To me this translates to, “America’s military is being led incompetently and we don’t want anyone to see the real damage being done to it.”

Jesus fucking Christ, this is the stupidest possible way to start WWIII.

To be fair, wars have never started smartly, there is usually stupidity involved.

There are lots of ways to start a war but they all end the same: everyone sitting down to discuss peace. For some reason, no one thinks to try discussing peace first.

How are you supposed to make peace with a pedophile rapist who has staffed his office with racist Warhawk morons who are convinced they can do whatever they want with complete impunity, and they start bombing you while you are under diplomatic negotiations (twice!)?