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Yemeni Armed Forces claim responsibility for F/A-18 shot down over red sea in new statement. | Al-Mayadeen
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I wonder how many of these sorts of events at the periphery by impoverished peoples it will take to crack the image of the American military here at at home, as some elite, all powerful fighting force with supreme talent and technology... and not a big pile of expensive bullshit that mostly just redirects public funds into industry shareholders as palm grease, graft and jobbery.
lots of money is spent at home to deliver cultural products everywhere one night gaze to reinforce the myths, so it's going to take a lot but it seems inevitable.
Nothing short of an aircraft carrier going down
I guess if four of them go down in a single day, we would been in a midway to US Navy image shattering.
When you're an empire that has been at war for most of a century the different conflicts become more or less amalgamated. With that, every small loss is actually compounded with every loss from years past in a way that no other military has to contend with.
The same thing also serves as a benefit, as every military victory can be endlessly propagandised and lionised to your civilian base. Meanwhile, the military is aware of the realities and becomes more and more passive (or indirect, for lack of better words) with its actions to avoid the compounding effect of military losses.