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  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Bulletins and International News Discussion from August 10th to August 16th, 2026 - Iran and Oman Haggle Over Hormuz / Saudis-Türkiye-Pakistan Form Defence Pact / US Latin American Operations HeightenEnglish
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    Centcom: “Every warfighter on the Lincoln is STRONG AND POWERFUL.”

    CNN - A day after visiting the USS Abraham Lincoln amid concerns over low morale, US Central Command Chief Adm. Brad Cooper asserted in a statement Sunday that the aircraft carrier “currently has among the lowest number of cases related to mental health” out of the Navy’s 11 active carriers. Cooper said in a statement:

    “This doesn’t mean that all is perfect. Find any of the nearly 4 million Navy veterans in America today and they will likely tell you that service at sea for long periods isn’t for everyone. It is uniquely challenging and tough, and every single one of us, including me reacts to stressors in different ways.”

    The commander visited the Lincoln during a 10-day trip to the Middle East amid rising concerns over the mental health of crew members, including suicide ideation, during a deployment that has lasted nearly nine months. Cooper said:

    “I’ve long believed that mental health is another aspect of individual health and requires our attention just like physical health and spiritual health.”

    He told the sailors and Marines aboard the ship to “keep up the great work and fair winds and following seas on the journey home.” The aircraft carrier reached the Middle East in January and has since supported the US war against Iran, including the blockade on Iranian ports. Its combat efforts have prevented it from making stops at friendly ports, where deployed vessels can typically renew supplies and sailors can rest.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Bulletins and International News Discussion from August 10th to August 16th, 2026 - Iran and Oman Haggle Over Hormuz / Saudis-Türkiye-Pakistan Form Defence Pact / US Latin American Operations HeightenEnglish
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    CBS News - Iran’s military offers $30,000 reward for capturing and killing U.S. troops. Iran’s military announced on Sunday that it was offering a bounty equivalent to $30,000 for killing or capturing United States soldiers, with the reward doubled if carried out by a woman. Army chief Amir Hatami said the plan had been drawn up following a “large number of requests” to participate, according to the IRNA state news agency.

    There has been no known deployment of U.S. ground forces in Iran during the Middle East war, except for a rescue mission in April for a downed U.S. airman. “Anyone who kills or captures and hands over an invading American military personnel will receive a reward equivalent to $30,000 or 5 billion tomans from the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Army,” Hatami said, using an informal unit equivalent to 10,000 Iranian rials.

    “Courageous Iranian women who carry out such an action will receive double the reward,” he added. The number of US military personnel killed since the start of the war stands at 17, with the most recent deaths in July. They have all been killed outside of Iran, in countries including Jordan and Iraq.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Bulletins and International News Discussion from August 10th to August 16th, 2026 - Iran and Oman Haggle Over Hormuz / Saudis-Türkiye-Pakistan Form Defence Pact / US Latin American Operations HeightenEnglish
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    CNN - Kushner holds rare meeting with Hamas’ leader in bid to kickstart Trump’s Gaza plan. The meeting between US envoy Jared Kushner and Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya has concluded, sources with knowledge of the matter told CNN on Sunday. The talks, held in El Alamein, Egypt, also included Board of Peace Director Nickolay Mladenov and came as mediators seek to revive President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace initiative, which was rejected by Israel last week.

    No immediate details on the outcome of the meeting were released. Kushner has also held talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and is expected to hold consultations with more regional leaders including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as efforts continue to bridge differences over the proposed ceasefire and post-war framework for Gaza.

    The meeting marked a rare direct engagement between a senior US envoy and Hamas leadership and comes amid growing diplomatic efforts to salvage the US-backed plan following Netanyahu’s rejection of key elements of the proposal.

    Meanwhile on Sunday the foreign ministers of Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt issued a joint statement condemning Israel’s rejection of the roadmap linked to Trump’s peace plan. The ministers warned that rejecting the framework could undermine efforts to end the war and achieve a lasting political settlement.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Bulletins and International News Discussion from August 10th to August 16th, 2026 - Iran and Oman Haggle Over Hormuz / Saudis-Türkiye-Pakistan Form Defence Pact / US Latin American Operations HeightenEnglish
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    It’s hilarious that Trump not only loves saying “billions and billions” - the ridiculous military changes he’s demanding will cost billions and billions: steam catapults and warship redesigns. And that’s just his list so far. I wonder if every month he’s going to want something else.

    WaPo - Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences

    The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more closely resemble those from World War II. The change could cost billions.

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    The U.S. Navy is considering a major redesign of its new aircraft carriers to better match President Donald Trump’s preferred aesthetic for the warships, according to seven current and former U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

    The service is evaluating the feasibility of moving the multistory tower that acts as the carrier’s command center farther forward, toward the middle of the ship, to resemble older vessels, the officials said. The review, which has not been previously reported, is in response to Trump’s concerns about the “look” of the new Ford-class ships, where the tower is near the rear, these people said.

    The timing and extent of the Navy’s evaluation is unclear, with current and former officials cautioning that the service was concerned that such a change would require significant time and money. Like others, they spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive situation.

    Moving that command center, known as the “island,” would be the second major design change prompted by the president, who on Thursday issued a national security memorandum directing the Navy to develop a plan to revert to older steam-powered catapults on future carriers. The systems help launch jets off the ships’ flight decks.

    Trump’s preference, current and former officials said, is for the new aircraft carriers to look more like those that were in service during World War II.

    The Navy also examined the issue during his first term as president, said a former senior U.S. official. A study found that moving the island could cost billions of dollars in redesign costs and significantly delay the program, this person said.

    “It came back that the cost and time to do so would just be extraordinary,” the former official said.

