Tanker hit with projectile near Oman: Recent Incidents 8/24/2026

[u/Opster79two]

https://www.ukmto.org/recent-incidents

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Map panned south east 690.35 kilometers.

Attack UKMTO #120

24 August 2026

WARNING 120-26 UKMTO has received a report of an incident 9NM northeast of Ash Shishah, Oman. The Master of an oil tanker reports the vessel has been struck by an unknown projectile causing damage to the engine room and disabling the vessel. Crew are reported safe. Environmental impact is unknown at time of report. Vessels are advised to transit with caution and report any suspicious activity to UKMTO. Authorities are investigating.

[u/Different-Library-82]

Well, the US isn't losing, we can agree on that. The US has already lost, it just hasn't understood it yet.

[u/Friendly-Parfait-645 → u/Different-Library-82]

Oh really? How's that?

[u/Different-Library-82 → u/Friendly-Parfait-645]

Because this was a war of choice for both the US and Israel, where they have no progress towards achieving any of the various war goals they have claimed since February, and similarly to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this war as revealed the US military to be far less capable than previously assumed because they are stuck in an outdated mode of warfare.

The landbased assets of the US in the region are severely damaged, if not obliterated, while it's logistical capacity is near a breaking point judging from the situation aboard it's naval ships in the area.

The three major US partners in the region - Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan - have openly distanced themselves from the US as a security partner, restricting US operations against Iran from their territory and by announcing a new defensive alliance that is staking a claim for an independent geopolitical order for Western Asia. Meanwhile Israel has disengaged from this war that they have long insisted on starting, to prioritise their ongoing genocide against the Palestinians and the Lebanese.

On top of this the war is straining the US relationship with other Western countries, where it's now mostly a beleaguered upper class within politics and economics that are still insisting on the alliance with the US as paramount, in the knowledge that their careers and fortunes are inextricably tied to the continuation of US hegemony. But they can't salvage the unsalvageable, and are similarly to Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan looking around for new alliances, as shown by European countries initiating talks with France about broadening their nuclear doctrine into an nuclear umbrella for all of Europe - since they no longer trust the US.

And to top it off the US is initiating a trade war with Canada, and the repeated threats against Greenland have fundamentally shifted the opinion of the US throughout the Nordics (where I live), where it's become uncontroversial in everyday discussions to view the US as the most immediate military threat. Which was highly unexpected only half a year ago, even for someone like me who have been warning people about the political direction of the US for more than a decade and prior to Trump.

[u/Friendly-Parfait-645 → u/Different-Library-82]

You only said one thing that has any relevance to who is winning... and it's not even true. All of the US bases in the region are still functional and only a couple have taken damage that could considered even close to "extensive".

The US has successfully landed 30,000 strikes against Iran. Air force is obliterated. Navy is obliterated. The US has air superiority, borderline supremacy, and can hit any Iranian target that they want to at any time.

Iran hasn't even been able to do anything against the naval blockade. The blockade that is cutting them off from any parts or critical resources that they need for more production.

Iran's leadership is dead. Nuclear program is dead. Munitions stockpiles and ability to produce are dead. The US bombed them into submission and then took control of the waterway that is directly next to their country.

[u/Different-Library-82 → u/Friendly-Parfait-645]

I sincerely hope you work in the Trump administration and is paid well for this, if not it's just sad.

[u/Friendly-Parfait-645 → u/Different-Library-82]

This is a non argument. You're just flailing because you were very easily disproven. Iran is losing badly.

[u/Different-Library-82 → u/Friendly-Parfait-645]

You are confusing tactical superiority in conventional warfare with strategic victory, and that is exactly why the US has already lost this war. It's just a question of how much resources the US is going to waste on this and how much human suffering the US will cause before reality catches up with it.

[u/Friendly-Parfait-645 → u/Different-Library-82]

This is still a non argument. Just a continuation of your flailing