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Trump ‘probably in panic mode’ over US jets shot down and missing pilot in Iran, says his former national security adviser (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Not just shot down & captured. He spent 5 1/2 years as a POW, enduring both torture & years of solitary confinement.

While a POW his father was named commander of all US forces in Vietnam. The Vietnamese offered to release him then as a propaganda tool, but he refused.

I’m sure President Bone-spurs would have jumped at such a chance to be released like that. Assuming he would have survived the solitary confinement & torture.