uziq wrote:
the myth of american military supremacy has been totally busted and iran is now undoubtedly in control of the region’s choke points. things run on their watch now - netting them $100 billion a year in profits. US bases in the area turned into craters, american allies’ industry and infrastructure similarly smoked. dubai is never coming back to pre-war confidence.
Whatever happened in the desert was not a hostage rescue, or not to begin with.
Lots of analysis pointing out that Colonels don't fly as weapons officers unless they're supervising an operation on the ground, shoulder launched missiles only take out aircraft at low level, you don't involve "hundreds" of troops, land two C130s and unload four helicopters to rescue one person, this was some other operation which went badly wrong.
Pretty funny that Trump gave all this away with his military cringing behind him.
Also why did they leave someone's head behind if there were no casualties?
Glad to see that Israel's invincibility is fully punctured, the air defence system is fairly easily penetrated, much serious damage done, if they do it again they can expect more of the same.
unmitigated and self-inflicted disaster.
Now the deal on the table is worse than the one Obama had.
The Russians must be laughing, they supplied a lot of the intel and equipment, and its been great for their oil income with sanctions lifted - LMAO
I would be confident the Chinese have used this to work out how to track and shoot down stealth aircraft, in the long run this is probably the worst part.
