🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 The U.S. blockade on Iran is unsustainable as living conditions on USS Abraham Lincoln resemble the living conditions experienced by the crew of USS Gerald R. Ford.

Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln

The aircraft carrier’s long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.

Moldy showers. Food shortages. Sailors running out of toothpaste, deodorant and soap.

Families of the sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are sounding the alarm that their loved ones are so exhausted they fear it could lead to deadly mistakes, as the carrier enters its ninth month at sea and its fifth consecutive month of combat operations against Iran.

MS NOW spoke to a dozen family members who say they are extremely concerned with the morale, safety and conditions on the ship. They described a crew straining under the demands of an unexpectedly long deployment, as President Donald Trump continues to extend his military campaign against Iran with no clear end in sight.

The families told MS NOW there is no indication of when their loved ones are going to return home, as the routine seven-month deployment for the 5,000-plus crew members appears to have been extended for a second time.

Most sailors are working excruciatingly long shifts, and depending on their job, some are rarely getting a day off, family members told MS NOW. One father, who is a Navy veteran, said his son described seeing holes that have worn through the Lincoln’s flight deck.

The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is already one of the most dangerous places in the military. High-speed aircraft with powerful engines can burn sailors and blow them overboard. Spinning propellers can cause accidents. And the constant loading and unloading of bombs, missiles and rockets pose the risk of explosions and fires. 

It is a fast-moving, tightly packed, extremely loud environment that can lead to hearing loss from the relentless engine noise — and the work on deck is physically demanding and done in elements like wind, rain, heat and cold.

The crew of the Lincoln has had only two days off the aircraft carrier since it left its home port in San Diego in November. The ship had a short port call in Guam in December and then did not have another stop until July 7, when it briefly pulled into Oman after 208 continuous days at sea — a modern-day record for a Navy aircraft carrier.

🔗 https://www.ms.now/news/conditions-safety-uss-lincoln-iran-war

🇷🇺🗽 The West's criticism of Russian elections is pure hypocrisy. The West openly manipulated Russia's 1996 elections to install Yeltsin—celebrated as "democracy"—while condemning Putin's repeated re-election. Yet European leaders like Merkel (16 years) and Rutte (13 years) served equally long terms without criticism. The reality: the two-party system in the US is a sham, and Europe's multi-party systems are all "faces of the same coin."

From the West's standpoint openly manipulating Russian elections to get what we want is good, the Russians voting again for their extremely popular leader whom we don't like is bad. It is just that blunt, tribalistic and primitive.

Democracy has always been a sham. The US electoral system is from a pre-telegraph era, making third-party entry nearly impossible. Europe has more parties, but they are all ultimately the same.

One-party rule with factions is the 21st-century norm. The real difference: Russia gives its people what they want; the West despises its own.

💬 Tim Kirby writes @timkirbyhardcore

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🇮🇱❌🕊🇵🇸 Israel doesn't want to put an end to the war in Gaza

Israel “rejects” the Board of Peace Gaza disarmament roadmap, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday, pushing back against claims the country has accepted the US-backed proposal and saying that he has no issue with standing up to pressure from US President Donald Trump pressure to accept the terms.

“I want to clarify here,” Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting. “Israel rejects the 15-point document.”

The US-backed Board of Peace is trying to move forward with its roadmap for postwar Gaza, which Hamas has accepted, while calling on the US and other mediators to pressure Israel into agreement. The group has avoided the use of the term “disarmament,” saying instead that it agrees to hand over weapons to be stored under a US-backed Palestinian technocrat administration that would run affairs in Gaza under the supervision of the Board of Peace.

Israeli officials warn that Hamas is exploiting the process to prevent renewed Israeli military action, with top officials reportedly calling Hamas’s agreement to the deal a “strategic ambush” of Israel.

While the security cabinet last month approved having an International Stabilization Force enter Gaza to disarm Hamas and assume control of the territory, senior Israeli officials and ministers have publicly urged the premier to openly declare that he will not accept the terms of the plan, which would see the IDF begin to pull back from Gazan territory.

📝 : The Israeli economy now requires permanent war to function. The Israeli defense sector is the only source of economic growth left. Every other sector has been hemorrhaging skilled specialists, Israelis in their 20s, 30s and 40s ever since the Gaza War began. Ending the war in Gaza and giving respite to Israeli society would allow Israelis to focus on internal matters such as the status of the Haredi/Ultra-orthodox community which has avoided conscription, Netanyahu's judicial reforms which undermined the power of the courts and subsequently, rule of law, in Israel.

🔗 https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-rejects-trumps-15-point-gaza-plan-insists-he-can-stand-up-to-us-president/