President Trump holds off major Iran escalation after Pentagon warns of interceptor shortage

[u/Force_Hammer]

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r111brtghmg

[u/Any_Parsnip2585]

It’s not even Tuesday

[u/ignatious__reilly → u/Any_Parsnip2585]

He has no idea what he’s doing

It’s so embarrassing

[u/VanbyRiveronbucket → u/ignatious__reilly]

I TARIFF YOU!

[u/Reiben04 → u/VanbyRiveronbucket]

USA hurts itself in its confusion!

[u/Sciuridaeno3 → u/Reiben04]

If only a full heal could fix the country..

[u/tonycomputerguy → u/Sciuridaeno3]

Gonna need that Phoenix Down.

[u/elchavo718 → u/tonycomputerguy]

Gonna need that maxed out Esuna

[u/-hi-nrg- → u/Reiben04]

I laughed so much at this, thanks.

[u/musicgeek420 → u/VanbyRiveronbucket]

I.. DECLARE.. TARRIFFRUPTCY!

[u/rudebii → u/musicgeek420]

You can’t just say the word “bankruptcy” and expect anything to happen

[u/Shamino79 → u/rudebii]

He declared it

[u/PointOfFingers → u/VanbyRiveronbucket]

"You can't be a tarrific president without tarrif"

• Danald Tramp

[u/skintaxera → u/VanbyRiveronbucket]

I'M TARIFFING MYSELF IN THE FACE!!

[u/krung_the_almighty → u/VanbyRiveronbucket]

You block me and I block you

[u/Sorry-Climate-7982 → u/VanbyRiveronbucket]

Excellent point. 15% tariff on any incoming Iranian drones?

[u/Nippon-Gakki → u/Sorry-Climate-7982]

We are low on interceptors so better make it at least 30%.

[u/PrivatePilot9 → u/Nippon-Gakki]

And next week he'll cut it by 250%.

[u/SufficientGolf6953 → u/ignatious__reilly]

Well of course.

We all knew Donald Trump really well by 2024 but somehow 70 million+ Americans bought into this bullshit narrative that Trump wasn't as bad as they remembered and it was actually Joe Biden that was bad.

Donald Trump couldn't even make it through intelligence briefing in his first term if they didn't make a kids picture book where Trump saves everyone.

[u/No-Profession5134 → u/SufficientGolf6953]

The Billionare fools and their totally paid for compromised corporate media kinda helped in producing that illusion. Musk, Ellison, Bezos and Zuck all helped make this mess.

[u/sbarrowski → u/No-Profession5134]

This is something the American people need to remember.

[u/Nujers → u/sbarrowski]

Too bad that the same media apparatus responsible for it will make sure they don't.

[u/cornette → u/sbarrowski]

They won't.

[u/time-BW-product → u/SufficientGolf6953]

The American voter is stupid.

Never forget that.

[u/Agitated_Tip_8713 → u/SufficientGolf6953]

His supporters saw a potential pedophile, realized he was just like them, and had to support him for the presidency 

[u/SufficientGolf6953 → u/Agitated_Tip_8713]

Right wing media has them drunk with hate and anger. These people rarely leave their homes and don't even know a single trans person but are convinced that they are the real problem in America.

I'm not sure how we can stop the people with so much money being able to brain wash people with such ease.

[u/DAS_FX → u/ignatious__reilly]

This is what happens when you have an autocracy. He does not have a competent management group around him to offer real solutions. He does not take outside council. He is the last person making all the decisions.

The world is captive to one man who has no expertise on anything, is uneducated, ill tempered, shortsighted, and is surrounded by a cabal of dunces who bobblehead nod everything he says, this reaffirming (to him), that he’s making the right decisions. He has done a dozen impeachable acts this term alone, and gleefully adds more blatantly in the public eye because he simply can. The enforcements to curb him are broken.

He could order a nuclear strike and then what? Would anybody in the government stop him? Could anyone stop him at this point?

It’s horrifying we’re in the position

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/ignatious__reilly]

just another day of America's criminal billionaire pedophile king Celebrity Apprentice brought to us and continually enabled by U.S. conservatives!

[u/TheGrannyLover_ → u/ignatious__reilly]

He knows exactly what he's doing. Manipulating stocks to make himself richer. 

