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News & Current Events Apr 2, 2026 at 5:56 PM

“Cover-Up”: Pentagon Is Downplaying Troop Casualties Under Trump

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Trump’s Pentagon Is Undercounting Troop Casualties in Middle East
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Trump’s Pentagon Is Undercounting Troop Casualties in Middle East
An investigation found that the Department of Defense has sent out outdated statements about the number of troops wounded or killed in Iran.

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DemandredG Apr 2, 2026 +510
If only there were consequences
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Honey_Bunny-74 Apr 2, 2026 +135
It really does feel like accountability only exists in theory sometimes
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Loud_Lavishness_8266 Apr 2, 2026 +65
Only if you’re apart of the working class.
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SpiritualB0x3 Apr 3, 2026 +7
And Democrats
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forustree Apr 2, 2026 +6
sometimes? wtf … no time has accountability been an issue for this brigade
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forustree Apr 2, 2026 +8
fkn franken was a p**** for resigning
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Bulky_Preparation768 Apr 3, 2026 +1
Truly can’t wrap my head around why this man isn’t being pressed on impeachment votes
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silentbargain Apr 2, 2026 +1
We will make them.
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[deleted] Apr 2, 2026 -10
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Smelcome Apr 3, 2026 +1
well, on Jan 6th 2021, a bunch of American tourists walked into the capitol building during a presidential certification, in order to discuss their displeasure with the job the lawmakers were doing, and there was nothing wrong or illegal about it... so that means American tourists can take a tour of the white house too, no?
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FrogsOnALog Apr 3, 2026 +1
Trump was literally indicted for January 6 but we figured the people prosecuting him.
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DevRz8 Apr 2, 2026 -2
Careful! That’s DOoMeR speak!
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PolicyWonka Apr 2, 2026 +187
I mean Trump assassinated an Iranian general in his first term and got over 100 US troops injured with TBIs due to the Iranian retaliatory strikes. That was massively downplayed at the time.
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Koochikins Apr 2, 2026 +75
Was that the time he said some troops had bad headaches?
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PolicyWonka Apr 2, 2026 +32
Yup, that’s it.
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TheEverydayDad Apr 2, 2026 +20
He also called us mikitary members/vets suckers and losers
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Chief_Mischief Apr 2, 2026 +13
And those servicemembers went and voted for him a second time, then voted for him a third time after he incited an insurrection.
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IllustriousNorth338 Apr 2, 2026 +211
You'd think that with the Christian nationalism being ascendant in the US military that Hegseth would be honoring them as Christian martyrs and not hiding casualties. The crusaders don't believe their own religion, they're just godless fascist monsters.
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Morgannin09 Apr 2, 2026 +25
When your faith is completely performative, you don't have to stick to it when it's not convenient.
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Plzlaw4me Apr 2, 2026 +21
If only the bible had passages about people who claimed to be Christians, but didn’t actually have any Christian beliefs or practices, and then they actually did the opposite of why the bible taught, and actively led good followers astray. What would be even crazier would be if there was a reference in the bible to the followers of this false prophet wearing a mark on their forehead (you know like a red baseball cap with words on the front where the forehead is). Wouldn’t that be wacky?! I’m sure people who base their entire identity on their religion and the bible would be familiar enough to immediately recognize the parallels.
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arwinda Apr 2, 2026 +5
They cherry pick from the bible the parts which suit them.
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Enigmatic_Observer Apr 2, 2026 +54
He’ll see them in Valhalla
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joerd9 Apr 2, 2026 +52
In order to be admitted into Valhalla, he'd have to die in battle and with honour. Highly doubtful, I'd say, highly doubtful.
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JnnyRuthless Apr 2, 2026 +25
He'd also have to be a pagan Norseman. Which the whole Christian thing rules out.
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HappyHuman924 Apr 3, 2026 +2
Did that even matter? It might have been assumed, but falling bravely in battle is the only requirement I've definitely seen. Odin didn't have a Matthew 6:6 about the correct way to kiss his ass, he just set performance objectives. :D
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JnnyRuthless Apr 3, 2026 +5
Yeah it mattered a lot. Only warriors specifically chosen specifically by Odin and escorted after death by valkryies qualified. The vikings had a separate afterlife for "regular" warriors and people. So only a very small, chosen group of warriors ended up in Valhalla. There's a surprising amount of detail in tbe Sagas about Viking beliefs and their interpretations but nothing indicating a Christian soldier would even sniff Valhalla, mostly because Odin/Valkyries are needed and someone like Hegseth is supposed to honor only one God.
