This is pretty standard in blockade tactics, if a ship runs it and doesn't reply to requests to stop, disabling fire is used.

In the video, the ship is warned multiple times to vacate the engine room and they are subject to disabling fire.

I'm loving how hard this guy is getting dragged for his ignorance of basic international law and conflict history since the beginning of time

The war can be stupid and bad, and blockade tactics can be rooted in proper doctrine. It's almost like nuance exists

This is why I have a privacy screen protector. Leave me and my weird shit alone on the subway

The Navy is authorized to wear your "top 3" personal awards as a single row in lieu of a full rack, which takes up a ton of space (pictured) and can get really expensive. It's also just easier to maintain and you see it a lot with senior officers and Admirals

For the love of god get him a top 3 ribbon rack so he can stop dressing like a North Korean general

Such a snowflake that tepid media criticism of his big boy war is somehow unpatriotic

Xi is going to walk him like a dog. He’s going to tell Trump to halt Taiwan arms sales and refuse to defend it, and Trumps love of dictators will have him nodding along

LOL stay mad assholes

You should see some of the no-talent frat boys that are somehow Assistant and Deputy Secretaries at State. God it’s fucking terrifying

Eat shit pissboy

When Rhodes acted like a fartsniffer expert on his podcast while pronouncing Kim Jong-UN with a soft j like he’s Spanish, I wanted to burn my IR degrees

Art of the deal. Checkmate libs

I mean at least he gave an honest answer for fucking once

He perpetually lives in 1987 so this makes perfect sense in his oatmeal brain

It’s definitely that time of year. The number of obese dads in US flag or Facebook-ass military shirts blocking the Metro doors in the morning has risen exponentially

Does fuckhead not remember that bases have gates, fences, and armed guards to keep out assailants?

This. my unfortunate dealings with CENTCOM have been poisoned by the contractor types who came up as active duty during GWOT and still have a burning hatred for Iran and want to do nothing but fight a counterinsurgency forever and do Israel's bidding

“We have all the cards, they have none.”- A guy whose casinos went bankrupt

It’s getting exhausting trying to explain this. Also like democracy and shit too, that’s important, Bill and Sally in Oshkosh

Also the word "mostly" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting here

I've said it before: as a mostly competent O-4, I have no business being that high up in DoD. So a FOS O-3 Guardsman with booze and abuse issues isn't even qualified to clean the E-Ring heads

Everything military and diplomatic personnel fought for for years while overseas (ABO, etc) wiped out in one fell swoop of dumbassery from the WH

This is why I need to stay in past 2029. I’d fail these loyalty tests hard when applying for GS positions

As if we needed more proof that these babies are afraid of facts, knowledge, and any shred of accountability for their actions

The latest nonsense rushing to our news feeds

*SCREAMS IN INDOPACOM*

The sanewashing of this administration of ghouls never ends