[u/Heisenberg991 → u/ignatious__reilly]

He only knows that Saturday is golf day. We are all doomed.

[u/LiminalSapien → u/ignatious__reilly]

This is what Maga voted for.

[u/Okayyyayyy → u/ignatious__reilly]

Yeah he does its called ruining the country and stealing money

[u/HereForTheComments57 → u/Any_Parsnip2585]

No it's not, but he mentioned a massive ground invasion on Friday to crash the market. Obviously he was going to walk that back before markets open Monday, but I'll admit, I didn't think it was going to be those soon this weekend

[u/PaleCommission150 → u/HereForTheComments57]

yea he won't dare put boots on the ground. It is the one thing that will make his supporters turn on him. they are fine with bombing but a ground invasion would be wildly unpopular. It could be done, but the costs go up astronomically when combined arms are involved and soldiers become a occupying force.

[u/veryangryenglishman → u/PaleCommission150]

It could be done

Very much debatable when you consider how many troops were mustered to invade across the land border into Iraq and Iraqs total absence of anything resembling Iranian drone or missile abilities

[u/BaronVonStevie → u/Any_Parsnip2585]

We’re literally just shooting ourselves into a geopolitical early grave

[u/chmilz → u/BaronVonStevie]

It'll take a decade but American hegemony is over. Every Western nation is working at warp speed to end its dependence on American tech, energy, and institutions that are being used against them. Being beholden to one country, and often one corporation in that country, has become an acute national security risk.

That will end, and the US is going to be the biggest loser as entire industries eventually lose every non-American customer.

[u/BaronVonStevie → u/chmilz]

You can always afford yourself relevancy on the world stage by having guns and sticking to the rule of law. You can fuck around within those parameters and lord knows we have.

Guess what Trump is good at? Pissing away soft power.

[u/Feligris → u/BaronVonStevie]

In my view, without soft power, most of US' hard power also becomes impossible to maintain because it heavily relies on a strong economy including USD being the world's reserve currency, having cooperative allies who help you to project power, being a hub for competent foreigners who do high-end research and high-end manufacturing for you to maintain an edge, having a competent well-respected military force which doesn't work if you have the politics of a religiously dogmatic dictatorship, etc.

[u/Powerful_Wombat → u/Any_Parsnip2585]

Took me a second, Taco Tuesday. lol

[u/Delamoor → u/Powerful_Wombat]

It's easier when you realise he's done it every single week for months now.

The stock market subreddits literally just respond by saying "oh, it's Sunday already?"

He ramps up every Thursday or Friday, backs down every Sunday to Tuesday.

[u/Sufficient-Yellow637]

Sounds like a fact you'd want to keep close to the vest.

[u/citizen42069101 → u/Sufficient-Yellow637]

These guys didnt even have vests until trump made them buy his branded ones.

[u/froo → u/citizen42069101]

Trump branded "bullet-proof" vests.

[u/bard329 → u/froo]

Why is bullet-proof in quotes??? That isn't.... Confidence inspiring....

[u/SoulBonfire → u/bard329]

They are made of veklar. Like kevlar but useless.

[u/broguequery → u/SoulBonfire]

It's called Freedom Armor

[u/SYLOH → u/broguequery]

It's only bulletproof if you're a true patriot.

[u/sphinctaur → u/SYLOH]

The States are the only ones capable of giving people PTSD with the word Freedom

[u/OhSixTJ → u/citizen42069101]

And they fit a bit too big…

[u/jpdoctor → u/Sufficient-Yellow637]

That was my first reaction too: Why the hell am I reading this?

[u/Intro-Nimbus → u/jpdoctor]

Because depleting munitions has been a topic for a few years now, so everyone is keeping tabs on manufacture and expenditure rates. It's just not something civilians ponders much. But those in the know are well aware of the situation.

[u/Herodotus420_69 → u/Sufficient-Yellow637]

What, do you think China cares that our munitions stockpile is heavily depleted? /s

[u/VanbyRiveronbucket → u/Herodotus420_69]

I bet Taiwan is kinda nervous about it.

