Despite the U.S. campaign, Iran retains enough military capabilities to inflict considerable damage to U.S. service members and America’s allies and assets in the Middle East.
Less than 48 hours after Donald Trump told Americans the U.S. military had “beaten and completely decimated Iran,” Tehran shot down an F-15E fighter jet, setting off a high-risk scramble by U.S. forces to rescue two service members from deep inside Iranian territory. Iran also struck two Blackhawk helicopters and an attack jet that were assisting in the search and rescue effort.
The harrowing incidents have put in stark relief a growing challenge facing the president as the war enters its second month: Despite a daily bombing campaign and his triumphant wartime narrative, Iran retains enough military capabilities to inflict considerable damage to U.S. service members and America’s allies and assets in the Middle East.
Well, decimated means “reduced by one tenth” so I guess technically he was probably correct.
The first thing to die in any war is the truth.
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They lie.
We know they are lying.
They know that they are lying.
They even know that we know they are lying.
We also know that they know we know they are lying.
They, of course, know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying.
Yet they still lie.
In Russia, the lie has become not just a moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
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In the U.S. the lie has become not just a moral category, but the pillar industry of this country. shrugs Must be all that money.
SeeMarkFly (2026)
And an A10… and two helicopters were hit … in one day.
The most competent leadership was forced out in favor of sycophants. Combined with military contractor corruption that surrounds the military budget, and it’s no wonder this looks worse than in the early 2000s
The most competent leadership was forced out in favor of sycophants.
One of the few good things Trump and co did.
One of the 15E pilots is still missing. Now, the Orange Pedo Rapist Felon is announcing a Holy War, which is copying the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Likud Party war cry. Fuck them all.
They have since found the second aviator
It boggles my mind that the Trump admin is at least smart enough to use 1985 machines so we don’t expose modern weapons capabilities to China or Russia, but at the same time that’s likely the only way Iran could take down expensive planes with human lives on board.
Both the US and Israel are using F-35s as well. One even got hit by a heat seeking missile.
