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With the Airfield Geolocated by @andynovy , we can now have significant confidence that the area of rescue was in the Kolah Ghazi National Park, South-East of Isfahan, Population 2.2m




Who believes the U.S. bombed those planes? Were 3 planes malfunctioning? I never believe the United States.

@shortmagsmle @Cernovich This is also the reason why the US folds after suffering just a few casualties. Every tinpot dictator knows this. They win every time.

The "leave no man behind" doctrine is actually a strategic weakness disguised as a virtue. Name one other military on earth that destroys 6 aircraft and fights a ground battle inside a sovereign nation to recover one pilot. You can't. Because no other military confuses tactical sentimentality with strategic logic. Soldiers serve the mission. The mission doesn't serve the soldier. The US has now established that Iran can shoot down an F-15, then watch America spend $300M and expose Delta Force trying to prove it didn't happen. That's not military doctrine. That's politics with weapons. A military that cannot accept the risk of loss cannot win wars. The US hasn't won one since 1945.






I’m noticing a lot of foreigners who seem to not understand why we’d risk hundreds of lives, spend millions of dollars, and sacrifice several aircraft to rescue one guy. And the reason they don’t understand is also the reason people can’t be made American by a piece of paper.


Lose all this to rescue 1 pilot and call it your greatest military success of all time.


THAT's MY AGENCY AT ITS BEST: "The C.I.A. initiated a deception campaign to try to confuse Iranian forces, and convince them the airman had already been rescued and was moving out of the country in a ground convoy, a senior administration official said. The agency also ultimately found the airman’s hiding place, passing the information on to the Pentagon, which mounted the rescue operation, the senior administration official said." nytimes.com/2026/04/04/us/…


Lose all this to rescue 1 pilot and call it your greatest military success of all time.



This is also the reason why the US folds after suffering just a few casualties. Every tinpot dictator knows this. They win every time.

Is China cooking its GDP numbers? I don't know. But the US surely is. China's electricity consumption is now 8MWh/capita, vs. 3MWh/capita in 2010. That's proportional to the increase in China's reported real GDP. The US is at 13MWH/capita, unchanged from 2010. We have a lot more GDP in the US, but less industrial production than in 2008. "Real" personal consumption expenditures for health care are at $2.8 trillion 2017 dollars, almost double the 2010 level. That's 18% of our GDP! But are we really consuming twice as much in health care services?
















