🚨🇺🇸🪖 US forces narrowly escape Iran after rescuing a downed airman

Despite Demented Don bragging about his army having carried out “one of the most daring search and rescue operations in US history,” things did not actually run that smoothly.

🔊 The US deployed hundreds of special operations troops, along with warplanes, helicopters, and intelligence assets, to recover a single F-15E crew member shot down over Iran, the NYT reports, citing US officials briefed on the operation.

What was supposed to be a quick extraction turned into a two-day "life-or-death race" involving a firefight, as US forces scrambled to reach the downed airman before Iranian troops could get to him.

✈️ In a final twist, two US transport planes became stranded inside Iran and had to be destroyed, with additional aircraft flown in to complete the evacuation.

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⚠️ 'Kill people, not buildings': Israeli TV host endorses neutron bomb

“Why aren't we using a neutron bomb? It's a type of atomic bomb that doesn't damage buildings, it kills people in a limited way everywhere,” hawkish Israeli journalist Shimon Riklin didn’t think twice before suggesting.

🚫 When mass killing becomes a talking point.

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😡 ‘Why did you fire them?’ - ‘At the pleasure of the president’

Hegseth gets grilled during his testimony at a House hearing.

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🚨US nearly exhausting its stealth cruise missile stocks in Iran war – report

From a pre-Iran war stock of 2,300 Joint Air-to-Surface Missile-Extended Range (JASSM-ER) missiles, only about 425 remain globally available, Bloomberg reported.

🚀 Another 75 JASSM-ERs are unserviceable due to damage or technical issues.

It means that the US military campaign’s next phase against Iran could commit the entire inventory of JASSM-ERs, drawing them from stockpiles designed for other regions.

👉 Stocks of US missile interceptors and long-range strike weapons have been under intense strain since the start of the US-Israeli war with Iran on February 28. At the US’s current production rates, replenishing what has been used could take years.

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🇮🇷😲Iran shows US aircraft obliterated during F-15 rescue mission

Iranian Tasnim news agency has shared footage which it says shows destroyed US Blackhawks that attempted to rescue the F-15 crew member.

💬 "The enemy's efforts ... to rescue the pilot of the downed plane have failed. In the south of Isfahan, enemy air targets were shot down, including two Black Hawk helicopters and a C-130 military transport aircraft ... they are now on fire," an IRGC spokesperson said earlier in the day.

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⚠️ Trump and Netanyahu are both 'violent and unhinged people' - Jeffrey Sachs

Trump is “a paranoid and a megalomaniac. Netanyahu has similar psychological traits. Everything is a test for them of their own world as well as more broadly a test of the American political class mindset of hegemony,” the professor noted.

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🇨🇳🇺🇸👤 Chinese firms use AI to sell US military intel – report

Chinese companies collect information from open sources and process it with AI, turning public data into what they claim can “expose” the movements of US forces, the Washington Post reports.

The firms are also reportedly selling real-time data on:

🔴 American carrier group positions

🔴 Detailed plans for combat aircraft preparing strikes on Iran

Some firms are purportedly connected to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, as Beijing is keeping an official distance from the Iran war.

The Chinese government has injected hundreds of millions of dollars in support of private companies that develop AI for practical defense applications under the country’s civil-military integration strategy.

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🇱🇧 Hezbollah hits Israeli warship near Lebanese waters

💬 "Islamic Resistance fighters attacked an Israeli warship 68 nautical miles off the coast of Lebanon, preparing to launch an attack on Lebanese territory," a Hezbollah spokesman said.

The attack was made with "a naval cruise missile after several hours of target surveillance," he added.

Israel has lost large numbers of tanks and other armored vehicles to Hezbollah attacks in its latest invasion of southern Lebanon.

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😪 Missing US airman? 'Human dimension to the war.' Dead Iranian schoolgirls? Silence

Military analyst Sean Bell deserves some kind of award for stunning, unmatched lack of introspection after saying that the frantic search for the F-15 pilots downed over Iran brought "a human dimension to the war."

Finally, over a month into the conflict, 2k+ mostly civilian Iranian deaths, 25.5k injuries, attacks on schools (including a double tap attack in Minab, killing 180), universities, hospitals, mosques, cultural heritage sites, urban areas, and an array of civilian infrastructure — Bell has found his "human dimension."

Bell's vacuity isn't surprising.

Joining the RAF in 1980, he traveled the world, met interesting people, and killed them in exotic lands from Yugoslavia and Afghanistan to Iraq before landing his desk job as a hasbara propagandist.

"Collateral damage?" So 20th century. In the 21st, your enemies aren't even human.

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🇮🇱🦅 Israel is all throughout CIA and Pentagon – Tucker Carlson

✍️ “Official and non-official representatives of the Israeli government are throughout the US government, at every single level, State and Federal, including the CIA and Pentagon,” the journalist said, stressing how far Mossad has infiltrated the US.

Carlson points out that the US can’t just treat Israel
like any other ally – “we’ll get punished for that”

💬 “Everyone is afraid of being physically hurt by Israel,” he adds.

💬 “There is a fear of them. A real fear.”

Any questions why the US went to war with Iran? 🤦‍♂️

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🇮🇷🥲 From Top Gun to Top Goys: Iran war shreds Hollywood myths about US military supremacy

💬 “Some attribute the dismissal of US generals by a television host – who now also serves as US secretary of defense – to disagreements over a potential ground invasion of Iran,” Saeed Jalili, a senior advisor to Iran’s leadership, tweeted, trolling Pete Hegseth after his purge of a trio of US Army commanders.

“How difficult it must be, after decades of war crimes and bloodshed, for the generals to make a childlike minister understand that war with Iran is not a Hollywood movie,” he added, accompanying the post with a photo of US aircraft wrecked during the desperate operation to rescue a downed F-15 pilot.

👍 He’s got a point.

While the War on Terror-era wars saw the US military get bogged down in unwinnable insurgencies after first kicking down whatever conventional armies they encountered, Iran 2026 is the first conflict since Vietnam where the Pentagon hasn’t even been able to establish overwhelming air superiority, much less gain the confidence to safely insert a ground force.

🤨 And the Navy? It can’t approach to within 1,000 km of the Strait of Hormuz.

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