EDITOR’S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). Tucker Carlson said it best in his morning note today: “If America’s leaders had any courage, they would demand that Israel pay the U.S. reparations for all we have lost in this war. As Marco Rubio literally admitted in March, the Israelis are the reason we are in this mess. Why must our country suffer on their behalf?”
The photos below leave little doubt of what happened in the Middle East during the last 7 months. American power in the area – and this will have global consequences – was practically eliminated. If this was Israel’s true goal, they have achieved it.
Finally, many thanks to the courageous American troops for their photos – truth is always the right way…
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New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks
The images were sent to CBS News by active service members on condition of anonymity because of rigid media restrictions within the military.
“This is major damage to our bases that hasn’t been communicated to the American public,” one deployed service member told CBS News. “We’re standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in the face.”
One photo, taken at Prince Sultan Air Force Base in Saudi Arabia, shows a direct hit on the back half of a Boeing E-3 Sentry four-engine aircraft, its tail severed from the charred fuselage that also supported a rotating radar that is essential for collecting midair intelligence.
Other photos taken from the base show hollowed-out buildings and barracks whose shells ironically stand next to unaffected cement “T-wall” structures, which were once regarded as critical fortifications against grenade and mortar attacks but proved critically ineffective against an aerial assault.
Similarly grim pictures were captured at Camp Buehring in Kuwait, a major staging area for U.S. Army ground troops, armored vehicles and some aircraft; the post is located in a remote desert region far northwest of Kuwait City.
The Defense Department’s inspector general this week released a fresh report on the war in Iran that revealed “equipment losses” worth up to $3.7 billion — including nearly 60 aircraft. In a first-of-its-kind mandatory report to Congress, the inspector general added that U.S. Central Command reported Iranian strikes at U.S. bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman and Jordan.
“These are not ‘squirters’ getting through,” the service member added, referencing language used by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after the deadly March 1 attack on Port of Shuaiba in Kuwait that killed six U.S. troops. “We’re not defending these bases. We’re just watching them get destroyed.”
Restructuring of the Middle East is happening.
This “restructuring” of the Middle East could lead to the fall of some Arab governments that we have seen as “moderate.” And it will challenge the very existence of Israel.
Many on the web site might even cheer if the Israelis are given into the sea. But they should not cheer. It is foolish to believe that the numerous radical Muslims of the world will be content now if we just let them wipe out Israel. If that occurs, it will instead spur Islamic expansion efforts all over the world–and Greece would especially be in danger due to its location.
Correction: I was wondering if the Israelis might be DRIVEN into the sea.
This is a possibility, but more likely they will abandon Israel. Official reports show that over 220,000 Israelis emigrated during the last 3 years, but the actual number is probably much higher (Israelis usually hold at least a second passport, so true emigration is hard to calculate). We will do a post soon on this issue. We are dealing with multiple stories of Israelis buying real estate in Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Serbia, and elsewhere.
John, I have no problem with a “national home” (pace Balfour Declaration) for Jews per se. It’s just that as it’s now obvious, Uganda, Patagonia or Madagascar would have been more ideal.
I certainly don’t want to see Israelis “driven into the sea”. Nor for that matter do I want to see the Gazans bombed into smithereens.
General of the Army George C Marshall begged Harry Truman to not recognize Israel in 1948. He predicted a century of chaos. He wasn’t wrong.
Anyway, the entire issue might be moot: the Israelis are getting ready to engage in military action against the Turks, in Syria. They’ve checked the verbiage of Article V of NATO and it only causes the other 31 nations to come to Turkey’s aid only if Turkish territory is attacked. Hence Turkish bases in Syria are open season.
Maybe you do not want Israelis to be driven into the sea, but that is likely the dream of many of the Arabs surrounding Israel. Even if half of the Israelis can leave safely before a collapse, the suffering of the ones still there would be immense.
And perhaps many of the folks commenting on here would like to see such an event, which would be similar to the tragedy of Smyrna in 1922. But a destruction of Israel would become an event that would electrify the Islamic world far more than the tragedy of 1922.
