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RT THE ISLANDER (@IslanderWORLD)These images tell you everything the Pentagon briefings will not. What you are looking at is an Iranian ballistic reentry vehicle escorted by a swarm of penetration aids — decoys engineered to simultaneously exhaust and blind every layer of the defensive stack: Patriot in the terminal phase, THAAD in the upper atmosphere, Arrow 3 in space.This is a purpose-built solution to a specific problem — and the problem Iran was solving was the entire architecture Washington spent hund ...