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lixia Apr 2, 2026 +2
Aka the better heaven for thr manliest and whitest of manly bros.
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imaginary_num6er Apr 2, 2026 +1
No that’s his “brother”
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winterbird Apr 3, 2026 +1
Wouldn't following a pagan custom be hell-worthy to them?
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ITech2FrostieS Apr 2, 2026 +7
Getting Christians whipped up into a frenzy only to get butchered is probably the most common crusade outcome tbh lol
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okimlom Apr 2, 2026 +2
Those that they are willing to sacrifice were/are never supposed to be the martyrs. It’s those making the calls/decisions free from accountability and consequences that are the “true martyrs”. 
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masklinn Apr 3, 2026 +1
Even with how dim they are they might realise that martyrs would have to be honored on some way and there is no way Trump can be arsed to pay then even a modicum of respect, so better to sweep them under the rug and memory hole them.
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Late-Dingo-8567 Apr 2, 2026 +56
In terms of Benghazi's, how bad is this? 
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Cigar-Scotch-Coating Apr 2, 2026 +64
Well there were congressional hearings to find out the negligence that resulted in 4 US soldier deaths. In this case there will be no hearings to discover about the almost 300 casualties so far. So...in terms of Benghazi it's either exponentially worse or non existent depending on the political climate.
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ICEambMAN Apr 2, 2026 +50
Zero US soldiers died in Benghazi, the deaths were the US Ambassador J Christopher Stevens, a US Foreign Services Officer, and two CIA contractors
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toterra Apr 2, 2026 +14
RIP Vile Rat
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SteamedGamer Apr 2, 2026 +13
I remember being so weirded out that an Eve Online superstar was killed in Benghazi. It was a strange intersection of online gaming and the real world...
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potkettleracism Apr 2, 2026 +5
Especially since he was a skilled diplomat in-game. 
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SlinkyAvenger Apr 2, 2026 +2
Lol that's like when you first run into a teacher outside school
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Serpentongue Apr 2, 2026 +11
Iran claims to have killed 37 officers 2 days ago
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progbuck Apr 2, 2026 +19
Iran is only slightly more credible than the Trump administration.
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DissKhorse Apr 3, 2026 +3
They are even less credible than Trump when it comes to what they claim to have killed, shot down or sunk but I believe them over Trump on the diplomacy stuff.
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Plzlaw4me Apr 2, 2026 +19
This is the kind of thing that used to get people riled up. Sending Americans to die and then lying about it due to the optics was inconceivable. Really shows how far we have fallen at that we look at this White House and we’re just like “yeah of course they lied.”
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ksdanj Apr 2, 2026 +35
If this is true it’s unconscionable. Imagine being a military parent with a kid currently deployed. Damn.
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H0agh Apr 2, 2026 +25
From the guy who called them "Suckers and losers" yet many in the military still voted for him
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Ordinary-Egg-56 Apr 3, 2026 +2
of course its true. its so obvious i don't know why anyone wrote up an article about it without some definitive proof
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worldsworstdracula Apr 2, 2026 -31
They knew what they signed up for. Anyone volunteering to help the American empire is evil. Full stop. In the last 10 years alone we have learned so much. You get 0 sympathy from me. You are either dumb or complicit. And ignorance only gets you so far. If you are willing to die for something but not enough for you to look up exactly who and why you are dying for...you get no sympathy. You Are saying murdering women and children for you is fine and you don't need the gritty details. May all these fascists face loss.
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pariah1981 Apr 2, 2026 +13
Damn. A lot of kids just wanted their college paid for. There are career soldiers and people who needed structure. You’re lumping those people in with the bad people. Now ICE…I’d have to agree with you there.
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worldsworstdracula Apr 2, 2026
Crazy how you think having college paid for justifies going to another country to r*** and murder and burn villages down
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Ricky-Spanish-31 Apr 2, 2026 +9
Saying "full stop" doesn't turn your nonsense into a good point.
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Dunkelz Apr 2, 2026 +4
I find people that use that phrase are often the most ignorant of the facts or opposition to their claim. They just use that so that don't have to substantiate their point.
