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at least 12 American troops were seriously, or were injured too seriously, and from what I have seen from some of the intelligence analysts who are out there, is that there is basically no way you could have done this without not only up-to-date, real-time targeting information,

but exact, like exact coordinates to be able to hit very specifically where things are.

I will also note this shows you how unprepared the United States is for a major war.

You have all of these air assets that are just sitting out there in the middle of a runway and obviously within range of Iranian missiles and drones.

Now, the theory was, oh, well, we have interceptors.

And I saw somebody say this.

Do you remember when Ukraine took out a bunch of Russian air assets in almost the exact same way?

How are we not prepared for this?

And it's very obvious.

For years, you and I have sat at this desk and I've talked about Ukraine and Russia.

And for years, I have heard the pushback from many of my friends who are much more neocons.

And they're like, well, we're not the Russians.

They're idiots.

They're losers.

They leave their stuff out in the open just to get hit.

They can't even have air superiority.

They're such a joke.

You're an idiot for considering them such a large military.

oh, maybe we're a little bit more like Russia than we thought, right?

Now, we're not as bad as how they operated in Ukraine, but to take major strategic hits like this and to lose so publicly not only one of these aircraft, but also take all the refueling hits, to take the injuries, and then also to show you clearly there was either a failure of interceptor or we ran out.