The Pentagon Is Posting Cryptic Biblical Messages on Social Media
Defense Department accounts posted the biblical quote “SEND ME.” The Pentagon won’t say if its proselytizing is a message about the Iran war.
Decades of hostilities broke out into war during Donald Trump’s second term after Israel and the U.S. launched unprovoked attacks against Iran.
Defense Department accounts posted the biblical quote “SEND ME.” The Pentagon won’t say if its proselytizing is a message about the Iran war.
Harkening back to colonial massacres, Trump abandons the premise of proportionality for butchery in Iran and beyond.
U.S. troops killed or wounded since July 7 are now counted separately from casualties during the first months of the Iran war.
As the U.S. runs short of interceptor missiles, Iran is carrying out strikes with a mix of attack drones and advanced ballistic missiles.
Iran’s strikes caused dozens of casualties and the first deaths in action since the ceasefire collapsed, a U.S. official said.
The Pentagon said there were “zero reports” of deaths over the weekend — then announced a new death on Monday.
“He must be trying for the record of how many times you can lose the same war.”
Voices
Despite extracting extraordinary concessions, the reaction in Iran isn’t entirely jubilant. Past betrayals are too recent to forget.
Company records reviewed by The Intercept show Israel urged Facebook and Instagram to take down posts supportive of Iran.
The official count of U.S. personnel hurt or killed in the war on Iran inched up, but it still omits hundreds of known casualties.
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