Hawzah News Agency- There remains a lot we don’t know, including the status of the two crew members. These events also puncture the Trump administration’s claims about its complete dominance of the skies over Iran — along with the veneer of impenetrability it has attempted to construct over the past month.
The U.S. president has said for weeks that Iran had “no navy'', “no military'', “no air force” and “no anti-aircraft systems''. “They have no anti-aircraft equipment. Their radar is 100% annihilated'', Trump said. “We are unstoppable as a military force''.
And it’s merely the latest example of Trump and those around him apparently exaggerating military success.
After the strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities last June, Trump repeatedly said the country’s nuclear program had been “obliterated” and cast it as irretrievable. Except that’s not what an early US intelligence assessment showed. And sure enough, just nine months later, the administration again suddenly pitched Iran as an imminent nuclear threat.
Shortly after the war began, Trump falsely blamed Iran for a strike on an elementary school that we later learned was likely struck by the United States, according to a preliminary investigation and other evidence.
Americans have little faith in the mission. And perhaps the biggest problem is economic pessimism resulting from the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the subsequent rising gas prices. Americans just don’t think the war is worth the costs.
Source: CNN
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