Ranty Man

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THIS IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT MOMENT OF THE ENTIRE IRAN WAR. THREAD. 🧵 Let me walk you through what just happened. Iran shot down a US F-15E Strike Eagle. It went down in southern Iran. The wreckage is confirmed on Iranian soil. The pilot — or pilots — did not eject safely. Iran's Tasnim News says IRGC forces captured them. Iran initially claimed it was an F-35. It was an F-15E. Either way, they have the wreckage. And they claim they have the crew. The US scrambled an immediate rescue operation. F-35s flew combat air patrol overhead. MQ-9 drones monitored the crash site. A C-130 and Black Hawk helicopters went in for extraction. The rescue failed. One Black Hawk was shot down during the attempt. Multiple aircraft lost in a single operation. The US is publicly denying all of it. No confirmed losses. No confirmed POWs. Nothing. That silence is deafening. Now here's where it gets really bad. This morning, Trump said "take the oil and make a fortune." This afternoon, Iran announced they have an American prisoner of war. The same damn day. March 31: Trump said he was "willing to end the war." April 3: Trump says take the oil. April 3: American pilot captured on Iranian soil. The last time Iran held Americans hostage was 1979. 444 days. Destroyed Carter's entire presidency. A POW is not just a tragedy. A POW is leverage. Iran now holds a card nobody can take from them. If that pilot appears on Iranian state television, the political fallout in the US will be unlike anything we've seen. Over 100 legal experts today called the US strikes potential war crimes. Now a US servicemember is in Iranian custody. This is not a footnote. This is the story.