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worldsworstdracula Apr 2, 2026 +2
The person who replied to me just talked shit and didn't counter any actual points I made. No one here has. Go ahead. Explain your position and tell me how I'm wrong
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Dunkelz Apr 2, 2026 +9
You're asking how are you wrong by painting everyone in the military as evil? You don't think there are ever instances where people to into the armed forces to escape poverty/have a shot at assistance with stuff like education and have no other options? And you don't think there are legitimate humanitarian services provided by the military?
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worldsworstdracula Apr 2, 2026
The us military has a long and proud history. Just look at Vietnam and onward. Invading countless innocent countries and killing countless people and stealing their resources and bombing them all for us capital Yes the us military is 1000% evil from top to bottom. It serves to get the us more power. And it uses that power for evil. We also love funding fascists and genociders. You wanting education does not trump a child in Iran who just wants to wake up tomorrow. These people are f****** DEMONS. Ignorance is no excuse because you are signing up to kill for someone. You aren't going to check into anything about them?? Either way you are guilty as f*** Take a step back and listen to yourself. You are implying Americans wanting education is worth innocent children dying over. It's not. Also another fun fact the us could just pay for college for everyone but doesn't. They want more slaves for the meat grinder.
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Dunkelz Apr 2, 2026 +7
> Take a step back and listen to yourself. You are implying Americans wanting education is worth innocent children dying over. No one here is claiming that. Your mind just can't seem to understand nuance or context of anything past the immediate present state of the world.
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worldsworstdracula Apr 2, 2026 +2
Present state??? We have been doing this since Vietnam. Does Iraq mean nothing? What about syria? Also again your only defense was "kids want to go to college or lift themselves out of poverty" you are saying this as a direct defense to my claims. So yes you are directly trying to say that these kids getting college excuses them signing up for the amerikkkan army
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i_teach Apr 3, 2026 +1
You need to continue your history lessons. It’s been since the beginning of the country’s founding. It’s been since before the country was founded. It’s how the country was founded.
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worldsworstdracula Apr 2, 2026 -3
The fact you can't even argue against it speaks for itself
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HoightyToighty Apr 2, 2026 +13
> Anyone volunteering to help the American empire is evil. Full stop. Anyone typing what you just typed is a lunatic. Full stop.
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worldsworstdracula Apr 2, 2026 -2
How's that genocidal boot you love to lick? Imagine trying to say someone decrying war crimes as a lunatic for using a common phrase but excuse the genocide of amerikkka
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GatoLibre Apr 2, 2026 +3
What an incredibly shitty take.
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worldsworstdracula Apr 2, 2026 +1
It's a great take. You just love support war criminals because you are a fascist loving amerikkkan even if you don't realize it. You cant even argue against it. That's how I know all of you are army bots or propaganda agents. Insults but no actual rebuttle Remember everyone! It's always ethical to help military partners cheat. Fuckem
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GatoLibre Apr 2, 2026 +4
I can certainly argue against your point if you want discourse in good faith. However, you’re painting with an overly broad brush and I don’t think you really want to objectively look into your entrenched views. We can both be right and both be wrong in our views. I’ll provide a rebuttal because I got a little free time on my hands today and helping you out is the least I can do. I’m certainly not going to defend every action taken by the US military the last 250 years. I don’t support the current level of funding the US military receives when we are perfectly capable of defending ourselves from true threats and we don’t have adequate funding for food, housing, healthcare or education. I also don’t support the US military being an aggressor (ex. current Iran situation). But it’s clear you don’t have a lot of context on the various reasons American men and women join the armed forces. You aren’t showing a lot of awareness for how complex the issue really is and your position is quite unreasonable. What’s your solution here? Dissolve the US military? Sounds good to me. I’d love to go down a path where there is no need for wars, bombs, guns. Unfortunately that isn’t feasible at this point in the World you and I show up in daily. The difference between us here is that I recognize the big picture and don’t judge the intent or classify thousands of people I’ve ever met as being the same. I can dislike things the American military does and also acknowledge the good with a little empathy for those who are being sent into war by politicians without actual skin in the game.
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3mpyr Apr 3, 2026 +1
Thanks for taking the time that i wasn’t willing to give to write the reasonable response to this rabid person. Their heart is in the right place but their mind is not, and I hope this helps them a bit.
