Donald Trump told a Florida crowd that it is “treasonous” to say the US is not winning the war in Iran. The US president was speaking at The Villages in Florida, the world’s largest retirement community, when he made the remarks. Trump came to tout supposedly fulfilling his 2024 campaign promise to remove taxes on Social Security. It came after the president told Congress that the war in Iran had already ended, despite his earlier issuing a fresh threat to Tehran.
Trump keeps pointing to “their navy is gone their air force is gone” as proof the US is winning.
Years ago Iran evaluated what kind of a war they might face, and determined that their best shot was through massive amounts of ballistic missiles, drones, and small watercraft. This meant significantly de-prioritizing a traditional air force and navy. So yeah, they don’t have really any capital ships or fighter jets, but they never had much of those in the first place and haven’t been prioritizing that part of their military. But their missile and drone stocks - to say nothing of actual soldiers in their army btw - are all still doing pretty great actually. Destroyers and interceptor jets aren’t going to win the war for Iran and that was never their plan anyway.
The US is absolutely NOT winning this war, and they will not be able win this war.
There navy is gone, except for the armada of speed boats running mid-range recon and planting sea mines and launching drones.
Their air force is gone except for all the planes we haven’t shot down yet and their UAWs and etc etc.
Their leadership is all assassinated, except for the people currently in command.
We’re winning! We’re winning! We’re just a little behind as time is running out.
We’ve spent a quarter trillion dollars to destroy over a trillion dollars in Iranian infrastructure and massacre an innumerable count of their civilian population. If this is a war of genocide, we’re winning. At least in so far as they’re dying in far higher volumes than us.