The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service report just blew the lid off their deception and lack of transparency, revealing that up to 42 U.S. aircraft have been lost or damaged in the fighting, including high-value assets like F-15E Strike Eagles, an E-3 Sentry AWACS radar plane, multiple KC-135 Stratotankers, an F-35A stealth fighter, and dozens of Reaper drones.
The true price tag is now estimated closer to $50 billion, far higher than the Pentagon has been willing to admit publicly.
This is the information Pentagon Pete Hegseth didn’t want you to see. While American planes were being shot down and billions were being burned, Hegseth was too busy calling basic questions from Democrats “reckless and feckless” (the lad fancies himself a poet!) while the 13 bodies and wreckage of billions in American treasure pile up.
More than 350 more soldiers have been injured in this conflict, yet the Pentagon has been slow-walking basic information about casualties and equipment losses under its authoritarian-playbook strategy of no bad news, ever, since we are perfect and wonderful.
The new report is forcing the truth out into the open despite their best efforts to obscure it.
Trump has attempted to sell this as a quick, decisive victory, but what the revealed evidence shows is an expensive, poorly planned war with mounting costs in both blood and materiel, while the administration tried to keep any negative details hidden from the American people.
Our troops and taxpayers deserve full transparency, not spin and secrecy from Pentagon Pete, the Secretary of War Crimes.
