"The international military press has been tracking the contradiction between Trump’s public characterization of Iran’s degraded defenses and the operational reality on the ground since the war began. The F-15E shootdown will now anchor that coverage. …

WHAT AMERICAN READERS NEED TO KNOW: On Wednesday, the President of the United States told you that Iran had no anti-aircraft equipment and that its radar was completely destroyed."

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"On Friday, Iran shot down an F-15E Strike Eagle — a front-line US combat aircraft — over Iranian territory, and downed or damaged three more aircraft during the rescue mission. One American crew member is still missing inside Iran. This is not a minor discrepancy between what the president said and what happened."

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"It is a direct and documented contradiction — and the missing weapons systems officer, whose location is currently unknown, is its human consequence. The rest of the world already knows this. Now you do too."

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"Iran’s ability to shoot down two US planes and damage two helicopters in a single day demonstrates that Trump and Hegseth lied to the American people about US total control of airspace over Iran."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/daily-dose-of-perspective-2f5

"Trump saying we have everything under control, that Iran's air defenses are obliterated: I mean, it's just exactly what Pete Hegseth said weeks ago. I think, in fact, on March 5th, he said, in a few days, the two most powerful air forces in the world will have complete control over Iranian forces. skies, uncontested airspace."

~ Robert Reich

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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-planet-is-trump-now-on-the-saturday

"And then we learn, as we learned yesterday, tragically, that an American bomber is shot down by Iran. You know, Iran is supposed to not have any capacities to do this kind of thing."

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"He declared that we had air dominance. I've heard of air superiority. Yeah. But air dominance, well, then how the hell did an F-15 get shot down? And of course, he's going to use this as an excuse. We already have, what, 10,000 or more troops poised to go on the ground. …At the end of the day, this is going to be the reason and the rallying cry for putting boots on the ground."

Brian Karem

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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trump-loses-the-narrative-on-iran

"There's no metric by which Donald Trump is winning right now. He is not winning the war. He is not winning on the economy. He's not even winning with his own base. He's not winning on the Epstein files. He didn't deliver on that. It's hard to think of a promise that he's kept.

And his base has noticed that."

~ Joy-Ann Reid

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https://www.joyannreid.com/p/trump-is-losing-the-war-and-the-country