Originally Posted by
Coborn C6
The US appear to be willing to let things die down - hence Trump's "standing down" remark. If they have evidence it was a rocket/missile then saying so now could re-ignite the tension. The evidence could still come out in due course as the investigation progresses.
If it wasn't a rocket/missile then the US have nothing to gain by saying so at the moment. The truth will come out in the investigation, but in the meantime there is no harm to the US position of leaving the cause of the crash as an open question, especially whilst there is speculation of an Iranian own goal.
And possibly the US wouldn't want to reveal exactly what their capabilites are at the moment when it relates to looking at things going on inside Iran.
Agree. All sorts of contradictory statements being made by Iran and Ukraine, social media all over the place, phony attacks on US air bases where it seems missiles were deliberately targeted onto vacant areas of the airfields to avoid casualties, and no doubt a US surveillance system in overdrive that would have spotted a mouse running for cover and would certainly know the whereabouts of any missile system launchers and command modules and if they had been fired.
We may not be in a hot war, but the only thing we can be sure of is that old adage:
"Truth is the first casualty of war".