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I've heard two reasonable theories about this:
The first theory passes Occam's Razor but the second theory is consistent with the US ignoring and downplaying Iraqi/Iranian attacks on US bases in Iraq and Syria. It's possible that the US knows that it's aura of military invincibility is failing after it put so much into Ukraine only to get smoked. That Aura is the only thing keeping every enemy of the US reigme from kicking off a conflict which would overstretch the US military and lead to the collapse of the US empire.
That's not a new issue. Back during Iraq, the navy(?maybe marines) tried to mobilize a reserve that was supposed to use F-14s(?).
Turns out there were like 9 actually ready to fly and they had 1:60 flight:maintenance ratios because parts that weren't expected to fail and didn't have parts were failing so they had to be savaged from other craft.
Paper tiger but the kids have been doing crafts this week and they used all the paper to make woke bunting for International [oppressed group] Week.
Both scenarios seems plausible. If US military is just sabre rattling then it makes sense they're downplaying the incident. However, accidents like these aren't entirely uncommon, and US military does have a habit of crashing planes.
USN, especially, has had ships hitting freighters and subs hitting underwater mountains (lmao, assuming that that's not a cover for getting owned by Chinese ASW).
The underwater mountain was actually a dastardly CCP plot. You see in the DPRK they have Juche necromancy, much less well known is China's Marxist superpower of quickly constructing anything they want, including a whole mountain under the ocean that didn't exist on the US navy's charts.
One day they're cruising happily around underwater, the next that mountain that wasn't there 48 hours ago is in their patrol path and bam, coyote on painted tunnel type damage. Meanwhile Xi Jinping is snickering in the background.
Under water mountain painted to look like a big school of fish. A school of Marxism fish.
ha
Was it an F-35? cuz those pieces of shit were crashing all the time a year or two ago.