weird thing here in centcom's statement on its airstrikes (on twitter, sorry) is that it says it lost a predator, not a reaper. that's an old and relatively cheap airframe, and the whole point is they don't have a pilot so we don't get too upset if one is downed
This is a re-run of "the Soviets are behind all anti-nuclear protests" from the Cold War.
Wandering the woods in Lower Saxony this morning.
I'm old enough to remember when foreign nongovernmental actors fomenting stochastic violence was treated as a serious national security problem.