In the early hours of March 4, 2026, in international waters off the coast of Galle, Sri Lanka, the USS Charlotte, a Los Angeles–class nuclear-powered attack submarine, closed in on the IRIS Dena, a new Iranian Moudge-class frigate.
Submerged, the Charlotte fired a heavyweight, acoustic-homing torpedo at the hull of the Dena. It missed. It fired another. It connected. The periscope footage of the attack was released by the United States Department of War. It shows the shockwave of the torpedo fracturing the Dena’s hull and sending its helicopter flight deck metres into the air.
Within seconds, what was left of the Dena was plummeting to the depths of the Indian Ocean, carrying at least sixty of its crew of 180 to their deaths.
Some moments later, an email was sent from US Indo-Pacific Command to Sri Lanka’s maritime rescue agency. Twenty miles from Galle’s coast, a ship is in distress. Sri Lanka immediately engaged a search and rescue effort that included its air force and navy. The surface of the sea contained clues that a vessel had been attacked and had likely been sunk. But it was not clear whether the attack had come from above or below. They were able to rescue thirty-two sailors, and recover the bodies of eighty-seven others, many of whom had mysteriously broken legs.
The Charlotte had long vanished like an apparition beneath the waves.
This was on the fifth day of the US–Israeli war on Iran, 2,000 nautical miles from the immediate conflict zone.
Ah yes, if only we’d let moral absolutists like you take the wheel, we’d finally have a world where every conflict is solved by pointing at the other side and yelling “No, you’re the baddie!”
Heaven forbid anyone try to classify things at a level above a kindergarten playground.
If anything, you’re the one closer to being a moral absolutist. Iran does some bad things, but they’re also at war with genocidal nazi pedophiles who want to destroy their country. You equivocate the two so that you don’t have to feel uncomfortable.
Nowhere in that comment was I equivocating the two. It’s not like the only two options are “USA bad, Iran good” or “USA bad, Iran bad”. That’s just a false dichotomy and more of the kind of black and white thinking I was criticizing. I also don’t have to find ways to not feel uncomfortable about it simply because I am not an American.
USA is bad, Iran’s kinda good. I admire their work with regards to ballistic missiles and drones, and grand strategy
thank you for making a perfect example of what a nazi would say! Can you say that again while goose stepping doing the roman salute and threatening the destruction of a whole civilization? Your type of people will be remembered as the ghouls that were doing defense for the mass murderers that are set to wreck the earth and that stain will never come off.
Yes, Nazis famously made nuanced moral judgements and never sought to demonize or thought certain groups were unequivocally bad at all. LMFAO.
They also killed a lot of innocent civilians and they were experts at handwaving those murders.
I don’t know about that. I think they were pretty unapologetic about and certainly provided (bad but clear) ideological reasons for all the murdering they did, even making them official government projects. Don’t remember reading much about handwaving except in the context of certain types of salutes.