Anger is unbecoming.
“Anger is unbecoming.”
Arrogant, insistent ignorance is even more unbecoming. It took all of ten seconds for me to find comparison info for the Su-27 and F-18 to find out they have hard points on their wing tips.
https://aerocorner.com/comparison/su-27-vs-f-18/
You have to go right into knee-jerk lying-for-Russia mode and try to pretend that the plane was an F-18 when your Russian masters already acknowledged it was their plane.
That takes a special kind of stupid to push lies that not even the Russian leadership are bold enough to push.
So is ignorance.