Actually, they acknowledge in the first instance that the carrier was being attacked and was taking evasive maneuvers that caused the jet to become loose. The second one doesn’t mention it explicitly. However, here’s another article talking about casualties on the 7th https://theintercept.com/2025/05/07/navy-jet-truman-red-sea-yemen-houthis/

Trump made the announcement on Tuesday, and the second F18 was lost on Wednesday https://abcnews.go.com/International/2nd-navy-fighter-jet-truman-aircraft-carrier-lost/story?id=121542299

I think so.

It’s the American way.

He’s making it up, and there have already been more attacks since he made the announcement.

I’m gonna treat this as a rumor until we have an official statement from China that it’s actually happening.

I very much hope this will end with a few border skirmishes. It’s clearly not rational to let this escalate, but unfortunately these things can easily take on logic of their own. Each retaliation can lead to a bigger retaliation from the other side, and things can easily spin out of control. Let’s hope cooler minds prevail in the end.

that’s right these are two completely unrelated events, you shouldn’t think too hard about these amazing coincidences

Pakistan is a critical part of BRI, and India is an important member of BRICS. A war between Pakistan and India will impede trade over BRI and sour relations between two biggest BRICS members. Given that the US is in economic war with China, it seems pretty obvious who the biggest beneficiary of all this is.

And it’s only 2% if the overall economy to boot.

Meanwhile, Chinese economy is already adjusting to the tariffs by redirecting trade domestically https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-04-28/trade-war-china-s-e-commerce-giants-are-putting-up-a-fight

So, let’s say they figure this out, US takes the L and drops their tariffs, what Chinese company is going to want to be reliant on trade with US going forward?

The US now plans to strip-mine the country’s corpse to recoup its losses. Nothing says ‘democracy promotion’ like colonial looting with extra steps.

haha carrier drifting is fun to watch, I can definitely see how they lost a jet doing that

We’re now getting to see how US navy performs when the enemy can actually fight back.

looks like it might be legit what happened

just imagine the structural stress from that

I’m still trying to imagine something the size of a carrier making hard turns

A US official said that initial reports from the scene indicated that the Truman made a hard turn to evade Houthi fire, which contributed to the fighter jet falling overboard.

oh hey it’s this whole whataboutism we keep hearing about

that would be hilarious

Although, I doubt he even cares what they think. His constituents are the financial capitalists whose interests he represents.