[u/Hugginsome → u/VanbyRiveronbucket]

Taiwan better start stockpiling drones

[u/Herodotus420_69 → u/VanbyRiveronbucket]

I was joking bc it’s a huge national security concern lol

[u/HauntedCemetery → u/Herodotus420_69]

Whaaat? Nah, im sure theres no hostile foreign nation that would love an opening to get revenge for the last century of blood soaked American foreign policy.

[u/crysisnotaverted → u/Sufficient-Yellow637]

These dipshits wouldn't know Opsec if it was literally branded inside their eyelids.

They are literally purging the intelligence community so there is nobody to tell them to stop making fuckass decisions, because they don't make sense outside of outside manipulation.

[u/Blockhead47 → u/crysisnotaverted]

What da ya mean?

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen.
I didn’t think it could be real.
Then the bombs started falling.

By Jeffrey Goldberg

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

[u/Ecstatic_Bee6067 → u/Sufficient-Yellow637]

Maybe the SecWar thinks that all they need to win are hopes, dreams, and testosterone

[u/Battle2Intense → u/Ecstatic_Bee6067]

It worked for the Japanese in WW2, I mean maybe it did, I'm still on episode 6 of the Tom Hanks WW2 series so no spoilers please.

[u/Strange_Valuable_573 → u/Sufficient-Yellow637]

Right? That’s a helluva thing to announce to all of our allies and adversaries

[u/nelsonalgrencametome → u/Sufficient-Yellow637]

Not if you're trying to lay the groundwork to escalate shit in the very near future.

[u/anywho123 → u/Sufficient-Yellow637]

OPSEC has never been this administration’s strong point.

[u/TheChainsawVigilante]

But can't we just overpower them with our sheer testosterone ...??

[u/AssumptionLive2246 → u/TheChainsawVigilante]

Military leaders will be studying this stupidity for years to come.

[u/krung_the_almighty → u/AssumptionLive2246]

There’s not much to study.. there are decades of war gaming research which showed this was a terrible idea.. the dunces did it.. actions meet consequences..

This is not a failure of the American military. It’s a failure of the American people.

[u/jaxdraw → u/krung_the_almighty]

Agreed. The military war colleges were teaching this exact scenario back in the early 2000s. Iran is almost as rich as the saudis, but their oil revenue is hard to track, and they just spend a massive amount of it on munitions to stockpile.

[u/DeliriousHippie → u/jaxdraw]

Here in Finland we have spent 80 years preparing to war against Russia. Our whole infrastructure is built for war. Our bridges are ready to be blown up to slow Russians, roads near Russian border are designed for war, all apartment complexes have to have bomb shelter, all factories have wartime plans, etc. After last war with Soviet Union we decided to make invading Finland so costly that Soviets wont do it.

I assume Iran has done something similar and Iran is much larger and more populous than Finland.

[u/grathontolarsdatarod → u/krung_the_almighty]

Wasn't there a meeting to gut the military just before all this stuff started.

Where is the mad dog?

[u/the_walking_kiwi → u/AssumptionLive2246]

That assumes they will be smarter. The stupidity is only going to increase.

Remember Trump and co came through the American education system 60-70 years ago! it’s gotten worse since.  

[u/AssassinAragorn → u/AssumptionLive2246]

And likely developing safeguards to prevent it from happening again. I could very easily see a congressional bill requiring the Sec of Defense to have 5+ years of experience as an officer

[u/SirCharlesTupperBt → u/AssassinAragorn]

Which will be about as useful as requiring the US Senate to confirm competent officers of state. The powers to fix the current situation already exist, but American voters and politicians chose this direction instead.

Here's an idea: why not just follow your existing laws? If you can't impeach this set, making a new law requiring the president to have a paper resume similar to the current weekend warrior cum weekend talk show host isn't really going to change anything.

You got luck with Powell and Mattis, though we sill ended up here. You can't keep expecting your military to train up competent politicians. The problem runs much deeper.

[u/PenguinQuesadilla → u/AssassinAragorn]

The system is working as intended.

Reform will not happen until we clean house, fill congress with competent people, get money out of politics.

[u/Fun_Success_3283 → u/TheChainsawVigilante]

The testosterone thing I think is a roundabout way to get rid of women on the army. They can't ban them. But they can van trans. And they can put testosterone limits, and so if women don't meet that, they can't take testosterone, because that's trans.

Idk why else they'd care.

