🪖 Why US pilot's rescue op far from 'success'

🪖 Why US pilot's rescue op far from 'success'

The Pentagon has a long habit of "disguising and hiding the fact that they have been losing significant numbers to injury or even death of personnel," and it can't be ruled out that losses are written off as contractors, Stockholm University professor Isa Blumi told Sputnik.

Saturday's operation can be characterized as a "success" only insofar as its coverage by the corporate media - "owned by the same people pushing for war on Iran" - diverted attention from other crises, including the war's impact on ordinary Americans, Blumi explained.

"If there is any success, it is the success of getting people to talk about things other than what is actually happening on the ground," the academic added, noting that based on accounts of US troops with access to information blacked out by the media, the war "is not turning out well" for the coalition.

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