Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
The fire in the American aircraft carrier USS Ford was really bad with extensive damage. The costs of this war are tallying up. What are we getting out of this again?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qarj88_tsAg
US loss multiple planes in Iranian strike in Saudi Arabia, likely with help from Russian intelligence. The US did not learn or implement the lessons from Ukraine regarding drones and protecting planes on the ground. The US looks like Russia losing expensive aircraft on the ground. The US is losing planes, people, radars, and facilities, and so far has gotten nothing from Iran. Iran shows no sign of giving in, and if they don’t, then the US lost expensive equipment, munitions, and lives for little gain. The US is showing that it is not ready for the new change in warfare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c594aKVeLLM
We’ve watched for four years Russia continuing to not always adapt to protect their assets from drones and missiles, and now the US seems to be failing in the same way.
The US can only confirm that they destroyed a third of Iran’s missiles, and Iran doesn’t need that many missiles to damage neighbors and the global economy. Our assessments may not be good either. Iran could be secretly building more missiles and drones.
The Houthis haven’t entered the war yet, but they may.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W9O7HgpCuA
Obama was interested in military force in Syria after Syria crossed Obama’s redline, but Obama wanted authorization from Congress. Congress didn’t want to be on the record one way or the other, and told Obama to act if he wanted to act.
Then for Libya, some of the Congressmen who said they didn’t want to be on the record and they wanted Obama to act if he wanted to, complained that Obama didn’t get authorization for Libya.
Not only were Congress people derelict of their duty to discuss and vote on military action, but they dishonestly portrayed their true feelings to the public.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5EYWoIrb_A
Trump talked about the people overthrowing the regime as he started the war. “”All I want is freedom for the people,” Trump told The Washington Post just hours after those first strikes.” “When Trump announced the strikes early on a Saturday morning, he called it the “single greatest chance” for the Iranian people to take back their country.” “He would echo those calls a few days later, calling on “Iranian patriots” to seize this moment. “America is with you. I made a promise to you, and I fulfilled that promise. The rest will be up to you, but we’ll be there to help,” he said on March 1.” Netanyahu also called on the Iranian people to rise up.
“But as the war continued into the third and fourth week, Trump has spoken less and less about the protesters and has made no recent calls for protesters to overthrow the government.”
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5759721/how-trumps-iran-war-objectives-have-shifted-over-time
The US military is not ready for drone warfare. Iran will post videos of Americans’ faces before being exploded by drones. Iran has been training in FPV drone warfare and gets advice from Russia who has been fighting in an FPV drone war.
The US is already taking equipment and personnel losses from drones. The US has mostly abandoned bases near Iran because it can’t defend them. If the US goes in close, they will be swarmed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETeA07YjnSM
F18 Super Hornet almost hit by Iranian missile after it shot at a ground target with its gun. Shrapnel likely did hit the plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOIMXUPbR2I
The Kharg Island Trap: How a War-Winning Plan Could Backfire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adEG7iAAQzE
US bases in Iraq are getting hit by FPV drones. At least a radar and helicopter have been destroyed. The US does not seem prepared for this advancement in warfare. If the US sends ground troops to Iran, a lot of them will be killed by FPV drones. These are short range, cheap drones, that can be used as suicide drones or to drop explosives.
The Ukraine-Russia war has shown that this is a new factor in warfare, and the US doesn’t seem to have adapted fast enough.
America’s rolling thunder of destroying things from the air is not convincing the Iranian regime to budge or the Iranian people to rise up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rSv1Ig-RSc
Some of Iran’s strikes on Israel are getting through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqAAD_d-7VE