they say Iran destroyed 8 F-15 planes

At $88M+ each. Also doesn't help that we've curbed our capacity to produce this kind of aircraft over the last decade. Every lost F-15 will take years to replace, if we can replace them at all.

This is complete failure of US intelligence and US navy, This is total failure of republican led military.

Idk, man. It's very easy to say this was an intelligence failure. But what if we had these bases with the implicit consent (or, at least, apathy) of those around them? What if there wasn't any practical defense against an armed uprising of this scale and sophistication?

I do think westerners have this sense of invincibility, such that the only explanation for a defeat is that they misplayed a winning hand. But we fell into that trap in Korea and then in Vietnam and then again in Afghanistan and Iraq. We spend decade after decade fighting these enormous populations of anti-colonial insurgents and losing time after time.

Maybe this isn't some kind of tactical failure. Maybe we just shouldn't have picked another losing fight against a bunch of home grown freedom fighters Islamic Extremists when they'd just finished kicking our asses five years ago.

Its also the equal area Africa, so those dumb americans will have to go round ~20% more land, which the US didnt vote for!

/s for those who overrate their cognitive ability

I wouldn't call this a US failure these days. Quite standard, really.

wow, they really did it, they made the US Navy as effective as Russia's!

Who is Houthis and who did they take the islands from? And are they populated islands?

The article says that it's lightly damaged but serviceable though? Where's your source for the F-15s being damaged?

Our media is compromised, so yeah. They may elaborate a bit, but it is better than being told everything is fine

hesgeth is busy surrounding himself with testosterone laden men.

Kinda tends to happen when you fire everyone that knows what they're doing and replace them with "yes" men and pathetic suck ups.

Trump is a lot more stupid. Putin was confident because he took Crimea and part of Donbas with no push back from Nato

You can call Putin a lot of things, but stupid isn't one of them.

I know right. We still love you Canada, so we're going to send trump up there to help you make some government decisions. Call it a sleepover. We'll drop him off alone at the border tonight, if you can come pick him up and then later tell us when he's done there, thatd work fine. Fair warning ,he'll need his nappies changed. We'll send him with a diaper bag. and fair warning #2, discipline is hit and miss, but we'll trust you to be fair-- and yes we do spankings in our house, and timeouts (aka prison).

After he's done fixing your territory we are going to lend him to mexico, cuba, and then greenland. If need be, I hear the native Hawaiians and native alaskans also want a turn. It takes a village.

/s

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