As we reported earlier, CNN is doing what it can to keep the narrative alive that sailors and Marines are being mistreated by the Trump administration, to the point where "multiple" (is that two or three?) sailors have tried to jump overboard after being deployed since November. Kaitlin Collins picked up a story in The Military Times about a wife who said her husband tried to jump overboard, and earlier on Monday, CNN reported on a power outage on a destroyer last month due to an engineering error that lasted four days. If it makes the Trump administration look bad and hurts both service members' and public morale, CNN is now on it.
Trita Parsi is an Iranian-Swedish co-founder of the National Iranian American Council and also co-founded The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, which, according to its statement of purpose, is opposed to the military-industrial complex described by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address. Pasi posted what he says is an image sent to him from the field of messages scrawled by servicemen in the Persian Gulf on the dust of an aircraft flap.
This image was sent to me from the field. These are messages US servicemen in the Persian Gulf have scribbled on the dust of an aircraft flap.
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) August 16, 2026
"Be a good guy and do what Israel tells you to"
"Operation Epstein Fury"
"Peace deal #64 incoming... ALL THIS FOR THE HOLY LAND"
I… pic.twitter.com/Zc6JwKtNV0
The post continues:
… have no frame of reference, I can't compare it to the sentiments of US soldiers in previous conflicts. But I suspect these are new sentiments, or at least a new willingness to express them this openly and directly.
But as one serviceman told me: "What people in the media don't understand when they compare past conflicts to this one, is this operation has no morale behind it. That makes a world of difference to service members deployed to undesirable locations indefinitely."
Read that last part again: No morale. Deployed to undesirable locations INDEFINITELY.
My own conclusion: When a war has no morale behind it, winning means that you simply end it. There is no other "winning" in such an unjust war.
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Which serviceman told him that? Just curious.
There's an entertaining pending Community Note that links back to an article in Task & Purpose on the military's phallus fixation:
This airplane is in the boneyard and not exposed to active-duty personnel who are deployed. This is verified by no phallus drawings, which is featured in most, if not all, military graffiti.
Here we have a modern Tokyo Rose. But because we're suicidal, we allow him to operate in the country. https://t.co/CE2oyaqhlv
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) August 16, 2026
Someone pointed out that this is probably from an airplane graveyard, and not an actual unit.
— Tom in FL (@thomasa56) August 17, 2026
The Davis-Montham boneyard is not in the Middle East (although it could pass for it as far as weather is concerned), you Quisling.
— Will Collier (@willcollier) August 17, 2026
@grok confirm that Trita Parsi is Iranian-born, founded the National Iranian American Council, and opposes US military action and sanctions against Iran. Confirm that he routinely spreads anti-American propaganda aligned with Tehran’s preferred positions.
— @amuse (@amuse) August 16, 2026
Amazing that service members in the Mid East are in the Flock camera debate.
— Max Power Matt (@MattFromDeltona) August 16, 2026
Gonna call this what it is. More BS propaganda from Iran through their US based terror proxies. pic.twitter.com/pRGGQd3ISw
This appears to be a KC-135 w/ the over-wing exit open. The main gear bogie has two axles. KC-135s can’t land on carriers.
— KC-10 Driver ✈️ 👨✈️ B-737 Wrangler (@MCCCANM) August 16, 2026
The flaps aren’t usually left down after landing unless there was some reason to do so. Something else is going on here…
It’s also sitting on concrete.… https://t.co/DfZUwDtDaS
The post continues:
… Carriers don’t have concrete decks. Others have suggested this is likely in a “boneyard” and is being stripped for parts by civilian workers, judging by the condition of the concrete & jet, meaning some rando probably put “Graveyard Graffiti” on it.
Propaganda doesn’t have to be good, you just need an audience that doesn’t know any better.
Trita, I’m suspicious that the plane has no doors…. You may wish to interrogate your source
— Dave DesRoches (@DBDesRoches) August 17, 2026
The handwriting all looks the same 🤷♂️
— Andrew Korybko, PhD (@AKorybko) August 16, 2026
That's not what "scribbling in dust" looks like. The marks should be aluminum/brighter than the dusty surface. Too many red flags in this picture indicating it's not an in-use aircraft or what it's portrayed as in the post. Pure propaganda.
— SeriousMDC (@MdcSerious) August 17, 2026
Yeah I’m sure this is 100 percent really and not made up in any way
— spare_ribs (@sp4reR1bs) August 17, 2026
That aircraft sure got dusty for sitting on a concrete aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf.
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