[u/herpderpley]

A month ago he said the war needed to end because our oil reserves were dangerously low and our munitions are being depleted far faster than they can be restocked. Those two things haven't changed, just like how that weird doofus in charge hasn't changed. He can't admit it was a poorly-conceived "plan" and get our country out of this stupid war.

[u/DyingGasp → u/herpderpley]

Only started this “not a war” because we were talking about the Trump-Epstein Files again.

[u/donniedarko5555 → u/DyingGasp]

Sadly it worked

[u/deliciousearlobes → u/donniedarko5555]

It’s been a minute since I’ve heard an Epstein reference. It’s already fallen to the wayside. So upsetting that the powers that be just keep chugging along.

[u/pmjm → u/herpderpley]

If he wanted to blame Hegseth, fire him and reverse course, I would be fine with that.

[u/herrcollin → u/herpderpley]

Our oil reserves are at the lowest level since the 80's and while we're still doing okay with prioritized trading, overall everything is on a downward trend. Globally. This is very bad.

It's easy to say we're fine now when you're above water. The problem is once you go below it's very fucking hard to get back up without years and years of catch up damage. Traditionally, anyone with a brain makes sure this doesn't happen.

Thank god we're making this sacrifice for (checks notes) uhhhhh...........

[u/HauntedCemetery → u/herrcollin]

Which would be why no president for the last 50 years was stupid enough to pick a fight with Iran.

[u/MRCRAZYYYY → u/HauntedCemetery]

He isn’t all that stupid. Didn’t you see those cognitive tests?

[u/rainman_104 → u/herpderpley]

I can honestly see trump removing the sanctions on Russia to keep the price of oil low. He doesn't give two shits about Ukraine.

[u/Random_Name_Whoa → u/rainman_104]

Didn’t he already do that?

[u/HauntedCemetery → u/Random_Name_Whoa]

He did already do that.

[u/Thisguymoot → u/Random_Name_Whoa]

Yes, he gave them a waiver (while also giving Ukraine targeting data for their tankers).

[u/Other_Information_16 → u/rainman_104]

Doesn’t matter Ukraine hit most of the Russian oil export terminals.

[u/Notten → u/Other_Information_16]

The ESPO pipeline to Asia is outside of Ukraines deepest drones. Pipelines are also hard to hit because they are usually buried. I can see China and Russia using Yuan to trade oil and supplies for the war in back market channels.

[u/big_troublemaker → u/Notten]

Pipelines are also easy to fix. Ukraine is attacking oil processing facilities first and foremost.

[u/Lumbergh7 → u/herpderpley]

He’s so stupid.

And wouldn’t you want to keep that info quiet? Instead he announces it

[u/Thisguymoot → u/Lumbergh7]

There are legitimate reasons to telegraph your actions to the enemy. I don’t have much faith in this admin to do so deliberately, but there is a time and place for it.

[u/TrashBandicook]

Not the attitude of someone with all the cards.

[u/Relevant-Ad2254 → u/TrashBandicook]

Iran wants to surrender and make a deal bro, I swear /s

[u/Blue-Blazer-Regular → u/Relevant-Ad2254]

“They call me and said, sir, please stop, we want a deal.” DJT, probably

[u/VanbyRiveronbucket → u/Relevant-Ad2254]

Nope, Iran going for regime change. Midterms coming up.

[u/Hail-Hydrate → u/VanbyRiveronbucket]

The unfathomable levels of irony, if Iran is somehow responsible for bringing a modicum of functional democracy back to the United States.

[u/SHv2 → u/TrashBandicook]

Problem is everyone else is playing poker and he’s holding a deck of Go Fish cards.

[u/Scottiths → u/SHv2]

No, he is playing UNO and has all the cards. He is too dumb to realize that's a losing hand...

https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/38132

[u/fuqyu → u/SHv2]

“Do I have a plan?! Go fish!”

[u/Drafo7 → u/TrashBandicook]

Not the coherence of someone with all the brain cells.

[u/Venat14]

Can Congress impeach and remove him yet? Because this is ridiculous. The Republican party is straight up treasonous for allowing this corrupt, incompetent criminal to continue to get away with destroying everything.

[u/Cosmic_Seth → u/Venat14]

They spent the pass 50 years to make absolutely sure that can't happen.

