***TBH I had a lot of different ideas for what to title this, and, well, given the systematic nature of the following post that addresses almost every single one of his (@Solomonsatosh) lies till I got bored, ta-da. It's one thing to have an opinion; it's another to fail to do basic research and spread blatant falsehoods. I was on a work trip, so I wasn't really paying attention to everything he tagged me in, but here is the response he clearly wants.***
I keep seeing the exact same stuff over and over again about the Iranian drones being taken down by $15 million missiles or interceptors, and to those who think that is the case, I hate to break it to you, it isn't true.
In his most recent rant about the impending doom and gloom of America (feel free to read the brain rot, or do what I did and waste time watching the videos #1459876), he naturally starts out with a copy-and-paste of almost the exact same 5-6 sentences he uses in every post. However, to his credit, he does try to actually use some numbers to back himself up.... Now, are they accurate or real numbers? No, but he tries. Let's go through how he butchered this one.
He loves his China (they gotta pay hella well to spend as much time as he does shrilling for them when the facts continue to say the opposite) and mentions Wing Long 3 drone factory, a China/Saudi Arabia partnership, and claims it is due to the US failure of delivering AMRAM's.... Quick question for him then is, why is this factory not producing well air-launched missiles? Why is the goal of it to produce 48 long-range drones annually? That isn't what an AMRAM is supposed to do. A drone and a missile have two completely different purposes, and the goal is to produce 48 a year?! How many millions per drone is that to get your $5 bil investment back?
Apparently, according to him and his super-accurate information, the U.S. and Israel have run out of interceptors. Well, we were supposed to only have a week to 10 days, worth 3, almost 4 weeks ago now, and yet we continue to knock missiles and drones out of the sky. Iran claimed this morning to have launched missiles at the Abraham Lincoln Carrier, but we noticed the ship wasn't hit... The mental gymnastics he has to do to come up with this stuff is just wild. Over the first 23 days of the conflict, Israel has had a 92% success interception rate, which is an unheard-of number for the sheer number of missiles, drones, and artillery launched at the country. No one else, including the US, has a layered system that has shown time and time again it can hold its own. Sidenote... I couldn't find anything about Iran striking Israel's "main military airport base" as Israel, like every other country in the world, has major airbases spread out across the country. It doesn't just have a single one that is the "main".
He starts off saying that SM-6 interceptors cost $4.9 million and an Iranian drone cost $7k. The issue here is two-fold, one the SM-6's primary purpose is not to shoot down drones... it is used to target ballistic missiles in their terminal phase as well as cruise missiles. Can it be used to hit a drone? Yep, but is that what we are using it for? Not really, it's an option, but it isn't the primary use. Has it been used as a case of last resort to protect valuable assets? Also yes. The second issue is his claim of an Iranian drone costing $7k, and well, that's not even what Iran says they cost, and to find that number, I had to dig, and it appears he is factoring in cheaper labor and mass production (two things that are no longer possible for Iran). He also fails to consider how costly a $7k drone is for Iran compared to the cost to the US. Purchasing power is a huge factor here, and outside sources note that the US can afford to produce interceptors ranging from $50k to $1 million because, to the US, the price is the same as Iran's $7k drone (even though Iran has said it is between $20 and $30k a drone).
Google obviously isn't available in New Zealand, I guess, because we can reload vertical launch cells at sea... It was a huge worldwide news story when we did it in 2024, and it wasn't just a one-off. Now it is something we do, so the destroyers can keep going as long as they get fuel and supplies, which they clearly have, or they all would be empty by now. Not to mention, we have at least one, though it's rumored to be 3, using direct-energy weapons to take out drones. There are confirmed cases of its use in this conflict.
We also have the good old US doesn't produce enough of these a year, however, over the last few years (since we have been providing/allowing US arms to Ukraine), the military and defense partners have rapidly expanded capabilities with defense companies finishing up the expansions that they needed to (for example, Raytheon expansion in Alabama is almost complete) and by the end of the year 4x the number of missiles will be produced. That 125 SM-6 per year will be at 500 SM-6 per year by the end of the year.
Remember in 2023, when fertilizer was in short supply because the Russian-Ukrainian war was directly taking out global suppliers? Well, here we are 3-4 years later, alive. Most of that LNG and oil, for that matter, goes not to Europe but to Asia. That is who is getting crushed the most by this. Russian companies are a terrible metric because when the Russian war kicked off, they lost over a million people going to places like the UAE. Those people hate Putin, hence why they ran. The UAE was also a huge hub for facilitating Iranian money laundering, and guess what has happened. The UAE is punishing both countries now, especially since Russia is helping Iran with targeting, and they are still missing and hitting civilian infrastructure. It was just a couple of months ago that the UAE/Saudi partnership was destroyed with Yemen and Sudan, but now, suddenly, they are stronger than ever.
I really could go on and on about all of these points you tried to make, like how Chinese Naval ships are not the same as the American ones. You can't just slap stuff on a regular boat and turn it into a military one, like China has done. Or if you are going to guess who else will do that? Plus, China has had a hell of a time launching subs.... one sank immediately in the river last year, the year before the whole crew drowned off the coast of Taiwan after getting caught in a Chinese laid anti-submarine net.... they tried to cover that one up but failed.