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Ordinary-Egg-56 Apr 3, 2026 +1
>It's always ethical to help military partners cheat lmao
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Duane_ Apr 2, 2026 +92
Exponentially so, to the point of negligence. There should be panicking and organized dissent in the streets. To believe OSINT, deaths are in the hundreds. There's plenty of misinformation floating around, and Iran is definitely contributing to it - but even using FIRMS to verify fires or satellite imagery, the US has lost most of their radar capability, and at least 70% of staffed bases in the Middle East as a whole. It's pretty biblical. And yeah, we did majority evacuate most of these bases before escalation - but the idea that they were all empty beforehand is nonsense. Very few of those impact craters DON'T represent a corpse, and some indicate multiple. End the war, jackass. Don't send thousands of our best to die on the coasts of the strait.
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frozenpissglove Apr 2, 2026 +36
I don’t believe deaths are in the hundreds. That is kind of hard to hide. I’d remain skeptical on that. However, casualties? Absolutely. Hell you just need a good TBI and you’ll get listed as a casualty. Super easy to ramp those numbers up.
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AmishAvenger Apr 2, 2026 +13
I would think at the very least we’d be seeing families on the news saying they haven’t heard from their family member in a concerning amount of time.
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Simple_Project4605 Apr 2, 2026 +38
They wouldn’t hear from family members whilst deployed in a hostile region anyway, due to opsec. It may take months for those families to find anything out
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MarcusSurealius Apr 2, 2026 +15
I wasn't able to send a letter out for 10 months, once. F*** the Gulf.
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IamChantus Apr 3, 2026 +1
I can't remember anymore. Was it condition X that was emissions control?
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MarcusSurealius Apr 3, 2026 +1
We set condition Z for months. Again. F*** that place.
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keepitfriend Apr 2, 2026 +3
On OAN or Fox News?
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Nonsense-Historican Apr 2, 2026 +6
There are way too many military personnel with cell phones for the death count to be that high and the people to not know anything about it.
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Duane_ Apr 2, 2026 +9
Anyone risking that their loved ones might be dead would risk jail time, as would the person posting from base. I don't know what you want to hear, but if our radars have been hit with even half the severity claimed, the death toll has to be north of a hundred - at bare minimum. It's of note that Trump didn't allow the second reception of caskets to be public. It's likely that his first trip covered all of the thirteen initial claimed dead.
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Osgiliath Apr 2, 2026 +1
Hundreds is kind of wild for you to say. We’d be hearing from numerous pissed off families and soldiers.
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JaVelin-X- Apr 2, 2026 +34
He takes his ideas from Russia. The families might not even find out until later
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Duane_ Apr 2, 2026 +26
You wouldn't hear shit if they haven't 'confirmed' anything. They normally don't notify a family before they recover anything, and every base over there is on communications lockdown.
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Hangry_Howie Apr 2, 2026 -2
The lack of contact from the deployed loved one is a huge red flag. Plus, anyone who had ever served in the military knows that nobody can keep their f****** mouth shut.
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big-titty-brat Apr 2, 2026 +9
Lack of contact isn’t really a huge red flag to a military family. We know they go off and can’t communicate at times. Our mantra is normally “no news is good news.”
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keepitfriend Apr 2, 2026 +4
I mean we know its at least dozens
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BOOTS31 Apr 3, 2026 +5
There were times when I was deployed where we couldn't communicate back stateside for months. Give it time. Im really hoping im wrong.
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Carrenal Apr 3, 2026 +1
Honestly, I'm hoping it's true. That's the only way this war will be ending, when the political pressure is too high because of these losses.
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californicating Apr 2, 2026 -7
No, there is no reason to believe that the United States has lost radar capability in the middle east, unless Iran got good at stealth.  That's an absolute bonkers take.  And bases haven't lost either.  The unsurprising truth is that the United States absolutely crushed Iran militarily, but also, that was the easy part.  The sustained part if regime change and occupation is going to be long and painful if we go down that road.
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Duane_ Apr 2, 2026 +17
It's not a bonkers take, it's verifiable information that we have lost at least two AN-TPY/2 radars. Iran claims 4, but I can find info on two - and only eight exist in the entire Middle-East region. The importance of these radars, that are the predominant guiding information for anti-missile defenses, can't be understated. They're the only thing keeping THAAD running. [Here's a CNN article with satellite images of blasts](https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/middleeast/radar-bases-us-missile-defense-iran-war-intl-invs), the same images [highlighted on OSINT](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HEkkT6CWMAAFaX2.jpg?name=orig), and [here](https://xcancel.com/cirnosad/status/2030672325306372248#m) is an OSINT info dump about the same radar batteries, and their locations across the globe - both destroyed and otherwise. [This](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HC5kSLEaUAAgHa9.jpg?name=orig) image specifically contains all known strikes against either the THAAD battery or radar assembly, claiming FIVE - and they leave the UAE, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, most of Saudi Arabia entirely in the dark for our defense infrastructure. Believe whatever you want.