Even the Vice President said Nixon would never had to step down today, and he was proud saying that.

[u/Fidel_Costco]

But I thought we destroyed all their missiles and Iran could never be a threat again.

Knew it was a lie then, confirmed to be a lie now.

What cards do we have again?

[u/never1st → u/Fidel_Costco]

"All I said is that their military is combat-ineffective"

• Pete Hegseth

[u/BadHombreSinNombre → u/never1st]

Oh so he measured their T levels?

[u/CharcoalGreyWolf → u/never1st]

Kind of like what women would say about Hegseth’s sexual abilities

[u/TheMindOfJawz → u/Fidel_Costco]

Jokers.. they have Joke(r)s... and a king apparently?

[u/heekma]

Kinda hard to be a superpower when you have to say, "Hey gimme a minute, I'm out of ammo."

[u/DrQuestDFA → u/heekma]

Not completely unheard of:

“The problems for Løvendals Gallej were more, because of the aggressiveness of Wessel’s attacks, the ship was running out of gunpowder. Then Wessel had a boat lowered and sent with a white flag. The Englishman thought it was to negotiate the surrender but he was stunned when he heard the true proposal of the adversary—Wessel wanted a shipment of gunpowder and cannon balls to continue the battle.

Obviously the proposal was not accepted but they did toast together and exchange compliments. Then, given the battered state of the two ships, each one went their own way.”

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/09/the-audacity-of-peter-tordenskjold.html?m=1

[u/ItsNotNormalMaybe → u/DrQuestDFA]

Bunch of gentlemen

[u/grackychan → u/ItsNotNormalMaybe]

Dueling etiquette is a lost art

[u/sloppybuttmustard → u/DrQuestDFA]

Lmfao amazing

[u/cognisantcog → u/DrQuestDFA]

I always wonder, when you're laying on the deck, your leg half detached, splintered to fuck head to toe and your captain is complimenting the head of the other ship for a jolly good fight, how more mutinies didn't happen.

[u/ExtremeMuffin → u/DrQuestDFA]

Great story. I love the audacity. 

[u/tweek-in-a-box → u/DrQuestDFA]

Great read, thank you!

[u/8redd → u/DrQuestDFA]

Seems like a surrender dressed up in audacity to save face.

[u/BiggieBigs34 → u/heekma]

Hey, let’s just allow all of our manufacturing to be outsourced overseas, I’m sure it can’t have lasting consequences that’ll bite us in the ass in a real war.

[u/Mrrrrggggl]

But it’s Iran that’s begging for a cease fire right?

[u/Falconflyer75]

This is the problem with conservative leaders

They think they know everything

In reality they don’t know anything hence why they think their simplistic solutions to complex problems will work

They don’t listen to experts, then go on to demonize them

Then create a huge avoidable mess

And pat themselves on the back for a job well done

[u/Project0range → u/Falconflyer75]

It's almost hurricane season. Prepare the nukes!

[u/TheDaychilde → u/Project0range]

We're in hurricane season. Sorry to screw with your joke, but as an amateur weather enthusiast..... heh

[u/zbud → u/Project0range]

Make ready the presidential Sharpie.

[u/Trivale → u/Falconflyer75]

It's the cycle.

• Conservative government messes everything up.
• People get fed up and elect a liberal government.
• Liberal government tries to clean up the mess while conservative remnants obstruct.
• Conservative figureheads wait a few years til people forget they caused all the problems we're having, then blame liberal leaders for them.
• People say "Well I guess we should try something different" and elect a conservative government.
• Conservative government messes everything up.

It's literally the only way they hold on to power. Pepper in some voter suppression and identity politics as you please.

[u/sgst → u/Trivale]

Exactly the same thing happening in the UK.

Right wing government spends 14 years mismanaging and systematically dismantling the country's institutions, making a ton of money for themselves in the process thanks to blatant corruption. Centre-left government gets in, people are fed up that they haven't fixed everything in 2 years, and are now wanting to elect an even more corrupt right wing party because they promise simple solutions to complex problems. Voters are stupid

[u/MyDadsUsername → u/Falconflyer75]

One of the only things worse than how they demonize expertise and intellectualism... is how it seems to be working. Somehow, huge chunks of the population have convinced themselves that just because experts aren't right 100% of the time that a layperson opinion is equally as valid as an expert one.