    There are three Ford-class carriers in various stages of development. The USS John F. Kennedy is undergoing sea trials and getting closer to joining the fleet while the USS Enterprise and USS Doris Miller are under construction. The first carrier in the class, USS Gerald R. Ford, is already in service and recently finished a lengthy combat tour in the Middle East.

    Plans call for building up to 10 Ford-class carriers over the next four decades, at a projected future cost of $22 billion each, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and the Navy’s most recent shipbuilding plan.

    Relocating the island would be “a major redesign,” said Bryan Clark, a former Navy officer who studies the service at the Hudson Institute, a right-leaning think tank in Washington. Such an alteration to the carrier’s layout, he said, would affect the ship’s buoyancy and weight and come at a significant cost.

    “You could change it,” he added, “but it’s very disruptive.”

    The Pentagon and the Navy referred requests for comment to the White House, which pointed to the new national security memorandum when asked about Trump’s desire to relocate the island on future Ford-class aircraft carriers. The memorandum does not address the issue.

    Another U.S. official familiar with both the potential changes to the catapult and the island said that the Navy is taking both matters seriously because of the delays and severe cost overruns it could create.

    Trump’s interest in the redesign modification marks the White House’s growing influence over the complex mechanics of naval shipbuilding.

    Since returning to office, Trump has promised to “resurrect” the lagging industry, and he has already issued multiple executive orders addressing the matter.

    Thursday’s national security memorandum would, among other changes, revert the Ford class’s advanced electromagnetic catapult system to steam power. The document emphasizes the administration’s preference for “proven, reliable and affordable technologies and ship designs.”

    Such a change, multiple officials said, also could run into the billions of dollars and exacerbate chronic delays in the U.S. shipbuilding industry.

    The lead Ford-class carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, required 17 years to construct. Its design incorporated new technology that led to delays — including the electromagnetic catapult, a feature the Navy has since credited as being highly effective.

    The Ford class of carriers will phase out its predecessor, the Nimitz class, which dates back to the late 1960s.

    Relocating the island to the back of the newer vessels was done for efficiency and safety, three U.S. current and former officials familiar with the program told The Post. It not only creates more parking space for aircraft close to the carriers’ catapults, allowing crews to reduce the amount of time it takes to launch jets, it also improves landing safety by reducing the chance for turbulence when planes come back to land, the officials said.

    The Navy’s surface fleet has been plagued by years of delayed maintenance and low readiness rates, in part because of how often past U.S. administrations have deployed carriers to confront global crises.

    Amid the ongoing Iran war, the Pentagon under Trump has further stretched the readiness of its carrier fleet while surging naval assets to the Middle East to conduct strikes and enforce a blockade of Iranian ports.

    The USS Ford itself faced an extended deployment that ended earlier this year after a fire rendered many crew members’ sleeping quarters uninhabitable. Officials also acknowledged that the Navy’s newest carrier experienced problems with the “vacuum collection, holding, and transfer” system that supports hundreds of toilets on board.

    Democratic lawmakers this week called on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to investigate new reports of rapidly worsening conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been deployed to the Middle East since November. Families of sailors aboard the Lincoln have been outspoken about the situation, and the Navy is investigating a man-overboard incident it says may be connected to mental health issues.

    While speaking to reporters on a trip to Panama on Thursday, Hegseth called the reports “completely misrepresented.”

    On Friday, as questions continued to swirl around conditions on the ship and its lengthy deployment, Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews that the Lincoln’s time at sea had been “not nearly long enough.”

    The Lincoln is on an extended combat deployment that has seen its sailors at sea for 200 days without a port call to provide the crew some rest. It is scheduled to be relieved by the USS George Washington in the coming weeks.

    Trump has repeatedly shown interest in the design of Navy warships. Last year he unveiled plans for a new class of battleships to lead his vision for a “Golden Fleet,” prompting criticism from many naval analysts and lawmakers who argued the ships would waste scarce American shipbuilding power on a design the service does not need.

    The Congressional Budget Office has since estimated that the “Trump Class” battleships would cost about $275 billion over 30 years, coming at a cost of $18 billion per ship after finishing the first one.

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    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/08/15/navy-weighs-major-warship-redesign-match-trumps-preferences/

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.nettoPop Culture@hexbear.net•[cw sexual assault] Andrew Tate supporters gathered outside of Miami courthouse to protest his trialEnglish
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    CW: the charges

    Andrew and Tristan Tate have been held in federal custody in Miami since their July 18 arrest on a British extradition warrant. U.K. prosecutors are seeking to try the brothers on dozens of charges, includingremoved, sex trafficking, assault, and child-image offenses,

    During the testosterone-fueled gathering, where grown men did push ups in honor of their “Top G,” Andrew Tate, the brothers’ outspoken attorney, Joseph McBride (who has also defended January 6ers), vowed to take their extradition fight “straight to President Trump’s office” and launched into a profane anti-British tirade that included references to the Boston Tea Party and America’s war for independence.

    […]

    Downtown Miami got what appeared to be an unofficial convention of the manosphere, who demanded that the brothers be freed. The smattering of millenial men gathered in the 90-degree heat appeared to span nearly every race and ethnicity, clutching homemade cardboard signs with messages like “Thank you Andrew Tate for teaching us BRAVERY!” and “The Tates are heroes to millions” — though only about 30 of those millions appeared to make it to downtown Miami on Thursday.

    At one point, supporters dropped to the pavement for a synchronized set of push-ups, a nod to Tate’s hyper-masculine online brand. “This is what the Matrix fears!!! FREE TOP G.,” @PrimeTateHQ posted to X.