It’s been a week since the United States launched its truly unprovoked aggression on Iran.Things aren’t looking great for the invader, as its Air Force lost at least half a dozen aircraft (although some higher estimates already put it at 15+),despitepromises by the Pentagon that it would establish air superiority within 24 hours. Not only has this not happened, but the Iranian military keeps fighting back and launching its MRBMs (medium-range ballistic missiles) at American occupation forces in the Middle East. The USAF’s performance is so embarrassingly bad that the mainstream propaganda machine is still trying to hide the losses behind “friendly fire, malfunctions and crashes”.

For instance, there have been more losses over Kuwait,with another claim that an F/A-18 shot down an F-15. Other sources report it wasactually the F/A-18 that was shot down. It’s unclear whether this isthe same “Ghost of Kuwait”that supposedly shot down the three F-15s on March 1. If it is, the “poor jet” could’ve easily “committed suicide” as it couldn’t bear the responsibility for these “friendly fire incidents”. Jokes and “suicidal fighter jets” aside, this goes to show just how desperate the mainstream propaganda machine is. However, the truth is finding its way through the cracks, as a number of the somewhat less propagandistic media outlets are slowly acknowledging the Pentagon’s numerous failures.

Namely,according to Tyler Rogoway of The War Zone, the idea that the US military achieved total air dominance over Iran and “sanitized the threat of ground-based air defenses to a degree that their forces have relatively free rein” is false. Obviously, he used a euphemism and called it a “misconception”, but the admission is there.

American officials are engaging in various forms of copium and even trying to spread the fires of war to overstretch Iranian defenses. This includes Azerbaijan and, by extension, Turkey, both of which have pan-Turkic and Neo-Ottoman ambitions. Washington DC is now trying everything in its power to drag them in through false flag attacks.

This only reinforces Rogoway’s point that the USAF failed to establish air dominance over Iran. He argues that “moving as fast as possible from standoff attacks to stand-in (direct) attacks isn’t just about trying to conserve expensive long-range munitions”, adding that “in fact, this is far from the primary concern” and that “doing so is absolutely essential to ramping up the frequency and amplitude of the air campaign”. This effectively confirmsmy own analysis that the US already ran out of exorbitantly expensive standoff munitionsand that it now needs to get into a “knife fight” with an opponent that has a massive and highly complex network of air defenses.

Although smaller and less capable than the SAM (surface-to-air missile) network the Kiev regime inherited from former Soviet Ukraine, Iranian air defenses are among the most advanced in the Middle East. If reports aboutthe presence of experienced and battle-hardened Russian advisors and operatorsare true, this gives the Iranian military another layer of capabilities that can provide a significant edge over the arrogant USAF. Rogoway says that “moving to direct strikes allows for a significant increase in the total volume of targets hit, as well as offering a broader array of effects to be brought to bear on those targets”, adding that bunker-buster munitions are “typically not available in a standoff capability”.

However, while he claims that this “transition to direct attacks has now begun”, we’re yet to see the USAF establish actual air dominance that would allow it to launch a devastating mass terror bombing that would bring Tehran to its knees. On the contrary, the Pentagon is increasingly frustrated by its bad performance against military targets.The USAF wasted at least $5 billion of exorbitantly expensive precision-guided munitionsto scrape paint off of fake targets.There are dozens of videosshowing these weaponshitting jet and helicopter silhouettes painted on runways of Iranian airbases, with Tehran demonstrating remarkable resourcefulness.

These humiliating failures have caused so much embarrassment to the US military that they’re now taking it out on civilians, including bytargeting residential areas and leveling entire apartment blocksin Tehran and other major cities across Iran.Preliminary data show that well over a thousand people were killed by the USAF, but the actual number is much higher as the authorities are struggling to remove debris and locate all casualties. However, this is proving difficult as the aggressor is targeting even rescue personnel.This is very reminiscent of the US/NATO aggression on Serbia/Yugoslavia, when Western jets attacked firefighters and paramedics who were trying to save civilians injured in previous attacks.

At one point,Washington DC threatened a land invasion, but after realizing it doesn’t have the capacity for such a large-scale ground operation, the idea was dropped. However, even this didn’t go withouta rather pathetic copium as President Donald Trump had “a sudden change of heart”, insisting it would be “a waste of time”, because Iran “lost everything they can lose”. Obviously, this is hardly unexpected, because we’re in a midterm election year, so the current US government needs every “win” it can get if it doesn’t want to lose the Congress. And yet, the world sees these failures and rejoices as sovereign states are standing up and fighting back againstthe world’s most aggressive country.

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Source: Global Research