So Iran "shot down" an Apache "with a drone"? Not a missile? Seriously? and after this mid-air collision, both of the pilots survived the plunge? Really?
And "we hit them hard", a communications tower and two water tanks on a small island in the gulf? Meanwhile, Iran retaliated by hitting the 5th Fleet HQ in Bahrain, and a couple of the U.S. bases that still remain in the region in Kuwait and Jordan…
This is all so performative, so Hollywood. Everything this administration does is simply to control the news cycle, and thus the markets, in a feeble attempt to keep the U.S. and global economies from further imploding. Iran has established escalation dominance, ask the Saudis or the Qataris. I don't see that this Kabuli theater can last much longer. You can tell when Thump is lying: you will see his lips moving.
As long as Netanyahu, Jared Kushner and Tom Cotton are allowed keep calling the shots, the situation is going to keep deterioraing at an ever increasing rate.