It is very telling what the US military’s own press releases will not say. A recent award ceremony gave a Silver Star to Lt. Col. William Parks for gallantry during missions in early 2025. The official story describes a fifteen minute life or death struggle where he performed high G maneuvers to evade missiles that were detonating feet from his aircraft. He is credited with six aerial victories and personally defending against five surface to air missile engagements, all while preventing the loss of two other US jets.
“For 15 minutes, with enemy missiles detonating mere feet from his aircraft, Parks led his flight through a serious of high-G maneuvers and countermeasure employment” and coordinated the emergency deployment of tankers, which “prevented the probable loss of two aircraft due to fuel starvation.”
Parks was “Parks has been credited with six aerial victories protecting the lives of more than 5,000 Sailors aboard the USS Harry S. Truman” carrier, and “personally defended against five deadly surface-to-air missile engagements targeting his aircraft.”
The curious part they completely omit is who he was fighting. The release does not mention Yemen, the Red Sea, Ansar Allah, or the Houthis. The only clue is that his deployment supported Operations Prosperity Guardian and Rough Rider, the twin US campaigns against Yemen.
Absolutely, the 90s, when the US was an unchallenged world power, were formative years for these people. They’re still stuck in that time psychologically, unable to grapple with the reality of the world as it is today.
There is a downside. The western political sphere is also still stuck in the past, they believe in their own technological military supremacy. This is partly why there are still western politicians that believe they can win in Ukraine.
No side being supreme and the very slowly losing side being in total denial leads an endless grinding war that barely moves and never ends.
I think the war will end with the west having an economic collapse at this point. What I’m really worried about is that the US leadership will be crazy enough to go nuclear against Russia or China.