{"id":90188,"date":"2026-04-06T07:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90188"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:40:20","slug":"the-thing-about-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90188","title":{"rendered":"The Thing About Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hey, Eurotrash. \u00a0Meet Americans. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re pretty famous for not letting each other get captured by barbarians:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lose all this to rescue 1 pilot and call it your greatest military success of all time. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EB36KGNxC5\">pic.twitter.com\/EB36KGNxC5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Daniel Foubert \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 (@Arrogance_0024) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arrogance_0024\/status\/2040700125882859864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Aw, shucks. \u00a0But no, our greatest military success of all time was liberating this weasel&#8217;s homeland and the rest of Europe, in a war we didn&#8217;t start but that the French\u00a0<em>could\u00a0<\/em>have ended in 1939 before it really got going. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, yeah &#8211; that&#8217;s us.  Once we lost 18 men trying to get back a single chopper pilot &#8211; and <em>he <\/em>was already dead . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; we lost two MC130s, each costing $114M, plus three Kiowa &#8220;Little Bird&#8221; choppers that couldn&#8217;t be loaded out in time. \u00a0 To save one guy. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To a European Air Force, that&#8217;d be a crippling loss to their fleet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To the US, it means we&#8217;re down to 57 MC130s. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now &#8211; if you&#8217;re a Euro fighter pilot, what does this tell you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shout out to the 24 y\/o European males learning their people would do an equipment risk calculation vs their life if shit goes hot<\/p>&mdash; Jebus (@Jebus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jebus\/status\/2040833733541158999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although I wouldn&#8217;t worry too hard.  If you&#8217;re a European pilot operating outside of Continental Europe, you&#8217;re gonna have to have American support to have gotten there in the first place.  So you&#8217;ll probably get rescued too.  By Americans.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, Eurotrash. \u00a0Meet Americans. \u00a0 We&#8217;re pretty famous for not letting each other get captured by barbarians: Aw, shucks. \u00a0But no, our greatest military success of all time was liberating this weasel&#8217;s homeland and the rest of Europe, in a war we didn&#8217;t start but that the French\u00a0could\u00a0have ended in 1939 before it really got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90191,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90188\/revisions\/90191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}