Hey, Eurotrash.  Meet Americans.  

We’re pretty famous for not letting each other get captured by barbarians:

Lose all this to rescue 1 pilot and call it your greatest military success of all time. pic.twitter.com/EB36KGNxC5

— Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 (@Arrogance_0024) April 5, 2026

Aw, shucks.  But no, our greatest military success of all time was liberating this weasel’s homeland and the rest of Europe, in a war we didn’t start but that the French could have ended in 1939 before it really got going.  

Anyway, yeah – that’s us. Once we lost 18 men trying to get back a single chopper pilot – and he was already dead .

So – we lost two MC130s, each costing $114M, plus three Kiowa “Little Bird” choppers that couldn’t be loaded out in time.   To save one guy.   

To a European Air Force, that’d be a crippling loss to their fleet. 

To the US, it means we’re down to 57 MC130s.  

Now – if you’re a Euro fighter pilot, what does this tell you?

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

— Jebus (@Jebus) April 5, 2026

Although I wouldn’t worry too hard. If you’re a European pilot operating outside of Continental Europe, you’re gonna have to have American support to have gotten there in the first place. So you’ll probably get rescued too. By Americans.

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