U.S. AWACS Completely Destroyed on the Ground in Saudi Arabia

E-3 Sentry.
Replacement cost approximately $700 million.

Predictably, most of the stuff on the interwebs is hysterically anti-Trump/anti-war. So it's hard to tell what one should actually believe about this.

I still would rather Trump have focused on domestic policy...something he's largely right about. His foreign policy chops seem a lot dicer to me. Since early on my main concern about Trump was that he might start WWIII...

OTOH, I do to some extent agree with those who say we can't kick the can down the road on Iran forever.

Not that I really have a right to an opinion.

Anyway:

It's hard for me to believe that anyone is surprised that we're taking losses. So I don't see why some people are freaking out about this.

One argument goes like this: 

If anything, this shows that it's better to hit them now, rather than waiting for them to get even harder to beat three years, five years, ten years hence...

But I really don't know.

This may well help the blue team win even bigger in November...