do you think they have remote work happy hours on zoom
hotels
That’s perfidy btw
Is that perfidy? I thought that was like falsely surrendering or something
Yeah, perfidy is falsely portraying soldiers as being some sort of protected category during a hostile operation. Disguising as troops from a neutral country, disguising as medical personnel, disguising as diplomats to approach for “negotiations” as a pretext to get close enough for an attack, falsely surrendering, etc. Housing them in civilian buildings isn’t anything except shitty AFAIK. Even if they were stationing them in hospitals, that still wouldn’t be perfidy unless they made them dress as medics.
From what I had heard before, which could be incorrect, they’re dressed as civilians, which is perfidy
hotels and office spaces throughout the region
The military are literally using the civilian population as human shields and Trump is using the military to encourage Middle Eastern countries to get involved when those troops get attacked in civilian areas; the troops are literally being treated as expendable (which they are, there’s no shortage of war criminals to replace them with) and the civilians are being treated as pawns
Brb, going to my HR department and telling them i’m under bombardment and need a better remote station
We need to give COVID-19 Shahed drones. It’s apparently the only way we’re move the needle on WFH policies.
Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable
Nice.
its literally every war the US is involved in. it doesn’t matter the audience: flag officers/planners, civilian leadership, the general public. reports are always positively spun to make it seem like even obvious strategic and tactical defeats are really some innovative genre of victory. marketing the war is always more important than fighting it. nobody wants to hear bad news so subordinates find creative ways to articulate the information up in a positive way. each level pads it as it moves up, until the last person only sees how great everything is going. a good leader would see the subtext and make changes, but there is zero chance of that happening in the US’ imperial institutions.
i fucking guarantee that decision makers will continue to believe the spin, insist the US is winning the war, and is mere days from victory right up until some critical logistical chain collapses or a carrier is sunk with thousands dead.
and frankly, the way they shuffle back the carrier groups it seems clear at least some know they must do whatever it takes to avoid even risking it happening, because leadership would find a way to shift the blame and punishment onto the people who follow their orders.
my fear is, once the reality of how unwinnable this conflict is dawns on its plotters, will they just lob a few nukes in humiliated desperation? i would say not, because it would achieve nothing / nor reopening anything… but these people are truly stupid.
the war going nuclear because these idiots can’t accept defeat is my biggest worry as well
Imagine being sent to war and napping while you’re supposed to be on-call