OperationEpicFailure

Cenk Uygur: "If tomorrow we* weren't allies with Israel, all of our wars in the Middle East would end immediately. Remind me again how being allies with the bullies of the region who oppress and humiliate their neighbors is helpful to American interests."

It is not helpful.

* The United States.
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire

Nostre_damus wrote: "What is the Pentagon doing with One Trillion dollars a year?

It is not winning wars, it is not producing missiles, and it is not maintaining Navy ships.

Where is the money going?"
#mismanagement #NationalSecurity #military #IranWar
#OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

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Jamelle Bouie: "Much of the destruction of the second Trump administration is self-inflicted. It is Trump and his allies who have wrecked the administrative state, undercut science, and mired the country in a new Middle East quagmire."

In his newsletter, Jamelle Bouie mentioned that one source for his conclusions about Donald Trump is the book “Regime Change” by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.

#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #politics copy: @renewedresistance

Bill Maher said this about America's lack of missiles:
"The #IranWar has a new slogan: 'War, while supplies last'."
#OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #military #mismanagement #incompetence

"Retired Maj. General Randy Manner on Friday accused Pres. Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth of spewing lies about the reportedly deplorable conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and its extended deployment in the Middle East":
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/retired-major-general-randy-manner-slams-trump-hegseth-spewing-lies-uss-abraham-lincoln_n_6a806843e4b0b3bc96f6bd89?origin=home-latest-news-unit
#DeathShipgate #military #incompetence #IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire

"Iran called on the United States to accept defeat,
while Pres. Donald Trump blasted Tehran as 'very evil'."

"Very evil" is arguably the very best description of Donald Trump. The best possible outcome of the #IranWar, after the Trump Administration failed so badly at so many things, is for Trump to accept defeat within one week of today. The #IranWar will not be getting any better for him.
#OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

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Dan Lamothe: "The longer the United States blockade goes on, the more strain you are placing on the United States Navy."

This strain leads to sailors committing suicide on the USS Abraham Lincoln.
#NationalSecurity #military #IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire

The #IranWar is going even worse for the United States than was earlier reported because: "Israeli defense officials have been shocked by the speed of Iran’s recovery following the early 2026 war":
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-905474?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=August142026
Iran's military is back with "a stunningly speedy turnaround that (Israeli intelligence) did not expect and not in merely one or another specific area, but in many areas, including regarding the ballistic missile threat."
#OperationEpicFailure #politics copy: @renewedresistance

Every time that Donald Trump believes Israeli intelligence, he looks like a fool.

Israeli intelligence said the #IranWar would be won in a few days. That was about half a year ago.

Israeli intelligence said there was an Iranian threat to Air Force One. It was another lie that made Trump look like a cowardly idiot.
#OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #CateringTruckgate #OperationPigInABlanket

I do not want to be too critical of America's starving sailors, but they need to understand that if they were given a decent amount of food, then there would not be enough money for more tax cuts for billionaires.

At least that is how Donald Trump sees it.

Putin and #PutinsPuppet Trump hate the United States military, and evidence of this is the shabby, unconscionable, conditions on US Naval vessels.
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #military #BeggingForFood #politics

"Vice Pres. JD Vance said Thursday that keeping oil and gas affordable for US consumers is now the administration’s priority."

If that is true then Trump should end his illegal and hopeless #IranWar:
https://sundayguardianlive.com/world/us-israel-iran-war-latest-live-news-oil-is-down-today-jd-vance-says-bringing-gas-prices-down-is-now-goal-number-one-as-strait-of-hormuz-disruption-gives-tehran-new-leverage-over-trump-260889/
#OperationEpicFailure copy: @renewedresistance #politics

The #IranWar, #OperationEpicFailure, is a disaster in one more way: American sailors are increasingly jumping overboard, often to their deaths. This war is not a cause they believe in and many of them are attempting suicide:
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/11/multiple-uss-abraham-lincoln-sailors-have-tried-to-go-overboard-amid-extended-deployment-families-say/
#EndThisIllegalWar #politics #military

The Trump Administration does not have the type of bombs it would need to win the #IranWar, #OperationEpicFailure, but it does have other bombs, as you can see in this #PoliticalCartoon by Tim Campbell:

Ron Filipkowski wrote and shared this picture which may have been created by #AI:
"If you’re hiding in a catering truck when you control the most powerful military in the world, you aren’t winning."
#IranWar #military #OperationEpicFailure #politics

