When I think back to to the invasion/liberation of Iraq following 9/11 one of the features of that one-sided war was how much of it was televised. Remember the Iraqi Minister of Information Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, better known as Baghdad Bob, assuring the viewers that no Americans were in Baghdad while American tanks were visible in the background?
Good times.
Even back to the first Iraq war following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, we had wall to wall coverage and footage of the fighting. It was like being there, other than the not getting shot at thing.
But this time around, in an era when everyone from Wall Street hedge fund managers to goat humpers in Somalia, have a high definition camera in their pocket thanks to smartphones, the footage from Iran, Israel and the surrounding nations caught up in the fighting is pretty sparse.
Weird.
The fog of war is always a factor, mostly for the guys doing the fighting but also for civilians. In the horrific wars of the 20th century families often didn’t hear their sons had died until long after the battle. The worst scene in Saving Private Ryan, for me at least, isn’t the Normandy Landing but when the mother of the Ryan boys sees the Army car coming up the drive and knows they are coming to tell her a son has died, not even realizing it was three of her boys.
Today though it seems like we aren’t getting the real story, only snippets.
When I read Simplicius, admittedly a mouthpiece for Russia and someone that has a deep dislike for America and the West, I get a picture of an unfolding calamity: Disaster: Operation “Stone Age” Begins to Backfire.
What made developments even more interesting is the fact that against the backdrop of a failing military campaign, Hegseth carried out a purge of the US military’s upper echelons. It led to the natural rumors and conclusions that some kind of behind-the-scenes mutiny was ongoing regarding Trump’s disastrous plans for ground operations in Iran—though some of those below were purged weeks ago:
Granted, this is only speculation, with the Pentagon releasing a more ‘ordinary’ list of justifications for the purge—but the timing is clearly too suspicious for this to be believable.
I am all in favor of deeply slashing the ranks of flag officers but the timing here seems a little sus.
According to the “anti-American” sources, not only did the F-15E and A-10 go down but several other aircraft took fire. More outlets are claiming that the casualty numbers are being drastically underreported: “Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East
True? Don’t know.
Read about the same events from a cheerleader of the administration and things are going great, in fact have never been better. Kurt Schlichter was out spinning round and around yesterday, this was before the second plane was shot down.
Meanwhile the Mad King has gone from “liberating the noble Iranian people!” to “bomb them all back to the Stone Age where they belong!”. We are also coming up on Trump’s latest “deadline” for Iran to make a deal, Trump Reminds Iran “48 Hours Before All Hell Will Reign Down” As Search For Missing US Pilot Continues, while Iran has said they aren’t interested in negotiations right now.
Jewsmax is dutifully reporting an “increase in sleeper cell traffic”
So what the hell is going on? I don’t know, you probably don’t know and it sort of seems like the people making the decisions aren’t getting accurate information either.
I will say that if things were going as well as we are told, I would expect to see a lot more video evidence but like I said, I just don’t know. It just seems weird to me.
I’m concerned about the “need” to get American’s Behind this “Righteous War” and a False Flag big enough to trigger “we the people”.
When is an “Iranian Nuke” going to “happen” as you said Jewsmax is prepping the media battlefield as well as the usual Mass Media (CNN and such).
How would I decide if it’s likely false flag? As the Iranians have proven themselves fairly smart in careful targeting and keeping their neighbors well aware Iran is targeting American assets in their countries…
If the “Savage Attack” on America proper is just a bloody slap, it’s fake. Iran doesn’t want Americas really mad at them. If they WERE to attack us it would be a serious multi-target attack to cripple something worthwhile.
Like the Grid?
Simplus may be pro-Russian but over time I’ve noticed his information is often quite on target as shown a few days or weeks later as reports start filtering out.
I am at a point where I will just assume any terror is a false flag, if it is well done it was Mossad, if it was clumsy an obvious the FBI/CIA
If we blow up Iranian civilian infrastructure, electrical plants, bridges, etc…can we call it terrorism when Iranian agents blow up 10-30 substations and transformers here then act outraged, how dare they?
The almost complete absence of footage of any kind from the war is absolutely bizarre. In my mind it can only mean that ‘they’ do not want us to see how it all actually looks. Because real video and real images might reveal that things are not going nearly as well as we are being told.
For instance, how come no footage or reporting from the USS Gerald R Ford ? Could it be that she maybe took a hit from a missile or a drone and got put out of action ? We are told it had stopped up toilets, and more recently a laundry room fire. Really ? Okay, then how come no footage of her transiting the Suez and then docking in the Med ?
