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US forces locate and evacuate downed airman in Iran
- plaguna 6mo agoThere are Hollywood studios knocking at their door for the story as we speak.
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- ls612 6mo agoBlack Hawk Down but with a happy ending.
- verdverm 6mo agoThey already did this one in Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
- defrost 6mo agoThis time round it might hard finding any Australians to play the lead roles.
- nicbou 6mo agoI’m reminds of that tweet about how America will bomb a country and then go back in 20 years and make a movie about how sad doing it made the soldiers.
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- ModernMech 6mo agoProbably the same audience that went to see 13 Hours
- anovikov 6mo agoNow imagine that: Russians recover a downed Su-34 pilot from Kremenchuk (distance is the same). A Su-34 can't even fly to anywhere close to the border/frontline - haven't since late April 2022 after several dozen attack aircraft of all sorts were downed in the first 2 months having achieved almost nothing. The late of Russian air defence have fallen apart completely. One could argue that Venezuelans of Iraqi weren't good at operating them, but Iranians are certainly extremely competent using every piece of gear they get their hands onto.
- Rotdhizon 6mo agoAn interesting perspective I see all over X and reddit is calling these people heroes, but only once the rescue happened. The more tame responses simply state that they are happy everyone was rescued and no military was harmed. Why? Those pilots were flying over Iran illegally, presumably to inflict fatal harm on whichever targets.
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- hollerith 6mo ago>Without Israel, all Western civilisation is toast. Why is that?
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- ozlikethewizard 6mo agoThis is barely an argument so I'm not going to bother engaging too much but two things, conflating Judaism and Israel is anti-semitic as hell, and ethno-states are bad.
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- C6JEsQeQa5fCjE 6mo ago> Without Israel, all Western civilisation is toast Before Israel was established in 1948, was Western civilization toast? Or was it the power of the "western civilization" that conquered and ruled the world for centuries beforehand that allowed the creation of Israel?
- xyzzy123 6mo agoConversely I find it strange how many people seem to want US servicemen to come to harm because it would validate their political views.
- jacquesm 6mo agoThe ridiculous amount of focus on this one individual vs the complete lack of attention for the thousands of Iranians already dead is very disturbing.
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- Glawen 6mo agoHow twisted as it sounds, I do believe that the outcome is beneficial to the US. China and EU are weakened by this mess big time. The US will bear costs in the future. EU does not expect to be paid back for Ukraine, they are paying with their lives and by being a lab for testing weapons and strategies. I'm just flabbedgasted by pro russian europeans thinking it'll be great to live under Putin. It's not like it hasn't been the case already.
- spwa4 6mo agoEU aid for Ukraine (yes this is a chatGPT overview): Ukraine Facility (2024–2027): €33 billion of €50 billion is loans → 66% MFA+ for 2023: €18 billion, all loans Exceptional MFA backed by Russian-asset revenues (2024 package): €18.1 billion disbursed so far, loan New EU package for 2026–2027: €90 billion, loan Adding those together gives about €159.1 billion in loans out of €176.1 billion, or roughly 90% loans. Oh, and before you ask, 2 out of 3 are not low-interest loans (only the one where the interest would go to Russia). If you're in France or Germany, your mortgage is cheaper than what Ukraine is paying the EU to defend itself from Russia "with EU help". And, yes, one might even point out that this means that Trump is correct when he says the US has given more to Ukraine than the EU. Given more, loaned (much) less. EU help consists 90% of allowing these loans in the first place.
- LAC-Tech 6mo agoThe smartest thing Trump could do right now would be to take this as a "victory" and end the war.
- karmakurtisaani 6mo agoI think he would have liked to end the war a while ago, but Iran and Israel disagree, so he's stuck.
- donkeybeer 6mo agoLet them fight till death then. Not an American problem.
- karmakurtisaani 6mo agoIsrael disagrees.
- donkeybeer 6mo agoThey are free to disagree. America can withdraw anytime it wants. Let Israel fight whoever they want to fight and cry as much about America as they want.
- DivingForGold 6mo agoFROM PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP WE GOT HIM! My fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History, for one of our incredible Crew Member Officers, who also happens to be a highly respected Colonel, and who I am thrilled to let you know is now SAFE and SOUND! This brave Warrior was behind enemy lines in the treacherous mountains of Iran, being hunted down by our enemies, who were getting closer and closer by the hour, but was never truly alone because his Commander in Chief, Secretary of War, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and fellow Warfighters were monitoring his location 24 hours a day, and diligently planning for his rescue. At my direction, the U.S. Military sent dozens of aircraft, armed with the most lethal weapons in the World, to retrieve him. He sustained injuries, but he will be just fine. This miraculous Search and Rescue Operation comes in addition to a successful rescue of another brave Pilot, yesterday, which we did not confirm, because we did not want to jeopardize our second rescue operation. This is the first time in military memory that two U.S. Pilots have been rescued, separately, deep in Enemy Territory. WE WILL NEVER LEAVE AN AMERICAN WARFIGHTER BEHIND! The fact that we were able to pull off both of these operations, without a SINGLE American killed, or even wounded, just proves once again, that we have achieved overwhelming Air Dominance and Superiority over the Iranian skies. This is a moment that ALL Americans, Republican, Democrat, and everyone else, should be proud of and united around. We truly have the best, most professional, and lethal Military in the History of the World. GOD BLESS AMERICA, GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS, AND HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!
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