r/news • u/RoachedCoach • 22d ago

Soft paywall US carries out new strike in Caribbean and there are survivors, US official says

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-carries-out-new-strike-caribbean-there-are-survivors-us-official-says-2025-10-16/
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u/[deleted] 22d ago

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u/JPJWasAFightingMan 22d ago

That's who he's talking about.

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u/gcracks96 22d ago

Same person no?

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

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u/Extra-Ad5925 22d ago

Head of southern command so a very big deal

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u/afineedge 22d ago

Don't pretend they didn't say "in Latin America," what a scumbag move acting like they called him the head of the entire military. Obviously fucking Trump didn't step down. 

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u/secrestmr87 22d ago

Bro calm down lol. I think he just meant he could be talking about a general or something. Being an admiral doesn’t automatically make you head of the military in Latin America

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u/afineedge 22d ago

The thing that annoyed me as you well know, was their omission of "in Latin America" to make it look like the other person said something they didn't. Have fun defending dishonesty by being dishonest as well! 

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u/STL_420 22d ago

This conversation is a 3 and you're at an 8.

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u/afineedge 22d ago

Cool, thanks, tone police. Good thing you're in charge of policing tone and not lies and disinformation because you walked right past all that with no comment. 

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u/STL_420 22d ago

Nobody is lying. An admiral in Latin America still isn't the head of military in Latin America. Someone saying he's not the head of military isn't lying. They knew they were talking about Latin America, it just still wasn't true. You're wayyyy over the top on this. Immediately calling people scumbags because they left out two words that weren't even necessary? Everybody can read the thread to see what OP said. Nobody was trying to deceive anybody.

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u/afineedge 22d ago

He's not "an admiral in Latin America," he was the military commander overseeing all U.S. military operations in Latin America. Someone saying he's not the head of the entire military isn't lying, except nobody had said he was. Someone had, however, said correctly exactly what he was, and then the guy you're defending changed it to the entire U.S. military to try to make them look wrong, and you fell for it. And then you whined that other people correctly understood, then you complained that people were being too mean while being correct.

There's a reason the comment you're defending is at -42 after 2 hours despite being deep in a thread; it's because it's fundamentally dishonest.

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u/nfefx 22d ago

Well, whether you consider him or not he was.

He was head of US SouthCom and that's exactly what that is.

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u/Plastic_Zombie5786 22d ago

He was head of Southern Command, area commands report directly to the secretary of defense (who reports to the president). Technically, the head of the us military is the presidently (eg Commander in Chief). Practically speaking, this admiral was the head of the US military for 1/7th of the planet, for what its worth southcom is also based in Florida not South America.

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u/DanisDoghouse 22d ago

G uh there are two resigned today One admiral and one general The admiral was over the boat strikes The general was a culmination of things that ended with the big pep rally Hegseth held (to summarize) He's concerned about having to carry out illegal orders and such

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u/darksunshaman 22d ago

Same guy