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rmslashusr Apr 2, 2026 +3
You went from “lost most of their radar capability and 70% of bases” to losing 2 out of 8 specific radar systems in the Middle East. So yes, your original claim was bonkers, and yes, your verifiable follow-up of two radar installations (which I believe they pulled replacements from Korea pissing them off) is true but no where near the exaggerated earlier claim. You probably understood the intended context of your original claim but it’s not what you wrote.
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Duane_ Apr 2, 2026 +3
I mean, I think losing 2-3 of the radars - constituting 100% of the air coverage of the Strait of Hormuz - counts as losing all our radars. My initial claim was definitely way off, but I think functionally we're still WAY worse off than most people who just watch the news, or support the war effort at ALL think we are. How are we supposed to get troops through an area we can't offer anti-missile support, given that we also have no anti-drone capabilities? Kharg island is more than 500 miles from the Strait of Hormuz - if Trump is seriously considering sending troops there, he'd better have a bunch of purple hearts printed up.
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rmslashusr Apr 3, 2026 +1
Don’t worry, I asked Gemini how many chinooks it would take to airlift an arleigh Burke so we can bypass the strait but since I’m bad at typing it told me it’ll take 1.4 billion chickens. Anyways, I think we’re on to something here…
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keepitfriend Apr 2, 2026 +9
Ok, we know the US has lost radar capabilities already. How bad it is - is whats up for debate. The planes, bases and THAAD radar are on fire across many international news sources both pro and anti US the US has had to move THAAD radars from South Korea and Japan - those things cost half a million each. They don't move them for fun.
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dommol Apr 2, 2026 +6
God I hate the internet now. This opened 30 McAfee spam site pop-ups while I was trying to read this article
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drop_tbl Apr 2, 2026 +7
Did anyone expect there to be any level of honesty about anything from this administration? The only thing that would surprise me at this point would be if this administration stated an actual, verifiable fact.
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To-Far-Away-Times Apr 2, 2026 +17
They’re downplaying republicans murdering people in Iran too. This shit matters. We’ve still never had a press conference explaining the strategic military value of targeting an elementary school with a tomahawk missile and mass murdering 150 children. Specially, what did this accomplish? What was the intended benefit? Who ordered it? Who approved it? And what are their prison sentences? No matter how sick in the head someone is, instigating a war is not a valid excuse to mass murder children.
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noun_verb_adjective_ Apr 2, 2026
Not to downplay the seriousness of what happened to the school children, I heard it was immediately adjacent to a military base. Infact it was a part of the military base originally and the incompetent Dept. of War used old information and maps, turning it into a target. 
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EmotionalJoystick Apr 2, 2026 +10
Bullshit. It was a TRIPLE TAP strike. With visual confirmation.
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noun_verb_adjective_ Apr 2, 2026
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/world/middleeast/us-precision-strike-missile-iran-lamerd.html
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funky_bebop Apr 2, 2026 +2
Fact is the US bombed a school full of children.
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DrRealName Apr 3, 2026 +1
Absolute bullshit. I hope you don't actually believe that. if you do, just f****** wow.
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noun_verb_adjective_ Apr 3, 2026 +1
Do you have a good "trust me", bro? 
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DrRealName Apr 3, 2026 +1
Was going to ask you the same thing. You're whole premise is "I heard". You offered no evidence, just a basic "I totally heard this thing so trust me bro" approach. God you all project literally everything you do and we always catch you doing it and you STILL think you are actually getting away with it.. You know what the definition of insanity is, right? Yeesh. lol
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noun_verb_adjective_ Apr 3, 2026 +1
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/world/middleeast/us-precision-strike-missile-iran-lamerd.html
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tacs97 Apr 2, 2026 +4
When you install dipshit podcasters that can’t goatse wide enough for chump. What information do you think they’re going to push?
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TriceCreamSundae Apr 2, 2026 +5
So I guess they don’t tell the families or do they tell them along with a stern warning to keep their mouths shut “or else”???
