President Donald Trump said Friday during remarks in Florida that the United States would take over Cuba “almost immediately,” suggesting an aircraft carrier could be positioned offshore after the conflict in Iran.
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While the president’s comments appeared partly joking, they followed concrete policy action in the form of broadened sanctions.
If I had a dollar for every time I read the “American military running out of ammo” story, I’d be richer than a Lockheed executive.
Americans are so easily gaslit on this shit. You can jump out behind a corner shouting “We don’t have enough tomahawk missiles!” and they’ll reflexively hand you $20B.
It’s not that it can’t be true they’ve expended a significant part of the stockpiles, it’s more that the implication isn’t that they won’t be able to prosecute the ongoing or another war, just that they’ll be somewhat limited by it and that if shit really hit the fan in the form of China for example they want to have a stab at it too then they could be in more trouble.
Reminds me a lot of the similar stockpile counting with regards to Russia in Ukraine.
And they’re using supplies faster than they’re restocking. But they’re also running out of targets and slowly Iran’s capacity to fire ballistic missiles in kind.
So we get hysterical coverage of what is normal and expected changes in munitions to drive stone broader narrative of military resumes and whose to blame.