And then how about all the different bases we have in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, the UAE, and Qatar ? I have heard that all of these bases have been hit, with multi billion dollar ground radars being destroyed, and with the personnel taking refuge in hotels because their living quarters have been blown up. And just in the last week a $700 million dollar AWACS jet was destroyed on the ground, along with several KC-135 tanker aircraft also being destroyed. And yet, hardly even a mention of these events, let along that there is NO footage and NO reporting from any of these bases
And barely a mention of casualties. So far, the Pentagram has acknowledged a total of around 13,KIA, and a handful of WIA. But with our dozen or so bases in the area being hit repeatedly, it is hard to imagine that there are not many more casualties that they are admitting. I have been thinking that the real number would have to be at least dozens, if not hundreds more than the official number. And the absolute lack of footage or reporting from any of these sites where the missile and drones have been falling makes me think the devastation and loss of life is much worse than we have been led to believe.
It all seems very suspect.
According to the Dailymail (England) if you film an explosion or send it you will be arrested by the Police of Dubai and charged. And everybody leaving Dubai must show his smartphone and let the guards search for this films/pictures.
I saw some stories of people being arrested for that very thing
Zerohedge reported the Ford was unable to launch combat missions for 2 days which for a carrier is a pretty major deal. How did some skivvies catching fire shut down the flight deck?
It’s because the chucklehead Navy brass went all in on electromechanical vs proven hydraulics and steam catapults. I was directly involved in the implementation of the electromechanical EMALS systems. Exceedingly problematic. I was directly involved in recertifying traditional ALS systems. I share a patent on modernizing this recertification. The amount of damage and corrosion from constant exposure to a salt water environment is considerable. How did the Navy brass think sensitive emech systems would fair any better? Madness. Operational availability in the low teens.
I seen pictures of the Ford with missile damage to her stern- it was HIT!
Soooo many thoughts and questions.
We are very short on the “here’s a Hellfire missile going straight up a camel’s ass” videos like we have seen in the last
“wars.” Given, as you said, the proliferation of smartphones and video tech, it seems a mite suspicious.
We have had a shit-ton of bases in the Middle East hit. Why do we even HAVE bases in the Middle East? I know, to ask is to answer.
Looking at the picture of the cashiered generals, I see a lot of “diversity.” Maybe not a bad thing.
Kurt Schlichter is a bag of shit.
Of all of Trump’s decisions – and I’m including the hiring of Omarosa in his first term – the Iran war is the dumbest. I guess he actually meant “KNOW new foreign wars.”
I concur. It’s unfathomable to me that there is basically zero actual footage being given the official media. Sure we’ve got the phone footage being posted on Twitter of incoming missile impacts and a few drone attacks, some of these are questionable and that they could be footage of past events being recycled, are straight up Fabrications of AI.
Considering that there were nightly broadcasts of footage from the field during the Vietnam war, back when everything had to be shot on film, developed, converted to video with a telecine, and then transmitted to network headquarters for broadcast, it strikes me as pretty damn suspect in an age when everyone has a camera in their pocket, and content can be streamed in real time from a phone to the internet (assuming access hasn’t been blocked or jammed) that we are getting almost nothing at all.
Something just doesn’t check out about that.
I am pretty skeptical of any footage I see from either side, I have no way of knowing if it is current or years old. Some looks like AI for sure. All of which raises a lot of questions.
Oh, I’m plenty skeptical as well. With the advent of AI able to create fairly convincing footage from nothing, we are in entirely new territory. I don’t really know what to do about that, as there is seldom any way to independently corroborate any photos or video posted online (or broadcast on tv).
Shows you the power they have of screening everything that comes out of there… Everything that is uploaded or Live streamed has to go through them…Sure some stuff slips through it always does but not enough to give a good enough picture of what’s really happening over there…
>Looking at the picture of the cashiered generals, I see a lot of “diversity.” Maybe not a bad thing.
My first thought as well.
As to the “weird” lack of photos and videos thing, yeah. That said, the few vids of damaged Israeli apartment blocks, bomb craters and so forth on YouTube are really interesting. (I suspect they’re allowed to stay up in an attempt to garner sympathy for the poor poor Israeli victims, but that’s backfiring, big time.) Overwhelmingly the comments are either something about karma, or “now you monsters are getting a 1% taste of the shit you did to people in Gaza” or sarcastic remarks of “those missiles were promised to them 3000 years ago. I literally have not seen a comment supportive of the Israelis. This is … fascinating. The amount of hatred those people have ginned up for themselves is gigantic, huge, gargantuan, humongous, rilly rilly big, you get the idea.
I am all in favor of reducing the number of flag officers and if he is doing it because they are dead weight or because they are DEI hire, go for it! If it is because they aren’t nodding enthusiastically at every notion that pops into his head….not so much.
On the bright side most of those bases are out of commission and hopefully won’t be rebuilt
Or be rebuilt at 2028 prices and turned over immediately to the new Iran-leaning governments.
I cant stand Schichter either. His constant moaning about how the Confederates raised his home town is tiresome.
We’re running out of all the high-tech munitions that allow us to bomb from afar, and they don’t make themselves. The US is not set up to fight a war of longer than a month or so.