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TapiocaFilling101 Apr 2, 2026 +2
They’re not dead, just missing /s 😢
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LazorsBear Apr 2, 2026 +2
They tell them that their relative died in a laundry fire inside a ship
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LostInSpace-2245 Apr 2, 2026 +5
Those young non-college degree guys that voted for Trump, get ready for foxholes. 
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Chusten Apr 2, 2026 +10
"After review, we have deemed your case of 'Cerebral Edema' as being NON COMBAT RELATED. Your claim for permanent Personal Disability Benefits has been restricted to LIMITED. Thank you for your service, f*** off."
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NottheArkhamKnight Apr 2, 2026 +7
"Thank you for your service, f*** off." Story of how America treats her veterans.
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Anna_Frican Apr 3, 2026 +1
"Twenty one. Only son. But he served us well!"
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keepitfriend Apr 2, 2026 +2
You get the political system you vote for
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Chusten Apr 2, 2026 +3
Or kill for, apparently.
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Kendal_with_1_L Apr 3, 2026 +3
Not to mention all of the dead bodies at the ICE concentration camps.
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NelsonMuntz007 Apr 2, 2026 +3
If only we expected anything but…
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Silentshroomee Apr 2, 2026 +3
Make sure the caskets are covered in trump flags!
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gphie Apr 3, 2026 +1
They won't be able to hide the inevitable videos of marines getting smoked by FPV drones though
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88cent Apr 2, 2026 +2
Bro he’s just trying to see them in Valhalla
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Mediocre_Presence839 Apr 2, 2026 +2
I didn’t think for one second that this administration would’ve been truthful. All these little video clips of us destroying military targets yet I haven’t seen any videos showing what’s happening to our troops.
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Apprehensive_Bit57 Apr 2, 2026 +2
Nothing surprises me anymore. F*** you you fuckity fucks.
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Turbo__Sanwich Apr 2, 2026 +2
Of course they are. We should be seeing everything about this situation and it's nothing but media blackout
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BasilisksRPretty Apr 2, 2026 +2
I hope those Iranian drones are equipped with really good cameras
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platocplx Apr 2, 2026 +2
From the Benghazi party ladies and gentlemen
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agdnan Apr 2, 2026 +2
Wow did the liars lie about the consequences of their actions? Colour me shocked.
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16ozbuddz Apr 2, 2026 +2
War propaganda has never gone away
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JoeBuskin Apr 3, 2026 +2
"War Crimes" Hegseth will be put on trial for war crimes when his shield is no more.
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Redsox19681968 Apr 3, 2026 +2
Kegsbreath
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Red_dylinger Apr 3, 2026 +1
So just like Russia
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fivegenerations Apr 3, 2026 +1
Wait until the families of those overseas just don’t hear from them for weeks and months. Later to know that they died in this useless war. It’s a shame and I feel for those when it happens.
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CobraPony67 Apr 3, 2026 +1
What would be outrageous is if they asked family members to sign non-disclosure agreements.
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Parobolla Apr 3, 2026 +1
I mean, Russian asset uses Russian way of reporting? Shocking!
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BareNakedSole Apr 2, 2026 +2
Listnook is known for hyperbole on most subjects. But if anything I think the estimates of troop casualties if an invasion of Iran happens are very optimistic. I think it could be Vietnam War level casualties. All for arguably the dumbest war in history
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AHugeHildaFan Apr 3, 2026 +1
Not really. Vietnam was people fighting people. Iran is Marines being attacked by drones that are the size of dragonflies. You ever been able to see a dragonfly that didn't flit by your sight?
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cajgolfer87 Apr 2, 2026 +1
Shocking
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rourobouros Apr 2, 2026 +1
No!
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Individual-Dust-7362 Apr 2, 2026 +1
> In a statement sent Monday, CENTCOM said that “approximately 303 U.S. service members have been wounded” since the launch of Operation Epic Fury. But that number was three days old, and excluded the at least 15 troops wounded in a strike at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia last week. Dumb editorialized headline. Is also fashionable now for the internet to use headlines as a crystal ball, pretending to see whatever they want to see.
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BakedPotatoDutton Apr 2, 2026 -3
>The Pentagon appears to be engaged in a “casualty cover-up” of **U.S.** ~~soldiers~~ **terrorists** killed as a result of Donald Trump’s military onslaught in Iran, a U.S. defense official told The Intercept. Remember, Trump is flying the planes or firing the missiles. Americans are. Let's stop pussyfooting about and call them what they are...terrorists.
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