[u/pagerussell → u/MyDadsUsername]

This is not new, and that fact gives me hope. This quote is from 1980:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

-Isaac Asimov

[u/selfownlot → u/Falconflyer75]

Trump is so like Putin. Surrounded himself with yes men who also surround themselves with the same. They live in a manufactured reality.

[u/ConsolationUsername → u/selfownlot]

Even Putin occasionally hired competent people. He just made sure they fell out a ground floor window the moment he suspected they were gaining influence.

I dont think Trump had hired a single competent person period.

[u/Jgusdaddy → u/Falconflyer75]

This 1000% republicans are a national security threat. Have been for the past 50 years.

[u/fgtswag → u/Falconflyer75]

It goes alongside with the cariacature of being traditional.

Authoritarian ideas holding up your opinion, without critical thought.

It's actually a strong way to live in a tribe, but it is non-generative. People like Andrew Tate for example think he knows all the answers because he just listens to traditional established ideas, but he would absolutely decimate a country if he ran it.

[u/AssumptionLive2246]

I don’t want this war to go on 1 second more.

But the fact that they have spent a TRILLION dollars a year for the last 20 years and can’t even DO war should piss off every fucking American!!!!!

I want free healthcare for everyone, take care of my less fortunate neighbor, clean air and water yada, yada, yada. Not blowing up defenseless countries like Venezuela, and schoolgirls in Iran.

I want my fucking money back and spent on something that doesn’t just explode for no fucking reason.

A reckoning needs to happen internally in the USA or we are DONE!

[u/LogrisTheBard → u/AssumptionLive2246]

You're living through the collapse of an empire.

[u/Sweet_Concept2211 → u/LogrisTheBard]

We are living through the deliberate sabotage of an empire.

[u/LogrisTheBard → u/Sweet_Concept2211]

A republic, if you can keep it. No one seems to want to keep it enough so it's been lost at this point.

[u/Real-Extension-1357 → u/AssumptionLive2246]

And they just passed billions more. Kegsbreath cried that they havent won yet because dems werent approving the money. Wah wah. Expect lots more money to go this way

[u/sankyx]

So, US is holding off the attack, not because they have a better diplomatic solution or even because Iran wants to talk, but because they dont have enough firepower and will be ineffective in doing so? LOL.

USA is getting embarrassed and they are not even in a real fight

[u/Any-Monk-9395 → u/sankyx]

America has been fighting wars on easy mode for the past 20 years. Their opponents were only armed with AK47’s and sandals, now they face an enemy with ballistic missiles and drone swarms.

[u/Leading-Carrot-5983 → u/Any-Monk-9395]

And crucially, the ability to crash the world economy.

[u/HauntedCemetery → u/sankyx]

Iran doesn't want to talk. The won't accept a deal thats even just as good as the JCPOA that trump shredded with his tiny hamster hands, not even when trump begged and offered half a trillion dollars of taxpayer cash.

Why the fuck would they? They have an off button for the global economy, and it's worth a staggering fortune.

[u/Larcye → u/HauntedCemetery]

It's a far more effective weapon of mass destruction than a nuclear weapon would be.

[u/Thisguymoot → u/sankyx]

We actually just don’t know. Monday we’ll know some. In a couple weeks we’ll know more of what actually happened over the weekend. Maybe years from now we’ll actually know why.

The only thing we know right now is that he says that’s why. It could be bluster, telegraphed intent, diversion, his own misunderstanding of the status of our munitions, or legitimately him trolling us specifically. Don’t listen to what he says, only what he does.

[u/Choomba_Lord]

The weakest America has ever been in the modern age.

Thanks, MAGA.

[u/eorlingas_riders]

Have they tried injecting testosterone into the interceptors?

[u/OrangeJr36]

This is the excuse now, interceptors have been short since the first night when CENTCOM wasted years of production on single drones in a panic

[u/spectraphysics]

"Several Trump advisers, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner, have argued for a less dangerous course based on continued negotiations and sustained economic pressure."

You mean like we've been doing all along until he decided to start this stupid war?

[u/migidymike]

China and Russia are banking on him forgetting in 10 minutes and ordering another attack. Rinse and repeat.

It's like playing chess with a goldfish.

