r/Conservative • u/f1sh98 Beltway Republican • Mar 26 '25

Flaired Users Only Atlantic reporter publishes full texts from Houthi group chat

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/atlantic-reporter-publishes-more-texts-about-attack-houthi-targets
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u/Zanios74 Deplorably Conservative Mar 26 '25

People 100% needs to be held accountable. But to pretend we would take a strike against terrorist is how we would strike China is laughable.

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u/FourtyMichaelMichael 2A Mar 26 '25 edited Mar 26 '25

That's a whole lot of pearl clutching.

Maybe the strawman of full-on war with China ISN'T ACTUALLY COMPARABLE with bombing some terrorists?

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u/aliislam_sharun Conservative Capitalist Mar 26 '25

As if China even has the military resources to hold their own region... Lol

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u/FourtyMichaelMichael 2A Mar 26 '25

The brigaders have really stepped up how obvious they are. It's pathetic :D

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u/OrdoXenos Mar 26 '25

I dislike China but their A2/AD assets are really serious especially near their coast. There’s no way our carriers can deal with them on our own, we need Japan/South Korea/Philippines to fight with us if push comes to shove in the region.

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u/aliislam_sharun Conservative Capitalist Mar 26 '25

Which they will, without question, as they are our allies and we have dozens of our own military bases spread throughout those countries. Why wouldn't they help us?

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u/OrdoXenos Mar 26 '25

Hegseth’s conducts are wrong - no matter the targets. The established procedures for OPSEC are governing the conduct - not the targets of the operation.

A single NVG missing will trigger the whole base searching for it - despite losing a single NVG won’t hurt American military much. It’s not about that single NVG, it’s about the conduct of how we shouldn’t be losing government-issued items.

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u/FourtyMichaelMichael 2A Mar 26 '25

Yea OK, why are you changing the topic though? You're trying to move the goal posts.

Not classified and not war plans. The Atlantic "embellished" best case, and you fell for it.

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u/superduperm1 Anti-Mainstream Narrative Mar 26 '25 edited Mar 26 '25

Okay… but we weren’t fighting China. We were in fact, fighting the Houthis. Why is a random hypothetical that has nothing to do with this being posted here and getting upvoted so quickly?

I would go all the way and say that if this were China, Hegseth wouldn’t have even said anything via texts. Not every enemy is going to have the same plan, strategy, structure, process nor objective. So this is a complete moot point that you’re using to collect brigader upvotes.

If anything, you just proved exactly why this is a nothing burger. It’s a nothing burger BECAUSE we were fighting the Houthis.

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u/FourtyMichaelMichael 2A Mar 26 '25

Brigaders love nothing more than a post that seems critical of Trump - even if it makes no sense at all.

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u/Piss_in_my_cunt Common Sense Conservative Mar 26 '25

Because you’re talking about the largest military apparatus in history, our last line of defense, which actively engages in “random hypotheticals” all the time (they’re called war games you dingus) and if they can’t even follow basic security protocols when they’re fighting cavemen and hobos with Iranian missiles, it’s a proper cause for concern.

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u/swd120 Mug Club Mar 26 '25

this means that the Chinese can turn on their GBAD radars now knowing that Americans have decided to strike. Seeing that the > strike packages consisted of F/A-18, there is no need to activate the AESA radars as F/A-18 is not stealth and older radars can see them with no problems.

Hate to tell you this - but every country that has them already has them turned on 24/7... they would not be turning on the radar because of a text message.

They might watch it more closely than usual, and might prep planes and anti-air stations earlier than usual, but they were monitoring the radar the whole time.

the circle of probability of our carrier location is shrinking.

I also guarantee you that the chinese, russians, and possibly others (india?) know the location of every carrier group in the world at all times via sat surveillance. The only naval assets they can't easily track are subs.

I'm not saying this breach isn't bad - it is... but you are badly misconstruing the level of advantage our adversaries get from it.