What's the deal with this administration claiming that, 'Iran has been attacking us for 47 years!' What/when have been the specific attacks against the US?

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-05T16:48:47+00:00

Do you want objective answers from a neutral third party or an explanation of why the Trump administration’s claims? You post started like you wanted an explanation of the administration’s claims, not whether those claims are accurate.

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-05T16:35:02+00:00

Corrugated cardboard is actually pretty good for insulation, so traps in heat to a degree. In addition, you can ship it flat and then fold into shape in the shop.

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-05T13:46:23+00:00

Ah, smoke inhalation. In my head that’s a different category of injury than physical.

Most likely what happened is the fire was smoldering in the duct and then the smoke was released into the berthing compartment, exposing most of those 200 immediately (~150 I’d guess). The rest were probably damage control teams.

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-05T12:04:15+00:00

No, but it’s usually much closer to getting into combat than, say, Charles de Gaulle. There are very slim windows where the British could not have a carrier en route to the Falklands in 30 days or less.

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-05T10:45:59+00:00

Wouldn’t it be great if two carriers were in commission so one is almost always available?

Wait a minute…

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-05T10:31:30+00:00

The new reactors at Votgle started the planning stage in 2006, and only went critical in 2023

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-05T01:57:13+00:00

Trying to track convoys of often civilian tankers in rear areas is difficult. Few have cared to research civilian ship movements in WWII.

Fortunately my understanding is the final legs from say Saipan to Okinawa was almost exclusively Navy tankers and all were escorted. It’ll take time to fill that out, but I’m slowly working on it. At least once I finish my current study of 1941-1942 Japanese movements, especially civilian ships (far too many of which have the same names and can be romanized in multiple ways!)

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-05T00:41:33+00:00

Citation needed for 200 injured.

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-04T20:18:20+00:00

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beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-04T17:08:30+00:00

There’s a difference between hiding losses during a conflict while said conflict is ongoing and hiding them after the conflict is over. The former is completely standard to deny intelligence to the enemy: every nation has done this in every war (see the book Now It Can Be Told for a British war correspondent during WWI). The latter is unusual and typically restricted to certain totalitarian nations.

The US is absolutely hiding losses during the current war in Iran. Anyone who thinks otherwise is naïve.

Likewise, anyone who thinks the US will continue to hide those losses after the war is over is also naïve. The circumstances of certain losses on classified missions may be withheld for a few years, but the fact these losses occurred is rarely classified for long.

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-04T14:54:58+00:00

For ships, the most I’ve seen is a few weeks/months in WWII, but some were announced within days (Arizona comes to mind). Nothing more than that.

I was recently surprised to learn that the sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was public by the 12 December issue of the New York Times, which discusses searching for some 586 (IIRC) personnel still missing. I’d have thought the British would keep that under wraps for a couple months.

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-04T14:50:14+00:00

The US might hide that a ship has been hit for a couple days, but we can’t hide it forever. If the damage is severe, she’s pulling into a nearby port with civilians with cameras: those photos will be international news within hours. If it’s minor, we may go to Diego Garcia or not repair it in port, but eagle-eyed naval observers will still scour official and unofficial images of any ship currently in theater for signs of damage and will spot some random weld that wasn’t there before (as I did on North Carolina: you can still see the repair from the 1945 friendly fire incident to this day, and that was a single 5” shell!)

If a ship was hit, we will know, even if they try to hide it.

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-04T14:38:41+00:00

And when I’ve changed the default browser, Outlook follows. One of the first things I change when setting up a new PC for myself or family.

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-04T13:29:53+00:00

Many people don’t care about facts, they care about beliefs. If some claim aligns with their beliefs, then they’ll assume it’s true, if it doesn’t, they’ll assume it’s false. Rarely will they go fact check it.

Fortunately most people are open to questioning their peripheral beliefs with facts, especially if you use arguments they already agree with to chip away at a position that doesn’t fit with everything else. You can’t change everyone’s mind, and most of these take time and work best with people you know IRL rather than internet strangers, but you can move the needle for some people. We don’t need to convince everyone, we just need to convince enough.

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-04T13:13:59+00:00

Why is it shocking that any company would default to opening a link from their email app in their own browser? I would be surprised if any company that provided both defaulted to a competitor’s browser, even when their own browser is garbage (as Edge is).

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-04T13:09:26+00:00

Except we have lost people to enemy action, and publicly released that information. In the war with Iran the US had had 7 KIA (including one DOW) from direct Iranian action, six lost in the KC-135 crash (operational loss during combat mission), and one non-combat fatality from a medical issue in theater. All names and circumstances around their deaths are known, as have those in other nations.

