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But ships that pay the War Toll that Trump made necessary are passing freely, who needs insurance...
 


🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Pulling that F-15E crew out of Iran didn’t just cost money, it showed how far this war has already gone.

The U.S. threw everything at this rescue.

The F-15E Strike Eagle alone was a $100M loss, but the real damage came during the extraction: an A-10 down ($18.8M), up to two C-130s destroyed ($150–200M), an MH-6 Little Bird gone (~$7.5M), and 1–2 MQ-9 Reapers lost ($30-60M).

That’s up to ~$386M in aircraft alone.

And that’s just the visible bill.

Behind that number was a full-scale operation: CIA locating the pilot in mountainous terrain, real-time intel feeding the Pentagon, dozens of aircraft flying cover, refueling tankers in the air, special operations teams on the ground, and heavy gunfire to keep Iranian forces away during the extraction.

This was a multi-layered combat mission inside hostile territory.

But it came with a massive cost, with real losses, and shows this conflict is already operating at a level far beyond what’s being openly acknowledged.

Source: WSJ, Global Military, NYT
 


So while a wounded American Colonel was hiding in a mountain crevice at 7,000 feet in Iran with nothing but a pistol and a prayer, and the CIA was running a fake rescue convoy to confuse the IRGC, and MQ-9 Reapers were methodically deleting anyone who got within two miles of him, and special operators were prepping to fly INTO Iran, fight their way to a ridge, extract one man, have two planes get stuck in the sand, blow them up, fly in three MORE planes, fight their way OUT...

The American left saw that the White House had gone quiet and decided: clearly, Trump is dying at Walter Reed.

They posted old video from the Butler assassination attempt as breaking news. They cited "credible reports." A guy literally drove to Walter Reed and reported back: no motorcade, no activity, roads open, nothing happening. Didn't matter. The narrative was already at a million views.

Trump was in the Oval Office the entire time, monitoring a rescue op so complicated it already has a Wikipedia page.

And then Easter morning. The Colonel is safe. Every American is home. And Trump posts: "Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards. Praise be to Allah."

On Easter. Signed "President DONALD J. TRUMP."

Say what you want about the man. There is no one on earth doing whatever this is. A Christian president threatening to flatten Iran's power grid and then signing off with an Islamic prayer on the holiest day of his own religion, twelve hours after his military blew up their own planes inside enemy territory rather than leave them behind.

The left thought he was in a hospital bed. He was ordering commandos into Iran.

This is going to be the weirdest movie ever made
 
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