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[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

Operation Prosperity Guardian

Why do they always have to have the most dumb bullshit names for their imperialist projects???

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Population has to be able to cheer this on like it's an anime Marvel spinoff

[-] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To get the air force to approve of it, they hear prosperity g- and assume it’s from their mega church

[-] Venus@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Aren't these names literally randomly generated? I heard a long time ago that they basically just have a list of words, whack two of them together, and there's your operation name. Because otherwise people could glean things about the nature of the operation based on the name, and they want to be able to say the name without having to be that careful about it

[-] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

they use the xcom generator

[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

one of the three canadian officers on their way to the red sea without a fucking boat

[-] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

One of the Canadians will drive the Italian ship, one will drive the Dutch ship, and the last one will tell them what to do.

[-] Lucien@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For some reason I just imagine it looking very much like this

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

so what... donations to the Ansarallah Navy?

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

A sign of a retreating empire. Thing is, the US could have the same international support it had 20 years ago against Afghanistan and Iraq and it would still lose to Yemen.

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the US could have the same international support it had 20 years ago against Afghanistan

nods sagely

and Iraq

giggles slightly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_willing_(Iraq_War)

The list of coalition members provided by the White House included several nations that did not intend to participate in actual military operations. Some of them, such as Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau and Solomon Islands, did not have standing armies. However, through the Compact of Free Association, citizens of the Marshall Islands, Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia are allowed to serve in the US military. The members of these island nations have deployed in a combined Pacific force consisting of Guamanian, Hawaiian and Samoan reserve units. They have been deployed twice to Iraq. The government of one country, the Solomon Islands, listed by the White House as a member of the coalition, was apparently unaware of any such membership and promptly denied it.

In December 2008, University of Illinois Professor Scott Althaus reported that he had learned that the White House was editing and back-dating revisions to the list of countries in the coalition. Althaus found that some versions of the list had been entirely removed from the record, and that others contradicted one another, as opposed to the procedure of archiving original documents and supplementing them with later revisions and updates

...

In the second debate in 2004 U.S. presidential election, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry questioned the size of the coalition participating in the initial invasion, saying, "...when we went in, there were three countries: Great Britain, Australia and the United States. That's not a grand coalition. We can do better". Bush responded by saying, "Well, actually, he forgot Poland. And now there're 30 nations involved, standing side by side with our American troops". The phrase "You forgot Poland" subsequently became a sarcastic shorthand for the perception that most members of the coalition were not contributing much to the war effort compared to the main three allies. The majority of the population in most countries involved did not, according to surveys, support the endeavour or their nation's participation

I'm old enough to remember when we called them Freedom Fries, because those gosh darn surrender monkey Frenchies wouldn't throw in with us.

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the additional information and fact checking.

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

The only good naval officer is an Italian naval officer.

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

No(thing) personnel, kid. 🥷

teleports behind you
"nothin personnel, kid"
but actually they didn't have anyone available to teleport to you
this incident was entirely imagined

[-] Lucien@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Nice idea, here's a boat. Kill your own citizens, though.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Ohhh now it makes sense why the US was so fucking mad that the Chinese navy wouldn't join in. Their multinational coalition isn't worth shit.

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Low-stakes gripe, but using "singular" instead of "single" to sound smarter is, in fact, dumb.

[-] edge@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

I feel like it's usually used for emphasis more than anything.

better take: "singular" should not exist (also half the words in the english language)

[-] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Canada will send 3 staff officers

Good thing there's no seals living in the Red Sea

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

That's why they're holding club officers in reserve.

[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

I wonder how many empires' last futile efforts to maintain their hegemony are going to break on shipping through the Red Sea.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago

I mean i looked at their ship list and found this:

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