"Trump faces depleted weapons stockpiles, an Iranian regime determined to impose pain on the United States, an Israeli prime minister battling for re-election, and American voters reeling from high prices induced by the #IranWar. The November midterms keep ticking closer, steadily raising the political costs of the turmoil to Trump and Republicans":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/politics/trump-new-strategy-middle-east.html
#HowToLoseAWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s nominee for Army chief of staff may struggle to win confirmation because Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee oppose his candidacy":
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-republicans-senate-christopher-laneve-b3027721.html
He is opposed due to his lack of experience. When you are in a war, experience is especially important, except in the Trump Administration. The incompetent nominee was formerly Hegseth's military aide. It's who you know, not what you know.
#politics #IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire

Chris Christie (who was a Republican governor) said:
"Donald Trump is becoming Jimmy Carter.
The Iranians are holding him hostage."
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

You, @jefftiedrich, described the #IranWar as "a war, but with morons" and asked "how the fuck do you miscount missiles?"

Yes, that is a good description of the #IranWar.
Missiles were not miscounted. Trump and Hegseth assumed there would be enough missiles, especially because they thought Iranians would quickly surrender. They were wrong and their lack of concern with our lack of missiles was gross negligence.
#OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #incompetence #military #politics

"Pres. Trump signaled on Sunday that he's prepared to allow economic pressure on Iran to mount — as opposed to ordering a new military offensive — even as the country continues to defy the United States. Only a week ago, Trump was on the verge of ordering a return to major combat operations. But in an interview with Axios, he did not make any new military threats":
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/09/trump-iran-interview?utm_campaign=mrf-utm_campaign=editorial&utm_source=x&utm_medium=owned_social&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&mrfcid=202608096a7107cca447ee21c3cb7277
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire

"The United States Is Burning Through Weapons in Iran":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/us/politics/pentagon-weapons-stockpiles-china-russia.html
This happens when the Secretary of War is incompetent. Hegseth insisted that the Department of Defense be called the Department of War, but he forgot that the military cannot win a war if it does not have enough weapons.

"Russia and China Are Taking Note."
This is one more way that Trump, as #PutinsPuppet, helps Russia.
#NationalSecurity #politics #IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire

Marc Polymeropoulis wrote about why Trump is unlikely to order a major attack on Iran: "Massive escalation is very risky. It would go against the specific wishes of our Gulf allies who will bear brunt of reprisals. There is a shortage of precision weapons. There is the potential for US casualties. Gas prices would skyrocket. Midterms are around the corner. Plus, would escalation even work?"
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #IncompetentLeadership copy: @renewedresistance #politics

"At least 50 US troops have parents and spouses facing deportation under Trump":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iipApqoj_BQ
The Trump Administration's mistreatment of people in the #military of the United States is one more sign of Trump's contempt for people who serve in our military. Another sign is Trump's unnecessary, illegal, and disastrous #IranWar.
#OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics #HumanRights

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Juliette Kayyem: "One would think that a nation winning the war would be chatty about it. Instead, the United States’ silence—punctuated by bravado from Trump—is the tell. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has not held a Pentagon press briefing on the war since early March. He hasn’t bothered to publicly explain America’s new airstrikes, the mounting casualties that have come to light, or the strategy that supposedly connects one to the other."
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

Juliette Kayyem: "The War in Iran Isn’t Over. But We’ve Already Lost. Iran understood what Pres. Donald Trump did not: this war would be won by controlling the clock":
https://earlywarningwithjuliette.substack.com/p/the-war-in-iran-isnt-over-but-weve?just_subscribed=true
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics copy: @renewedresistance

"As Pres. Trump heads to the West Coast to talk to Americans about the economy, the war in Iran is driving up costs and polls show the already unpopular conflict is losing support ... Here are three domestic hurdles Mr. Trump is facing because of the war":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/us/politics/iran-war-complications-trump-agenda.html
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure copy: @renewedresistance #politics

#IranWar Update: "An Emerging Deal Could Cement Iran’s Control of Strait of Hormuz. The deal would address Pres. Trump’s most urgent political problem by allowing ships to move again. But it would give Iran strategic leverage it did not have before the war":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/us/politics/strait-of-hormuz-possible-reopening-deal.html
#OperationEpicFailure #incompetence #politics

The direct military conflict between Iran, the United States, and Israel has been going on for five months, having started on February 28, 2026. When Trump called the #IranWar #OperationEpicFury, I called it #OperationEpicFailure. Clownish leadership from Pete Hegseth was one of many reasons why it was doomed to fail.
#UnnecessaryWars #DoomedToFail #BlameRepublicans

#IranWar update: "The Iranians certainly feel that they have leverage and they feel emboldened, and it’s leading them to refuse to make concessions":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/02/irans-demands-leave-trump-few-good-options-01020961 "Trump faces a series of deeply unattractive choices.”
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #military copy: @renewedresistance #politics