"Less than 48 hours after Donald Trump told Americans that Iran had 'no anti-aircraft equipment' and that its radar was '100 percent annihilated,' Iran shot down a United States Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle over its own territory."
~ Rudy Martinez
#Trump #Iran #war #airspace
/1
https://www.chicanoinparis.com/p/the-rest-of-the-world-report-april-8e8
"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."
"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."
"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
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #airspace
/5
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
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #airspace
/6
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-planet-is-trump-now-on-the-saturday
"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
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #airspace
/7
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trump-loses-the-narrative-on-iran
And Pam Bondi gets thrown under the bus.
"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
#Trump #ApprovalRating #Iran #war #economy #Epstein #MAGA
/8
https://www.joyannreid.com/p/trump-is-losing-the-war-and-the-country
A recording from The Joy Reid Show's live video
"This is not the run-up to the midterm elections that Republicans wanted."
~ Steve Peoples
#Trump #ApprovalRating #Iran #war #economy #Epstein #MAGA
/9
Donald Trump won the presidency by promising to lower costs and end wars. A year and a half later, he is a wartime president contemplating whether to send U.S. ground troops into an expanding conflict in Iran. Gas prices are spiking and Trump is urging Americans to be patient. Everything adds up to a perilous situation for Republicans in the midterm elections, which will determine control of Congress. The president did little to sell the war to skeptical voters before it started, and he defended his leadership on Wednesday night in his first major presidential address on the conflict.
"U.S. Central Command’s official X (Twitter) account has been inactive for over 24 hours, even as the conflict reaches one of its most critical moments for U.S. forces. It comes as U.S. forces are urgently racing to locate a missing crew member after an F-15E fighter jet was shot down over Iran."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war
/10
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-pete-hegseth-purges-generals
Good morning everyone.
"I think we should all probably pause and give thanks for the fact that the US, in the words of our dear leader, is 'winning bigger than ever'. Indeed many people are saying that nobody in the history of humanity has ever been as emotionally mature or strategically brilliant as the man spending all our taxpayer money on bombs."
~ Arwa Mahdawi
Paul Krugman looks at Trump's alarming Easter message today threatening to reign [sic] down hell on Iran and ending, Glory be to GOD!, and says that this does not sound like Trump, certainly not the defeated Trump who spoke on t.v. on Wednesday.
Krugman says,
"That sounds almost as if Pete Hegseth wrote this post, which maybe in some sense he did."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war
/12
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-trump-isnt-sounding-like-himself
And that's terrifying
"This is really bad. It’s hard to see what happens in 48 hours. It’s clear that Trump, for all his pretense of, 'I’m always winning,' is aware of how completely he screwed things up, that he’s aware that he has basically led America into an epic strategic defeat. …
This guy should not have any authority at all."
"Finger on the button, although I don’t think we’re talking about nukes, but he shouldn’t have any authority on matters of state violence when this is the kind of mood he’s in. Just in general, although religiosity is often expected of American leaders, saying glory be to God before you unleash violence, that is not what used to be the American way."
":Let’s just be clear about what the losses look like at this point. One F-35 damaged. Four F-15E Strike Eagles lost in total. One A-10 Thunderbolt II shot down. One E-3G Sentry AWACS, the crown jewel of U.S. airborne surveillance, destroyed. Eight KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft either destroyed, crashed, or damaged, several of them unusable."
~ Ben Meiselas
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/saturday-afternoon-updates-trump
Hi all, Ben here.
The headline on the right-wing-nut sites will be “Jewish radical leftist tries to ruin Easter.”
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