I feel like this is enough disproving for people for now, but I had to say something, given I was on official travel, then got stuck at an airport and wasn't really looking at this slop you were posting. Hopefully, this helps people's brains recover.
Please @Solomonsatoshi use Google. I know it's available in New Zealand, and this whole thing could have been avoided by a single check before you use videos that have AI-generated thumbnails that inspire shock and awe to garner clicks.
More fedslop government propaganda as usual. Just in case anyone doesn't know, @Cje95 has stated previously that he actually works for the current regime in Washington DC.
Why the hell are we even attacking Iran, @Cje95?
Not because it poses a threat to the US. But because Israel wants us to, to further the "Greater Israel" project. Israel is the tail wagging the dog. They have managed, via blackmail (Epstein and others) to control US foreign policy. And now they're dragging us into another quagmire of a war, and one with even more potential to start World War III. And a worldwide depression.
This was a war of aggression by the US and Israel. Bullied/pressured/coerced by Israel, the US is now involved in another insane Middle East war, exactly the OPPOSITE of what people voted for.
Love how we just throw out words like regime, now we are completely watering down words, which is insanity, but it is what it is. I can't help but laugh at how y'all attack me for being transparent. I could have lied, I could have hidden what I do for work, but that's not me. I am honest and transparent, and if I don't know an answer when people ask, I look into it and get back to them.
Iran is internationally known for supporting terror networks and proxies. After all, they have been busted operating in the U.S., trying to assassinate not only American political leaders but also a dissident in New York City.
Trump also told them if you kill the protesters, there will be severe consequences.... welp, look at those consequences. The former supreme leader also, while we were in negotiations, kept threatening our troops and ships in the area. Today, the idea that Iran doesn't provide a threat just isn't true. Do they have the ability to strike the U.S. mainland in a conventional military action? No. Could they via terror attacks/assassinations? Absolutely, after all we have caught them doing so over the last few years.
The idea that Israel controls U.S. policy is a played-out antisemitic idea that goes back 100 years. It's just another sad attempt to discredit a country that is the only democracy in the region, and that has been a linchpin for stability. I don't recall them ever asking Hamas or Hezbollah to attack them? Who launched the first strikes? Hamas, Hezbollah, and even the Houthis. Did you forget that during the Houthis' random firing at ships, they were hitting ships that had nothing to do with Israel; they were just disrupting trade, which under international law is illegal.
How long has it been now that we have been told a recession or depression is coming? Oh yeah that's from Trump's first term. I don't love the guy, but amazingly, every time he is in office, the economy is ending, but when Biden caused 9% inflation, which dramatically crushed the middle and lower class, the voices of impending doom were much quieter and were from people who were labeled as exaggerators/liars/propagandists.
Iran doesn't have the friends that people act as they do. Saudi Arabia is actually the key player in why this won't spread because of the nuclear umbrella they are under with.... Pakistan. Mutual defense treaty right there, and it would easily start a ground war without the need of the U.S. If things were to kick off, China would be the first to start acting to contain because they need the oil from Iran, but they also have way too much invested in Pakistan via the Belt and Road to allow it to collapse due to war. Since Iran has no friends in the region, they have no way to actually survive if this war you talk about kicks off. China knows a nuclear war means no one wins, and they can move to get into good graces with the next Iranian government to get the oil that they need while stabilizing the countries that house their billions upon billions in investments.
The axis of evil that we once thought was emerging turned out to be a paper tiger, like the Russian military. Russia is overextended, and that is why it is suffering increasing defeats in Ukraine (in February, Ukraine had a net gain in territory for the first time in a year or more), and China doesn't want its investments to blow up across Southeast Asia and Africa, where oil and LNG from the Strait of Hormuz go.
In the U.S., war serves as something that gets us out of a Depression. Yes, WWI was a factor for the Great Depression, but it wasn't the only thing. Plus, it ignited the "roaring 20s." Then, U.S. policy was terrible and caused the Depression, which we only got out of because of WWII. The economics show you that the New Deal wasn't working, but war did.
The people voted for an end to Forever Wars. Not sure how something 4 weeks long is forever. Guess a new definition dropped.
There are a ton of shortcomings with this Administration, but what isn't up for debate is that the President does act when he says he is going to. Foreign Affairs wise time and time again he clearly broadcasts what he is going to do and give those acting up time to chill out, and if they don't or they murder 50k of their own citizens after telling him they won't.... welp it doesn't end well for them.
I never use google- it is just another organ of US corporate surveillance imperialism.
I do use duckduckgo.
You admit not watching the videos which contain crucial factual data to support the narrative you then seek to reject without having accessed to crucial facts.
Your response is in fact a litany of misrepresentation too extensive to be accidental.
We know you are paid by the US taxpayer to be an apologist for US-Israeli war crimes.
I am simply an independent and concerned citizen with a keen eye for facts and truth and their implications on the US militaristic hegemony that is the basis of US wealth and power.
