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Who has come to a different perspective.
Once again, I invoke the rule allowing posting a right wing source for good reason.
I watched. this twice.
There most definitely is information in this video that you are NOT hearing in the main stream media.
You don't fire generals in the middle of a campaign.
The fact that our aircraft are being shot down MAY indicate Iran has air defense tech our intelligence was not aware of, which changes the whole game.
And he concludes that the leadership is ignoring advice from the generals because it contradicts their political agenda, reminiscent of Vietnam.
As badly as you may think operation Epstein has gone sideways, the truth is far worse.
This is worth watching.
SheltieLover
(80,649 posts)orangecrush
(30,396 posts)SheltieLover
(80,649 posts)mountain grammy
(29,051 posts)They call him stupid McNamara. Good grief.
H2O Man
(79,070 posts)and "the Department of War Crimes."
Blue Full Moon
(3,505 posts)Mission in Iran. When Jimmy Carter ordered Operation Eagle Claw.
Farmer-Rick
(12,683 posts)And tells the world he is not concerned about any anti-aircraft attacks, what do you think the enemy will do? Focus on anti-aircraft attacks.Trump was just asking Iran to take down aircrafts.
Loose lips kill people.
jmowreader
(53,213 posts)Iran has excellent air defense tech. If you'd have had to put up with Saddam Hussein on your western border for 20 years, so would you.
Most of us remember the Iran-Contra Scandal, where Ronald Reagan sold military hardware to Iran to raise the money to fund the Contra Rebels. Iran's goal in the scheme was to acquire air defense equipment. They also have a defense industry that makes ADA systems and they're more than adequate to the task.
I would say, as a retired analyst, that Iran is the worst country in the world to try to establish air superiority over. Their equipment works well and their crews know how to get the most out of it.
orangecrush
(30,396 posts)And your post.
Aussie105
(7,937 posts)'Help me, oh leader of the department of War!'
Department of War puts down bottle and passes the buck: 'Help me, oh generals of the department of War!'
Generals go . . . nope, not today.
Result?
Generals get fired, is Kegsbreath next?
orangecrush
(30,396 posts)Believes the fired General was ordered to do something idiotic that would result in a bloodbath and told Hegseth to fuck off.
Random Boomer
(4,407 posts)The marine makes several oblique references to some "leftie" issue from 2020 in which liberals were not dealing with reality. Have no clue what he means by that. Maybe not relevant to his current discussion on Iran, but I was just curious why he thinks lefties went off the rails.
orangecrush
(30,396 posts)I think he's just trying to keep from losing people who followed him when he was hard right because he's trying to get them to see reality.
radical noodle
(10,601 posts)Just a pure guess.
Martin Eden
(15,648 posts)I would not assume that logical reasons can explain what Diaper Donald and his band of incompetent psychopaths are doing with the military might they just HAD to play with.