The really frustrating beyond this war being a pointless tragedy is that the water is getting seriously muddied here. The media will claim this is proof the US does not have Air Dominance, which is definitely true in a very real way, obviously, but also the US has already dropped a cataclysmic amount of bombs on Iran and run roughshod over the entire country destroying everything like a human hurricane of senseless evil. The US established enough Air Dominance to do that, which is more Air Dominance than any nation could ever need unless the objective is simply to create and sustain a failed state which is the explicit goal of Israel and by extension the US.

The reason jets are getting shot down now is that they are flying over Iran so much that they are bound to get hit, people who aren’t in Iran I don’t think are really accurately understanding the scale of the humanitarian crisis created by this massive of a bombing campaign in highly populated areas and against highly necessary civilian infrastructure. I am not, watching videos and reading articles doesn’t do anything but sketch out a hazy outline of what the experience of living it must be.

If Ukraine had anywhere near the amount of decisive ability to project this kind of airpower into russia, the Ukraine War would already be over which is one of the reasons the Iran War is such a backhanded insult to Ukraine from the US. Thankfully Ukraine is looking like it has created long lasting relationships with Gulf States that may aid them in reaching a decisive end to the Ukraine War far more than the US is willing to as a result of the Iran War. I dream that a decisive force for peace might work backwards to the Iran War in return if this future does come to pass.