The United States shot down more drones and missiles than Israel did on Saturday night during Iran’s attack, The Intercept can report.

More than half of Iran’s weapons were destroyed by U.S. aircraft and missiles before they ever reached Israel. In fact, by commanding a multinational air defense operation and scrambling American fighter jets, this was a U.S. military triumph.

The extent of the U.S. military operation is unbeknownst to the American public, but the Pentagon coordinated a multination, regionwide defense extending from northern Iraq to the southern Persian Gulf on Saturday. During the operation, the U.S., U.K., France, and Jordan all shot down the majority of Iranian drones and missiles. In fact, where U.S. aircraft originated from has not been officially announced, an omission that has been repeated by the mainstream media. Additionally, the role of Saudi Arabia is unclear, both as a base for the United States and in terms of any actions by the Saudi military.

“U.S. intelligence estimates that half of the weapons fired by Iran failed upon launch or in flight due to technical issues,” a U.S. Air Force senior officer told The Intercept. Of the remaining 160 or so, the U.S. shot down the majority, the officer said. The officer was granted anonymity to speak about sensitive operational matters.

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    You’re trying to summarize a situation into something small and easy for people, but it’s complex and shitty

    It’s definitely shitty, but the choice to support a genocide or not is surprisingly easy…

    Like, you act like what good Biden has done inexplicably comes with the evil Biden does.

    We could have someone that helps.more and does less evil.

    To take it back to my “small and easy” analogy, someone that shakes your hand, or at least just gives one of those barely noticable head nods without a change in facial expression even.

    You’ve let the guy who kicked you in the nuts lower the bar too much, youve forgotten what acceptable behavior looks like.

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      We could have someone that helps more and does less evil.

      Really? Who?

      You “genocide joe” folks keep saying there’s a better choice, but nobody will give me a name, a website, a campaign address I can send money to, anything. Show the candidate that can literally win in 7 months. Otherwise, you’re asking me to put my family at additional risk for the payoff of helping exactly 0 people in Gaza… unless you define helping as Israel “finishing the job.”

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        You want one name?

        Elizabeth Warren.

        But that’s not the only name.

        Hell, the major reason for voting Biden is literally that he’s not trump, a qualification everyone eligible to run for president shares, except trump.

        Do you honestly think 7 months isn’t enough time to run a general campaign? Why is the primary not scheduled to end for two more months if that’s true?

        Seriously, how can you rationalize the primary not being scheduled to end for two more months if that’s not enough time for a general campaign?

        I’m dying to hear your answer.

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          I actually voted for Warren in the primaries last cycle. As far as I know, she isn’t running this cycle and isn’t on the ballot in any states that have already passed the8r registration deadlines.

          I know for a fact that 7 months isn’t long enough to run a presidential campaign because, again, you have to have filed to run usually a year in advance. Unless you’re suggesting that Warren is running the best write-in campaign in American history. I’m happy to help her, but I’m a little worried I haven’t heard a word about it from her or any PACs.

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            So you think if Biden did the right thing and drops out, she wouldn’t run?

            Before you were saying she couldn’t, now you’re saying she wouldn’t…

            I know for a fact that 7 months isn’t long enough to run a presidential campaign

            So why do you think the DNC only gives 5?

            And if they’re making such obvious wrong choices and you’re so much better at this, why are they still running the only party against trump?

            Shouldn’t we have people as smart as you running the party if you’re so obviously right?

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              If the bar for running a campaign is “knowing it’s hard to win the electoral college if you aren’t on the ballot” then yeah, I guess I’m qualified…but being so smart, I know there’s quite a bit more to it than that.

              I think that campaigns start during or before the primary…you know, when the media starts talking about who’s gonna run and what their positions are…then all the commercials start running…that all feels pretty campaigny to me. So I can’t really comment on why you think the DNC doesn’t let folks campaign before the convention. Feels like that’d make voting in all those primaries a lot harder.

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                . So I can’t really comment on why you think the DNC doesn’t let folks campaign before the convention.

                Oh ok, you don’t know what other people are saying…

                That’s why you can’t understand.

                Hope that helps. Best of luck in your future interactions

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                  I’m not the other person, but that’s obviously not helpful and simply makes you look immature. Either explain where you think someone’s gone wrong or leave out the “hope that helps.” Or don’t, and everyone reading is reminded of that scene from the big Lebowski

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      You’re right, we should bring back the guy who kicked me in the nuts, but now has threatened to kill me too. Genius level.

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        If it’s too late to change candidates, why hasn’t the DNC convention taken place?

        Why did they schedule it so late in the summer that they missed multiple state deadlines to be on general election ballots?

        And if your answer is going to have anything to do with the DNC being completely incompetent: why are you insisting we keep letting them be the only thing that stands between America and trump?

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          If it’s too late to change candidates, why hasn’t the DNC convention taken place?

          Who, exactly, would be an ideal candidate at this point to replace Biden that has a hope in hell of winning? Who, exactly, has the national recognition to pull that off in the Democrat party, or really any other party, in November of this year?

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            Elizabeth Warren off the top of my head, but lots of people can.

            But you’re ignoring the reason most people are voting Biden is he’s not trump. Name recognition hurts Biden.