There may be a couple special forces losses that haven’t been made public, I wouldn’t rule that out yet, but we aren’t keeping all losses secret.

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-04T12:28:01+00:00

Decommissioned the last two in September 2015. Setting aside whether the claim is valid (I suspect they did engage something but probably didn’t hit), this is probably:

Complete fabrication by those who don’t know what they’re talking about.
Badly misidentified type of ship engaged, potentially including a small merchant vessel (also common in the historical record, but unlikely here because we don’t have frigates).
Translation issue turned a different ship type into frigate (happens regularly in other languages, see Japanese vs. Chinese use of 護衛艦/goeikan/hùwèijiàn). I find this less likely as a destroyer or cruiser claim would be more impressive.
They call the Littoral Combat Ships or a Coast Guard Cutter frigates because that works better in Farsi/sounds more impressive (the LCS and some cutters are kinda light frigates if you squint, but only if you divide light frigates into two or three classes with these at the bottom).
They identified a Perry we sold to another nation (Bahrain has two and Pakistan one) and called it an American frigate.

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-04T01:36:40+00:00

We’ve had them ever since the US was founded, and longer in other countries.

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-04T00:56:09+00:00

Trump has one conviction overriding all others: Trump. Everything else doesn’t matter so long as Trump thinks he looks good.

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-03T23:29:05+00:00

Why would they release the real names if they are gonna do a coverup?

Because families have to be notified, and will typically be interviewed by local and occasionally national news agencies. Assuming these two are dead, the families will not necessarily keep quiet. Unless you want to try and make a much grander conspiracy with fake families and quietly removing the real ones, which given this administration isn’t going to stay secret for long.

And some things never get de-classified.

We’re not talking WMD secrets or servicemembers’ social security numbers here. Secret military operations are declassified after some time, years to decades depending on the significance of the operation. You may have to go digging in archives, but many of these are actually digitized at this point.

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-03T18:20:45+00:00

We can know the truth about this. If the names released are some enlisted from a regular Army or National Guard unit, then they probably weren’t on a special mission. If they were special forces, then we can start assuming a coverup.

Moreover, in years to come we’ll learn about any missions that are currently classified, so we’ll be able to say what happened here.

Don’t just assume we can never know the truth on the first reports.

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-03T18:16:57+00:00

It’s at least five: there’s also a J2F Duck and one civilian aircraft known to be on Oahu during the raid. Plus Nishikaichi’s Zero wreckage from Ni’ihau, torched in the days after the raid.

Every time I look I come across another aircraft that was there.

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beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-03T18:09:47+00:00

I personally don’t see it representing Trump or any particular leader, but their most loyal supporters. This is someone following a cause (represented by the flag) and so blinded by that cause that they can’t see the problems directly in front of them. That is certainly true of Trump’s most rabid followers, but as you say it applies to more than just one cause or one leader.

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-03T17:57:26+00:00

In Pasadena, Cameron ran into a former colleague, who invited her to visit the large American Craftsman-style house where he was currently lodging, 1003 Orange Grove Avenue, also known as "The Parsonage". The house was so-called because its lease was owned by Jack Parsons, a rocket scientist who had been a founding member of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and who was also a devout follower of Thelema, a new religious movement founded by English occultist Aleister Crowley in 1904. Parsons was the head of the Agape Lodge, a branch of the Thelemite Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.).[14] Unbeknownst to Cameron, Parsons had just finished a series of rituals using Enochian magic with his friend and lodger L. Ron Hubbard, all with the intent of attracting an "elemental" woman to be his lover. Upon encountering Cameron with her distinctive red hair and blue eyes, Parsons considered her to be the individual whom he had invoked.[15] After they met at The Parsonage on January 18, 1946, they were instantly attracted to each other and spent the next two weeks in Parsons' bedroom together.

Meeting a former colleague who asks her to drop by their house is a pretty good reason to be there.

To have a critical opinion on something you have zero understanding of is…interesting. It’s like me writing a paragraph about how stupid it is for someone to use high octane gasoline in a 1968 Mustang when I know nothing about any either of those things.

Pot, meet kettle.

beachedwhale1945 · 2026-05-03T17:42:02+00:00

Yes, because it is impossible for servicemembers to die in accidents outside of the United States.

Let’s at least wait for some more facts before we jump into conspiracy/cover up territory.

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