🔹 Reuters: End of the aircraft carrier era; USS Abraham Lincoln leaves the Arabian Gulf.
🔹 Reuters: Iran’s military prowess has proven that aircraft carriers are no longer “fortresses,” but large, costly targets.
🔹 CNN: National shock; how was a $13 billion asset disabled in minutes?
🔹 CNN: The return of USS Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. in this condition is the biggest blow to the U.S. military’s reputation since Vietnam.
🔹 Sputnik: The legend is dead; Abraham Lincoln arrived threatening but returned as floating wreckage.
🔹 Agence France-Presse: Panic at the Pentagon; with Abraham Lincoln’s withdrawal, the balance of power in West Asia decisively shifts in Iran’s favor.
🔹 AFP: U.S. allies in terror; if even the largest American warship cannot defend itself against Iran, no one can rely on U.S. support anymore.
🔹 The Telegraph: This defeat will be recorded in history as “the moment of Western naval dominance collapse.”