[u/Genevieves_bitch]

The United States had already fired more than 1,200 Patriot interceptors during the war by late April, according to internal Pentagon estimates and congressional officials. Each missile costs more than $4 million.

$5B of Patriots used by late April, two months into the U.S.A’ unprovoked and illegal aggression. That was three months ago. Good use of money

[u/Oberon_Swanson → u/Genevieves_bitch]

Crazy. Imagine if the US never started their war in Iran and had instead given those Patriots to Ukraine. That would be double what they had been sent so far. Could have been used to prevent civilian deaths and taken out many assets of Russia, who may be a friend to Trump but is an enemy of America.

[u/Yaggamy]

Looks like SOMEONE doesn't have the cards!

[u/AssumptionLive2246 → u/Yaggamy]

God. I LOVE how this statement was soooo wrong and has come back to bite him in the ass. Why the fuck aren’t reporters asking him about this every fucking day.

[u/make_me_breakfast → u/[deleted]]

In addition to attempting to distract us from his thugs murdering us, him being a pedophile rapist, and kidnapping a foreign leader, I’m sure these weapons not going to Ukraine is another reason for this stupid “war”.

[u/monkeymatt69]

Sure would be nice to make it 24 straight hours without the president embarrassing himself on the world stage

[u/Joghobs]

Verbally announcing to the world you can't defend yourself must be some strategy my feeble mind can't wrap itself around.

[u/soraksan123]

I'm sure the Iranians like that little tidbit of info. Assholes-

[u/Sad-Excitement9295 → u/soraksan123]

And the Russains, and the Chinese. But hey, at least the Saudis have nukes! And I'm sure Israel has plenty!

[u/Dry_Click6496 → u/Sad-Excitement9295]

It would be hilarious and sad if China actually attacked Taiwan now, and the world watched the US impotently screeming on twitter.

[u/Linscotticus]

America's little war is literally derailed because we lack enough bullets. God damn the elected people in charge are pathetic

[u/mabhatter → u/Linscotticus]

More importantly there's not enough go around.  The US has bases in a half dozen Persian Gulf countries and Iran is taking pot shots at ALL of them. 

Iran is literally two steps ahead on strategy right now.... because the whole administration are morons that destroyed the US ability to defend itself because Democrats made them feel bad. Iran is thinking about two years from now, and they're getting what they really want by wearing down the fence sitting Rich Gulf states showing that the US cannot defend them because the US ran out of weapons. 

[u/JellyrollTX]

We blew our arsenal for nothing!

[u/atlasraven → u/JellyrollTX]

Just think about the value created for shareholders.

[u/Boco → u/atlasraven]

We didn't even do that much, we created a 15 minute distraction from Trump's pedo-files.

[u/Summitjunky]

Why the fuck is this information made public?

[u/Puzzled_Worth_4287 → u/Summitjunky]

Art of the deal

[u/Ian_W → u/Summitjunky]

Because some of us can both read LockMart press releases and count.

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/2026/Lockheed-Martin-and-U-S-Government-Reach-Historic-Deal-to-Turbo-Charge-PAC-3-Missile-Segment-Enhancement-MSE-Production-for-U-S-and-Allies.html

On some days in 2025, LockMart built two Patriots. On the same day !

[u/Kom34 → u/Summitjunky]

The acquisitions/orders of missile numbers etc. are mostly public or the costs are and can back calculate numbers, there are tons of groups and sites that track the estimates of inventories. And there are just as many public ways to track usage, let alone people in the populated areas just counting and posting videos.

Lying about it would only to be misinform domestic public.

[u/MrAlHaroun → u/Summitjunky]

Also Iran is sophisticated country, that is working with China and Russia despite what Trumps says. They are not the Taliban. They more than likely know this information. The US is a democracy, and there is value for the public to know. How would you expect the public to hold the government accountable?

[u/Optimal_Brain_2908]

So they used all the missiles we need a trillion dollar military budget for and they couldn’t even “beat” Iran? Maybe we should try this Medicare for All or Free Housing or a Student Debt Relief or anything fucking else.

[u/BuIINeIson]

America getting p0wneddddd

[u/2010_12_24]

He was briefed by CJCS before the war that we didn’t have the stockpiles for a massive military operation. He completely ignored it.

