David and Goliath: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vs American Empire

Goodbye GI, I know you're salivating at the opportunity to rape, loot, and murder with impunity but a shahed drone is turning you and your "brothers" in the marines into dog food.

May god judge you fairly. Torment awaits you, and your mother, who will refuse to believe the flesh, bone, and entrails that paint the inside of the HUMVEE you rode in on are yours.

Amongst the wreckage of the aircraft sent to search for the American pilots who were ,earlier this week,shot down by Iranian anti-air systems, is what is believed to be the body (and perhaps soon to be bodies) of an American airman.

Shrapnel on a nearby helicopter rotor indicates that the aircraft was initially shot down by an anti-aircraft missile. And, while the crew sat in wait for either a rescue party or a confrontation with nearby Iranian military personnel, the downed aircraft was struck by more missiles.

The Hannibal directive was utilized during the October 7th Al-Asqa flood to prevent Israeli hostages from being taken by the resistance. This meant tanks firing on vans, as they drove back toward the separation wall between Occupied Palestine and Gaza. Apache helicopters rained 30mm explosive rounds on entire roadways, obliterating every vehicle they could based on the chance that there may have been hostages in them.

Hostages offer leverage for prisoner exchanges. Hostages offer leverage during negotiations for whenever the time for “peace talks” arise. But worst of all, hostages talk. They carry with them the story of their failure, of the failure of their armed forces. They reveal the fallibility of Empire. That even with hundreds of billions of dollars devoted to creating weapons of war, tools of conquest made to make those who opposed the western hegemony submit, those who resisted foreign domination would persist.

The implication here being that the Hannibal directive was used on the crew members of the aircraft that was downed during their rescue operation. The upper brass, most likely at the direction of Pete Hedgeseth himself, knew that images of American forces being forced into the back of IRGC jeeps would be a national embarrassment. They had just claimed, after all, that Iranian air defense had been completely incapacitated.

Videos have come out as well of nomadic tribesmen and villagers armed with bolt action rifles forming search parties and gleefully patrolling the areas that had been littered by the initial fighter pilots that were shot down. Some of the rifles they carried were initially developed in the fifties. If a bunch of hunters and shepherds were filmed parading around men who flew 200 million dollar aircraft with 4 million dollars worth of munitions loaded on them, it would be the perfect snapshot of the end of the American Empire’s legacy as an unstoppable, lethal force.

There’s countless videos of both these tribesmen and Iranian police officers firing at passing blackhawks which comprised the rescue team. Is it likely that their bolt action rifles and pistols brought down the Blackhawk helicopters or any of the other downed aircraft? We will never know, because the aircraft and their crews were annihilated since any testimony they could have possibly given would be certain to lead to embarrassment. They would lead to the deconstruction of the American mythos.

I wrote the initial section at the beginning of this article when I had heard about the U.S.’s plan for a ground invasion. After this display of a lack of air superiority, I am now more certain than ever that any GI that makes up the forces of a ground invasion will paint the mountain ranges of Iran with their blood. Their scattered chunks of flesh and bone will decay and be subsumed by the land they meant to rape.