cross-posted from: https://expressional.social/users/Peter_Link/statuses/117111291491626544
#Photo - Anti-war messages from US service members in Persian Gulf
from Trita Parsi on FB - Aug. 16, 2026
This image was sent to me from the field. These are messages #US servicemen in the #PersianGulf have scribbled on the dust of an aircraft flap.
“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 suspect these are new sentiments…
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.
Interesting if true