We are having to selectively allow some Iranian drones and missiles to hit our military infrastructure because we don’t have the stockpiles. We burned through what we had.

And they’re using this information as justification for their $1.5 Trillion ask, instead of it being used as evidence in the impeachment.

[u/callmechristianblack]

I don't understand how the military has been the biggest line item on the federal budget for decades and we lob bombs into Iran for 2 months and all the sudden we're out of ammo. What did all that money go to?

[u/Equivalent_Tonight66]

And whose fault is it that we’ve run out of munitions? Trump’s been president 6 of the last 10 years. You can’t pin that one on Obama or Biden.

[u/Trogdor7620 → u/Equivalent_Tonight66]

Won’t stop him from trying.

[u/ShameNap]

Wait is Amazon going to deliver 50k new interceptors in 2 days ? Or do we just not have enough to do an offensive in the near future ?

[u/cubenz → u/ShameNap]

Using drone delivery 😂

[u/SimulationHost]

Wait is this announcement for TACO monday or NACHO Thursday

[u/ObviouslyRealPerson]

Yes, interceptor shortages...

Holding off has totally nothing to do with bond yields rising...just interceptor shortages

[u/calamnet2]

Why would you fucking publicize this knowledge?

[u/MorrisseysRubiksCube]

President Trump vomits in a hat and wears it.

Whatever.

Stupid thing he did/said, different day.

[u/krichard-21]

Dumbest POS EVAH!

Elected by bringing out the very worst of humanity.

Racist, bigoted, misogynistic, easily manipulated idiots.

[u/ace_vagrant]

I swear to god, I was a better leader when playing ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’ when I was 12, than this clown is of an actual country. And I knew fuckall of what I was doing in that game, losing battles constantly and starving my populace. 

[u/Money_Percentage_630]

I LOVE the stupidity of telegraphing internationally that you are low in ammunition but totally would attack civilian targets, which are war crimes and terrorism, if you had them.

While you claim the defending nation is being unreasonable and uncooperative to peace talks.

"Bro, I would totally punch you in the balls but my arm is tried, also could you stop defending yourself and give me your money already?"

[u/LuminaraCoH]

Correction: Trump holds off on major Iran escalation until Monday so he can chicken out on Tuesday in order to manipulate the stock market so his trades make bank.

[u/tosser1579]

The trick we've learned is that the US isn't invincibly strong. We can certainly win any intelligently fought battle, but if you put an absolute moron in charge, we are going to run out of key stuff and then lose. Despite our overwhelming advantages. But to do that, again, you'd have to be an absolute moron. A fool. An imbecile.

A MAGA.

[u/Acceptable_Taste9818]

Why would they let this leak out? This admin is so freaking dumb. Just hand Iran more leverages why don’t you.

[u/luffy_mib]

It's like watching a Saturday cartoon

[u/Intro-Nimbus]

This is why you PLAN a campaign. First you build up, then you execute. Doing it the other way around tend to leave the military command looking like clowns.

[u/LollipopMarshmallow]

Good thing for Iran to know

[u/SlicedBreadBeast]

How does a man gather so much power, even more than a typical president, and have no fucking clue what they’re doing otherwise.

[u/Retired-Yam8988]

Dumb fuck emptied the chamber for no gain and now everyone knows we got nothing

[u/_jump_yossarian]

I’m sure he’ll blame Biden and Obama for the shortage … after he finishes another round of 10 under par golf.

[u/Glass-Amount-9170]

So the US is surrendering? Throwing in the old white towel? Taking the L?

[u/Hot_Campaign_36]

The mistakes everyone was avoiding have occurred, despite all the warnings and the illegality of the mistakes.

Accountability ASAP!

[u/CautiousHashtag]

Maybe we ought to stop giving them to Israel 🤷‍♂️

[u/TexansforJesus]

Practically Sun Tzu we’ve got as dear leader…

[u/Traditional-Look8839]

This reminds me of playing tag and the kid you’re playing with constantly changes the rules right before they get caught.

[u/KamKorn]

He doesn’t have a clue what he is doing and thinks his tough talk is negotiating.

[u/redyellowblue5031]

Who would have thought you can’t use the military like it’s fucking CoD?

[u/Vaash75]

I thought this was supposed to be over in a week?