It would not matter if some in the US and Europe had opposed Israel. A wiping-out of Israel would stimulate Muslims to expand further in many places–and especially to re-conquer southeastern Europe. Our ancestral Greece would be among the first targets.
Am I the only on on here who sees this?
John, the first thing I wrote after October 7, 2023, was that this might mark the beginning of Israel’s end. We have reached this point now. As in the past, the root of all evil in humanity is hubris/arrogance… And it is not the first time the Jewish nation has shown extreme cases of hubris. The Old Testament is filled with examples. And modern history also.
You mean the republican Religious/ Political Evangelical Protestant and Jewish Zionist criminal enterprise will again invade Syria to kill and massacre another million Orthodox , Catholic and Muslm faithfull ! These are the same guys who Huckelbee told us with flat out Zionist committed to fulfilling the covenants of the Jewish people with Abraham , which includes taking over the Middle East . The only reason Edrogan will not respond if they did .. is because Edrogan is a mobster like the rest of them .. and has been payed off , like Mistotakis to do anything the US and Israel tell them to do, Get real , this is a perfect example of the deranged evangelicals prepared to be thrown out of office in november for their support of Israel, and sacrifice their entire careers before they leave to serve the Devil ! I have to say … for a country of 10 million .. it is amazing how they hace endless money and resouces to wage war with anybody they want ! Or on my god .. the Zionist Mistotakis government is going to step in with Cyprus . Of course , silly me , another satanic deciple of the Religious /political criminal enterprise of america and Israel !
Those posting on here seem so eager to see the fall of Israel that they cannot see how its destruction would endanger Greece.
John, Greece’s role is not to prevent Israel from making the same mistakes again. Hellenism, in general, should promote peaceful coexistence. Think of Mikis Theodorakis, whose songs symbolized Jewish-Palestinian coexistence in the Oslo Accords of 1993. Three years later, Zionist Netanyahu buried these accords and buried peace. And then funded Hamas (through the UAE and Qatar) in order to kick out the PLO. Please read Helkeniscope carefully and read history. At this moment, many analysts in Greece – and Greece has the best – believe that “some” (guess who they might be) are pushing Greece into a war to serve other purposes. If Greece is going to fight a war, it should be on her own terms. And if Israel wants to help Greece, it should FIRST recognize the Armenian and Greek Genocides and then stand by Greece after Greece extends its territorial waters to 12 miles. As I said many times, so far Israel takes and never gives back. A year ago, it refused to send a corvette to help Greece in the dispute around Kassos. Let’s be serious. And let’s demand first before we give.
I have not advocated Greece getting into military situations on behalf of Israel. I am instead looking to the future when there might not be an Israel–and Greece would then be in danger.
John, I understand. Let’s not forget that we lived as a nation for 400-500 years under the Ottomans. The Ottomans had the “millet system” and allowed their subjects religious autonomy – the Greeks were called the “Rum” / Ρωμιοί… The Armenians also had their own religious organizations… Let’s also not forget that the “Muslim” Palestinians in Gaza saved tens of thousands of Greeks from starvation during WW II. The same Muslim Palestinians opened their houses to Jewish colonialists after 1945-48, when Israel was established – only to be kicked out of their own houses by the Zionists a short time later!!
I understand the risk of “Sharia Law” being now allowed in some parts of Europe, but the way to deal with it is to defeat the Globalist elites and kick them out of power. Also, Shiites are very tolerant and have a long history of coexisting with Jews and Christians. Iranians and Iraquis/ Yemenis / Hezbollah are mostly Shiites. We have posted on the existence of Synagogues and Churches in Iran… Who prosecuted modern Christians in the Middle East at this moment? The Israeli Zionists and the Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria who made their leader Al-Jolani president of Syria… Who is behind Al-Jolani, the former beheader of Christians? The Globalist Elites of Europe and the Deep State of the US (while the Zionists played their own sinister role). How many times did we post photos of late Senator McCain and – now burning in Hell – Lindsey Graham with the ISIS “beheaders” in Syria?
Let’s focus on the facts and let’s get rid of the Globalist elites – they are the real danger… The Right and the Left are unifying around this goal..