Iran War Has the U.S. Military on the Brink of a “Breakdown”
Iranian counter strikes have taken a heavy toll on U.S. military morale and equipment. With one official telling the Intercept that the situation was “ultimately unsustainable”
Iranian counter strikes have taken a heavy toll on U.S. military morale and equipment. With one official telling the Intercept that the situation was “ultimately unsustainable”
“This is major damage to our bases that hasn’t been communicated to the American public,” one deployed service member told CBS News. “We’re standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in the face.”
Trump’s war with Iran is turning into a debacle. In one 24 -hour period alone Iran shot down three US MQ-1 drones. Each one costs upwards of $30 million
Yemen’s Houthis crash Trump’s war plans by making devastating strikes on Saudi oil assets, including key pipeline that allowed Saudi oil to bypass war-ravaged Hormuz Strait, as global fuel costs soar.
According to Col. Douglas Macgregor, the Trump administration is an Israel first-administration. In that the U.S. “is governed and controlled by a “very well financed group of Zionist Jewish billionaires. I don’t think that President Trump has had much freedom of manoeuvre since he became president”
Each MQ drone coast between U.S. $20-$40 million, with this latest loss the U.S. has lost over 46 such drones or variants over Iran since the war began
U.S. government watchdog confirms that Iranian strikes took a heavy toll on U.S. military/industrial capacity
Iran’s survival under heavy assault offers Beijing and Moscow a live case study in how US forces actually perform in war
Apart from adding advanced Russian and Chinese weapons to its arsenal, Iran also seized advanced US drones. Providing Iranian scientists with a wealth of insights through reverse engineering, to be incorporated into Iran’s own weapons systems
Iran and its allies are determined to stop the flow of oil from the Middle East in order to put pressure on the US to end the war. Trump’s inability to respond strategically is pushing the US towards a humiliating military defeat followed by years of economic decline
Iran’s destruction of the Saildrone Explorer and capture of the underwater drone represent tactical victories for Tehran, but they also risk triggering a broader military escalation that neither side has shown willingness to pursue.
“We know that most of President Trump’s claims of ‘We control the Strait and oil is flowing’ and so forth are just nonsense”. Col. Douglas Macgregor