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Communicative Vacuum: The government has not provided sufficient information to the public about the war, including its anticipated duration, impact on oil and markets, or justification for American lives lost. This lack of transparency is seen as an attack on democracy.
Post-Truth Issue: This is considered worse than a communicative vacuum because it involves mutually exclusive statements from the same person at the pinnacle of power. This creates an incoherent information environment, leading citizens to lose faith in democratic discourse and potentially depoliticize themselves

House of cards! Wag the dog! They were ALL PROPHECY!!

Israel hacked Tehran’s traffic camera network for years, feeding the footage into advanced intelligence analysis to monitor the routines, movements, work locations and protection details of senior Iranian officials and Khamenei’s bodyguards. That long-term surveillance helped map patterns of life and provided critical targeting information that, combined with other signals and human intelligence, enabled the airstrike that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. - FT

The Patriot system can reliably strike targets like an F-15, and so we know it’s likely this was the system used.

* Patriot systems rely on multiple ID types to engage a target:

>Radar track behavior rules (it only shoots at things that act like a missile)

>IFF signature (a broadcasted automatic signature between fighter craft and ground systems)

>Link-16 (an integrated system for IDing friendlies in the air space, that is shared via integrated command)

>Air tasking order data (the equivalent of an issued flight route)

* F-15 broadcast an IFF that Patriot batteries can detect when the proper encryption key is shared with allies.

* Kuwaiti Patriot batteries support Link-16 integration with US data when properly shared.

* Our agreement with Kuwait to operate regionally requires sharing all Air Tasking Orders in their air space.

* After a single friendly fire joint emergency command orders would need to be shared with Kuwait.

In order for Kuwait to hit 3 F-15 with Patriot friendly fire in one night would require ALL of the following:

* We didn’t share IFF encryption keys or ID data with them, or were not broadcasting IFF.

* We did not share Link-16 data with them, or Link-16 broadcast capabilities were destroyed.

* We did not share Air Tasking Orders with them.

* We did not share emergency alerts with them after the first ejection took place.

* The area was under extreme barrage of missiles FAR more than reported.

* There was no AWACS data sharing, or no higher level C2 node integration, or these were damaged.

So either:

1) We made an operational decision to ignore our standard practices and leave an ally in the dark, not share data and risk American lives

OR

2) The Iranian attack was *far* more successful than the US let on, and damaged critical ID and comms infrastructure of US assets in Kuwait.

Either way, we are not getting the real story from the US side here.

People with contacts in Kuwait, or active command, should be asking serious questions about this blunder.

As it likely points to a gaping hole in US defense that puts our service members at serious risk!

• Alvand class frigates destroyed

• Moudge class frigates destroyed

• Multiple Kilo class submarines destroyed

• Multiple Ghadir class submarines destroyed

• Iran’s largest naval vessel IRINS Makran, converted oil tanker serving as a mobile drone carrier

• IRIS Shahid Bagheri drone carrier destroyed