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This is what active military serving near Iran get to eat. Is he having door dash granny deliver it?
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Classic military diet at the end of an empire’s reign. The corruption is so deep that the logistics to feeding their invading army while out on deployment are all but collapsed due to communications failures, inefficient funding, being belligerent to the countries who supply you food while abroad, etc.
Also, try to get something made here anymore, we don’t have the infrastructure to develop a lot of those skills anymore.
Our entire manufacturing industry rested on its laurels for fifty years. We sort of assumed the miracle was cheap labor (money in America is still upset about whole emancipation thing).
Super high dollar mossles were the only thing we had left and I think we just realized how the balance of Military power is also shifting.
So unless we WW3 everyone else, or stir up the continent and get them to do it again, we would have to do serious work and we don’t have those akillsets either. Think about our bave new Iraq.
Half a century of bad leadership has had an effect.
And industry certainly didn’t have to. Whilst Trump is wrong about the effects of trade deficit, he wasn’t wrong about it posing problems for US. Trade deficit isn’t a bad thing, because if done wisely import is essentially foreign investment in domestic production.
The fact that US manufacturers struggle is another way Trump represents the US: the US personified is a horrible short-sighted businessman that can’t get ahead with decades of a head start and endless investment pouring in.
Our entire manufacturing industry rested on its laurels for fifty years.
It didn’t fall asleep, it grew legs and walked overseas.
It didn’t fall asleep, it grew legs and walked overseas.
Legs that were supplied by Wall Street (at a profit, of course)
Our entire manufacturing industry rested on its laurels for fifty years.
You forgot about guns and ammunition, USA produces more than rest of world combined! EVERY state is involved in their manufacturing, even Hawaii.
Last time I checked, firearm sales have tripled since 2000.
Hahaha America is a fucking pathetic joke.
I can only imagine how a soldier must feel like when they get to eat stuff like that, and then they are fighting a war that is so dramatically unpopular at home, and all it seems to do it make everything more expensive.
I would think retention is going to become a major problem for the US military.
Don’t worry, they upped the draft age to 42! I’m certain that’s not just a coincidence.
I would think retention is going to become a major problem for the US military.
If it didn’t stop them in the last decades it won’t bother them now.
Aren’t we all so glad America is invested in real manly food like purple beef patties instead of weak effeminate shit like vegetables, or flavor
America is so ignorant when it comes to food, its scary. Someone really thinks they get nutrition from slop like this, or it wouldnt exist.
And you are right, so much of American food has zero flavour, zero spices, zero veggies or fruits. Many things just have salt, sugar, butter and oils - thats American “food.”
so much of American food has zero flavour, zero spices
Hey we’re not all in the midwest… hahah - but no. America being a true melting pot means that we have access to every cuisine the world has to offer. The best part of that is the lack of conquest - we didn’t go steal the worlds’ best food, for a long time (not now unfortunatley) we opened our arms to people fleeing your country, and let them come here and succeed, opening restaraunts, food carts, shops, etc - and my tastebuds are eternally grateful!
“a true melting pot” yet one of the most xenophobic countries in the world these days. So much for open arms 😢
America has some of the best food in the world, you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Yeah, thats why half of it cant be imported to Europe due to chemical polution levels.
The US is larger than your entire continent. Would you say Italy has shit food because you saw a photo of a shitty English breakfast? Of course not.
Actually, it’s worse than that since you’re basing this on food exports. Not even close to the same thing as eating food at an restaurant in the US
US is larger, but also has a population smaller then just the European Union, so what? EU standards on food quality are pretty basic. Like we don’t like chlorine in stuff we plan to eat. And yeah, they ritchest people get better food, and you got the most oligarchs? Whoa, great argument. Still prefer to go to the local bazar with shady food stalls and know anything I get there is most likely times better quality and less polluted than most of what you could possibly get in US. Smacznego.
Restaurants in the US are the worst and most of them source their food from 2 different corporations including Sysco.
Literally the best restaurants on the planet are in the US, but sure, go off.
Like you understand that I’m not talking about fucking Applebee’s right?
Not really sure where you’re getting that assertion from.
By total number of Michelin stars the US isn’t even top five. By Michelin stars per capita it doesn’t even break top twenty.
And even if you don’t buy into Michelin’s hype, the William Reed world best for 2025 is in Peru. In fact, not one American restaurant made their top ten last year.
There’s obviously no objective measure of best when it comes to food, but those are two of the most widely accepted gold standards.
The US has plenty of great restaurants, and plenty of great food, but saying they’re the best in the world seems like a bit of a stretch.
Is this for real? The pentagon has like a trillion dollar budget and yet somehow can’t feed soldiers? Wtf is this clown shit ass corruption?
How can you grift money while supplying great meals to the troops? The leadership in the USA loves the war and hates the troops.
They blew through their budget like crazy the first few weeks of the war.
They’re asking car dealerships if they can help manufacturer missiles.
it went to bougie food for HESGETH.
