March 11, 2026, the American aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Ford was disabled and had to withdraw from its post to 200 miles away from combat by a $20,000 Iranian drone, which flew over the water at an altitude for 15 feet, evading the carrier's radar, then jumped up the the flight deck where sailors where refueling an airplane and exploded.
At least, that's what you can see on a few YouTube channels. In the time of AI and depleted journalism, it's hard to know who or what to believe. But if this is true, then the United States is losing this war.
If a $13 billion dollar weapon was disabled by a $20,000 drone, then the United States can strut around all it wants, but it's fallen into a trap of hubris.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH50tJNE3tU&t=122s
Pete Hegseth keeps telling us we are bombing them back to the Stone Age, and the Pentagon is releasing videos showing us playing a video game with Iran, but Mad Dog remembers the war in Vietnam where the U.S. had air supremacy over Hanoi and the whole of both Vietnams, north and south and it didn't matter a damn. The North Vietnamese still beat the U.S., and United the country.
Images of LBJ, standing on the bridge of an American carrier watching the launch of American jets which pummeled targets in Vietnam, dropped napalm, roared louder than lions, all without any effect to win the war.
Crowds cheered as cavalry rode off to fight in the First World War, looking fearsome and proud. But machine guns, barbed wire, trenches and tanks ultimately rendered those horse mounted warriors ridiculous.
Iranian drones may be making American jets and surface ships look impotent and ridiculous.
The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong had multi-leveled tunnels with hospitals and HVAC built in concentric circles around Saigon. None of them were the least bit impeded by those jets roaring over LBJ's head.
Americans: We make a lot of noise, build expensive machines, but we haven't won a lot of wars lately against really smart determined enemies--not in Afghanistan, not in Vietnam and not, apparently, in Iran.
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Of course, with the advent of AI, it's difficult to know whether the YouTube clip embedded in this post is even real, but when you see multiple stories across different sites, it does appear that some things are likely true:
1/ Iran has not suffered a significant degradation of its missile arsental and in fact, it is likely the US which has begun running out of missiles and interceptors.
2/ The flow of Patriot missiles and similar systems to fight in Iran has bled away the availability of those weapons for Ukraine, which is now in danger of being disarmed by the war in Iran. So Putin is very happy about the US being bled by Iran.
3/ The Iranians do now and will likely for some time in the future, control the Strait of Hormuz and that allows Iran to wreck havoc on Western economies.
4/ Iran has said that if the US attacks the power grid in Tehran, it will sink the USS Ford aircraft carrier and it is possible, given it's first successful attack on that ship, that it may just be able to do that, unless the Ford hightails it out of range.
Overall, it looks like Hegseth and Trump were simply too stupid to do the chess game, and the Iranians are much smarter and, to use Trump's phrase, they hold all the cards.
