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This was covered pretty extensively on social media but not in the mainstream media. Due to no real major press outlets not covering this story, most of the reports on social media were dismissed as rumours without evidence or fake news and AI videos. I'm sure it was dismissed in here too exactly the same as the US weapons stocks being depleted was dismissed by some in here, and on social media.
The way Hegseth and Trump and others have clearly orchestrated information that is related to the press or that they themselves have released is yet another reason why, at this present moment in time, you can hardly trust anything they say. It's abundantly clear they have been taking notes or even getting directions from Israel and/or Russia.
Trump is petrified of any bad press and it seems Hegseth is the same too. They are shit scared of answering questions and bad publicity leading to bad poll numbers.
They are actively blocking the Press and even had the Pentagon press pool moved from their office in the Pentagon to an annexed building. They tried to deny and cover up the school girls attack, denied bases were hit and hid the numbers of injured in the attacks. They denied aircraft were struck down, denied one of their carriers was hit and also came up with this magical story over Easter weekend about a pilot downed on Good Friday only to be saved on Easter Sunday yet the pilot still hasn't been named or pictured anywhere. Rumours still persist that given the region the aircraft were operating it was a failed attempt by the US to attempt to get to the area where the enriched uranium is supposed to be buried.
Both Iran and the US have conflicting stories on nearly every single aspect of this war so far and a lot of what the US has claimed has later been proved to have been misinformation or completely untrue. There are scores of analysts and war correspondents openly disputing the administrations versions of events, especially the downed aircraft and rescued pilots, what they were doing in that particular region and also injured and even the actual numbers of dead US servicemen and women.
We have also had constant conflicting statements about goals and achievements and results as well as conflicting reports on the end game or main objectives. They go hand in had with constant conflicting reports about Irans losses and capabilities.
On top of all the uncertainty, unverified rumours and mixed reporting is the fact that as of this week, Pete Hegseth has removed (fired) 34 high ranking military officials including chiefs of staff, head of the NSA and Commander of US cyber command, Admirals and Vice Admirals and more. A fair few were women or persons of colour which explains a lot when you see he's also blocked the promotion of 2 women and 2 black men.
Finally, there is also the continued contradictions and difference in statements coming from the US and Israel. They repeatedly show that at times they are not reading from the same hymn pages. Netenyahu has also said he's given daily reports when at times nobody in the US appears to be on the same page or even if they are, Trump comes out and contradicts them.
All of this is made all the more worse because of the reporting and misinformation leading back to my original point of the US copying Israel and Russia in the way they are handling the press and information given out about the war. The big difference is Israel not only have a clear agenda and clear goals the US can't even agree on why they got involved in the first place or who advised or influenced them.tjere must have been 10 different reasons and contradictions in the first couple of weeks alone. Still now they keep moving the goalposts. Meanwhile, Israel and Iran both have years of experience in keeping the press out and limiting what they can actually see, hear and report. They have always more or less got away with it and the US is seriously trying to copy that playbook.
The US has always had a much more open, honest and transparent approach especially with regards to allowing media access to the region and troops & the press access at the Pentagon and the reporting of casualty & equipment numbers and losses.
Of course they have always been full of shit like with the WMD's and blatant cover ups, but overall the day to day reporting, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan and the White House statements were infinitely more open and honest and the press had far more access and freedom.
The fact you have relatively small outlets reporting stuff well in advance of the major outlets and often reporting stuff that's denied yet later found out to be absolutely spot on and on more than a few occasions Iran have been reporting the truth about things denied by US absolutely says it all.
Given the number of stories about top military brass falling out or disagreeing with Trump & Hegseth and given the number of top officials fired or removed shows again that behind the scenes must be absolute fecking chaos.
All in all it's an absolute shitshow and I guarantee in the not so distant future many books are going to come out exposing it all.