Moneys is for Generals, not Grunts
Don’t look up how many audits it fails.
That’s easy. Every, the answer is every audit.
most of it goes back in the pockets of the dnc/gop, and the contractors.
Wtf is this clown shit ass corruption?
That’s exactly what it is.
You elect clowns, you get a circus.
You’ve put the cart before the house.
Washington DC is a circus that attracts clowns
Yeah, how can the richest country in the world with the biggest military budget do this shit to the people they really depend on?
Just look at the private sector in contrast. This country mints more billionaires than anywhere else while treating workers AND customers like shit and-- oh wait.
Have you not seen how often Trump has disrespected the millitary?
It’s mind-boggling that he gets away with it, even while everyday Americans reflexively say “thank you for your service” any time they encounter a soldier or veteran.
Yeah I have. It’s bonkers, but it is also indicative of our culture. sadly. That’s why I made a joke comparing the government’s exploitation and mistreatment of military members with the rest of the economy’s exploitation and mistreatment of all the other normal people. In both cases, the people in power are choosing “number goes up a little bit faster than before” over “human life and well being” repeatedly.
while everyday Americans reflexively say “thank you for your service”
I guess flags and pleading allegiance at schools has its effects.
Meanwhile the Pentagon is spending millions a month ordering lobster and steak.
actually it was nearly 50-90billion on that.
And beauty stations.
France: Hey, I’ve seen this one before!
/s
Imagine fighting for this bottomfeeding troglodyte
Anyone who fights for Trump in particular and US imperialism in general is a sucker who deserves anything bad coming their way. No /s.
What is that thing?
Braised condom
Where do you think the evidence from Epstein Island went?
Ironic that the debate is about Iran while the real story is in the tray. US defense budget is bumped up to 1.5 Trillion and yet that’s the return on investment for the people actually doing the deployments.
Separately worth noting, between institutional investors and billionaire land grabs, the US has lost over 40 million acres of farmland to non-farming ownership in the last decade. These two things are connected: when capital extraction is the priority, everything else, soldiers, food supply, communities, gets the leftovers.
Capital extraction is just one aspect. However, one can get a lot of money from transit oriented development just as well. The problem is, that it is in many places plain illegal to develop in such a way and car oriented development is heavily encoraged by regulatiry means and heavy subsidies. There is also a lack in expertise on all levels, in comoanies but also among authorities, in doin stuff any other way than car-only suburbia.
Is anyone supposed to care about this? Fuck our entire military. I hope we don’t need to pull out because they all die first.
We all know Trump failed at The Art of the Deal, now he fails at The Art of War; specifically speaking how Commanders must ensure their forces are well fed and satiated as layed out by Sun Tzu
Still looks better than the shit they feed the kids in public schools. GOP grifters have turned this country into a shithole just like russia.
I have a few questions: Why does that tray look absolutely new? like no scratch marks? I’ve been military, and NEVER saw anything that new.
Am I to believe a ship the size of a floating city doesn’t have non-perishables to last 5 years at least?
The ships can’t be resupplied by bog standard container ships from a nearby neutral/friendly country?
The armed forces that can essentially airlift an entire army within a week can’t airdrop a few hundred pallets on a carrier’s deck? (Nevermind that in the Vietnam war landing a fucking C130 was trialled, on carriers smaller than supercarriers.
Also, the newer super Hercules y way more powerful, has shorter take off and landing, etc…), never mind that heavy helos can lift 4-5 tons, so 10 Sea Stallions or equivalent can put 40 tons of food on a carrier’s deck within hours.
The surface under the tray looks suspiciously like a kitchen countertop, but I haven’t seen a carrier mess hall.
Sorry, but I have a hard time believing it.
The postal stuff I can understand, as it’s really non essential.
I’m 110% against the Epstein wars, but this looks iffy.
https://youtu.be/P0hfSjJksoo At 1:15, I think that’s the mess hall on the USS Tripoli. Maybe they only use table clothes when not at war, or on holidays, or something. I didn’t find what the bare tables look like. Anyways, the trays look similarly new, based on the few shots of them that are clear.
I’m also very dubious that the problems in the US military are an inability to get things to a place. Could this be a vegan that is not being offered suitable meals, or a joke of some kind?
Am i supposed to be sorry for killers just because they’re government employees?
No, you’re supposed to make fun of the US for not being able to maintain a supply line to a war they started themselves.
serving aboard the USS Tripoli, USA Today reported. The image showed a lunch tray that was largely empty with only a small portion of shredded meat and a folded tortilla.
USS Tripoli was one of the last ships to leave for theater. While OP image is not the meal described, I was very worried about which side could the tortilla.
which side could the tortilla.
Please do not the tortilla.
A missing bee could have polinated, what can only be the tortilla on the right side, if shredded meat exists on this plate. Surely, a bee could… nvm that rotten lump could not have been saved.
There’s a species of bee that makes honey out of meat (carrion).
I’m quite certain they wouldn’t touch that thing, whatever it is.
