Navy Secretary Casually Admits Iran “Blew the Hell” out of U.S. Base
It may well cost him his job but for once a U.S. official is open about the damage inflicted on U.S. forces in the war with Iran
It may well cost him his job but for once a U.S. official is open about the damage inflicted on U.S. forces in the war with Iran
The New York Times revealed that there was a “a gulf … between the sobering private assessments that Mr. Vance received and what top administration officials, including the president and vice president, have said publicly.”
In early March Trump warned that the war could last “a month or more”. Then at the beginning of April he declared that the US “could finish the job” in weeks while at the end of August he announced: “We won … “! Proving that when it comes to Trump’s war for Israel, he cannot be trusted
This CBS report on an Iranian missile strike on US Base in Jordan is a limited hangout: in other words a partial admission of the truth in order to conceal more damaging revelations. Other reports speak of more extensive damage and multiple US casualties
A senior IRGC Brigadier General warns that Iran has more surprises in store if the U.S. continues on its current path
“We made all the wrong assumptions about Iran”, says Col Douglas Macgregor. “We are now staring into the teeth of probably the most significant strategic defeat in the last 100 year, perhaps in the last 200″.
In another major embarrassment for the U.S. military, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps announced on Tuesday that they seized a highly advanced U.S. underwater drone in the Strait of Hormuz
Col Douglas Macgregor explains why America’s war with Iran is being fought “for Jewish supremacy in the Middle East” and why the U.S. is now “being forced into ignominious retreat from the region”
Iranian air defences reportedly detected, tracked and destroyed the MQ-1 over the strategic waterway and it brings the total of U.S. MQ-1 drones lost in the war so far to nearly 50. Each drone costs $30-34 million with variants costing up to $60 million
Whether the U.S. Navy “successfully evaded” the missiles, as it claims, or whether Iran simply fired them as a warning, U.S. Carrier groups in the Strait of Hormuz are now within range of Iran’s anti-ship missiles. Includes video
The US has lost around 45 MQ-9 Reaper drones in its war with Iran, plus Tehran’s Houthi allies in Yemen have destroyed another 29. This represents a sizable loss when before the war the US had approximately 189 Reapers
“The U.S. is in deep trouble”, says Col. Larry Wilkerson, former aide to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Moreover, things are only going to get worse while Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz.