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The Pentagon has burned through so many missiles in the Iran exchange that Trump is dragging Lockheed and Raytheon CEOs into the White House like a failing factory boss demanding overtime.
The military admits to the White House the Iran strike consumed more long-range munitions than 4 years of Ukraine.
Trump is posting fantasies on social media about “unlimited supply” while Raytheon can barely promise to “eventually” reach 1,000 Tomahawks a year and the Pentagon only budgeted 57 for 2026.
The United States has about four-thousand, five-hundred missiles left. Iran is believed to possess 450,000.
The U.S. industrial base is so hollowed out they’re threatening contractors with punishment if they don’t ramp up, even though the system physically can’t produce at wartime tempo. This is a complete catastrophe.
America is finding out that one regional confrontation with Iran drained decades of planning assumptions. Assumptions by so-called "experts." Turns out, the "experts" weren't so expert after all.
They were apparently men who lived in their own echo chamber. Now, reality has made its presence felt.
A "superpower" doesn’t scramble for a bailout because a regional state answered back. A "superpower" doesn’t call defense CEOs to the White House like panicked paramedics around a dying patient.
This is what strategic exhaustion looks like.
Tehran absorbs the blows and responds with precision. Washington burns through decades of stockpiles in 72 hours and then passes the hat around Capitol Hill.
The mask of invincibility is slipping.
We can lose this conflict. The way things seem to be going, we may very well lose.
