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
Broadly speaking, there are estimates that foreigners and French citizens with a migration background account for two out of three crimes in France
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
The 9/11 attack sparked the “War on Terror”; a campaign that every U.S. president since has pursued. Trump, for example, has bombed: Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen. Plus Lebanon, Palestine and Russia via a proxy. That’s an impressive list for a president who promised to be a “peace president”
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.”