The fact is USA is losing in Iran and will remain bogged down for many years or leave humiliated - or both most likely.
In the meantime China is gaining the upper hand and USA is losing what advantage it had .
is it really losing if the MIC is getting exactly what it wants?
I’m a little confused at how this is losing at all…
Iran has lost its Navy and Air Force completely. Iranian leadership that has participated in war (Iran/Iraq) are either dead or in deep deep hiding. This is textbook short term pain for long term gain when you isolate and we’ll destroy the leading terror sponsor.
How did it work out for you in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Beyond the fact that USA is revealing itself to be a blatant war criminal disregarding international law, assassinating senior leadership of the Iran government and bombing and killing hundreds of school children.
I guess after decades of 'extraordinary renditions' (kidnappings), torture and drone strikes all breaching international law the USA has completely lost any moral compass and its apologists are now so deeply mired in its decadence that they cannot see what the rest of the world does- USA is a rogue state sponsor of international terrorism lead by a sociopath, liar and murderer.
That's not war, that's nation-building. Those are two entirely separate things.
Iran murdered 50k of its own people the first week of Feb. It is tragic that 175 children died, but it's not like we are bombing their schools every day. You are also aware that the senior Iranian leadership had attempted to set up assassinations in the U.S. against not just senior Admin individuals but dissidents as well. Iranian proxies murdered a couple of hundred U.S. soldiers in Beirut in the 80's. The Iranian's were the ones who created the modern-day IED, and that's essentially their drone equivalent, especially with the damage and death it has caused.
You are trying to compare two different things with nation building and military wins, and then you go and hit on things like the Iranian Regime was "nice guys."
You do this all from behind a keyboard (something, mind you, that Iran cut for its civilians because the protesting was gaining momentum) in a country that allows you to speak out against it. Go to Iran and do that; it doesn't work out. Even in the U.S., where there was a massive public outcry for this, the only people who were either A deported or B denied visas were those who violated the First Amendment and that is saying something.
1953 the CIA removed the democratically elected government of Iran to restore oil extraction by British and US interests.
1979 the Iranian people retook their sovereignty and oil from US imperialism.
USA creates reactionary governments like the Taliban and Irans theocracy by brutalising these nations into their most reactionary warlike and fundamental instincts.
Get the FUCK OFF other peoples backs and stop murdering and assassinating foreigners so you can steal their resources.
Show some respect for other peoples and their sovereignty.
The Iran invasion is not about liberating Iranian people it is about enslaving Iran.
I hope you lose and are humiliated because the world does not need this brutal US imperialism.
lol says the guy whose country depends on 5 Eyes protection.
In ‘79 a coalition toppled the Shah was mostly made up of far left ideological people not Islamist. That’s why after the revolution it took 3-4 years to actually get the government they have now. Women were instrumental in the over throw and then well since you can be killed by the morality police I think it’s safe to say they don’t value them the same.
The constitution that was voted for by these women was supposed to be finalized however this government resigned en mass 2 days after the violent embassy storming and hostage situation. Then the hardliners began to take over.
The irony of Iran assassinating 10 of thousands its civilians and hundreds of thousands protesting and asking for US help shows how you don’t care for the Iranians. I mean you are acting like you have some appointed position to speak for the people when they have spoken they hate their Regime it’s slaughtering them.
Unlike you who continues to wish bad on people I hope you have a good day. Enjoy the freedom these people dream of that they surely are not getting. You have done an admirable job enabling this oppressive murderous behavior by a Regime no one supports.
NZ may be part of the 5 eyes surveillance network but we are no longer formally a US ally. We rejected US nuclear ships from coming into our ports and for that the US ended our formal military alliance- another example of the arrogance and dictatorial nature of US militarist hegemony.
When a Muslim (or any) culture is repeatedly attacked by western imperialists it reverts to its most fundamental and militarisitic charateristics. Afghanistan has done this in response to UK, USSR and US imperialism and Iran has done this in response to UK and US imperialism.
STOP attacking other culture because you want to bully them and steal their resources and only then they might develop a political and social culture more aligned to your western values.
When a culture is constantly under attack from outsiders it can choose to fight and in such a scenario women have a primary role of producing fighters.
The USA is entirely responsible for the reactionary and regressive Iranian government- USA created that reactionary government by repeatedly attacking Iran sovereignty.
OWN IT!
But is it?
You do know DuckDuckGo is known for its tracking protection failures right? DDG has to blacklist trackers to ensure they are blocked.
No I watched the videos as I said “or do what I did and waste time watching the videos” which is why the AI generated clips were even more funny and how they ignored satellite imagery.
Remember we tried diplomacy. They had agreed to discuss nuclear, missiles, and proxies only to change the goal posts. They even wanted locations moved if you remember and at this point they want to negotiate with the VP who if you didn’t know was a Marine and that’s that’s not a great idea like they think 😂
it's hilarious to see the spooks battle it out in narrative land on even this small plain of existence on stacker news.
I get a kick out of it tbh I mean I love history and research so his wild comments from the safety of New Zealand is hilarious.