I don’t buy it. They’re flying American jets and they don’t have IFF?
They do. But if the US doesn’t communicate, like they didn’t here, then that information won’t be accurate.
Strains credulity

Does it though? This isn’t even approaching being out of the ordinary for this administration.

Everything they do is implemented in the most incompetent fashion, because everyone running this now has no relevant experience for what they’re supposed to be running. They all come through the fascism media news machine and Trump puts them in charge of something as a reward for being a yes man.

Sure, but this would require them telling all the competent people flying jets specifically to be incompetent.

So yeah I buy it

The people flying the jets aren’t handling the logistics of telling Kuwait they’re going to be in the airspace.