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'Beyond gas prices, Trump also faces the challenge of how to quickly refill shrinking military stockpiles. The Trump administration is expected to ask Congress to provide more money to help pay for the costs associated with the war, including the purchase of Patriot, Tomahawk and Thaad antimissile systems, which have been in heavy use since Israel and the U.S. began their strikes.

But such defensive equipment, along with munitions, can’t be manufactured quickly—even though Trump has been trying to browbeat defense contractors into ramping up production.

“Hopefully, we had our eye on the ball on this before we went into this conflict,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R., Ala.) told reporters last week. “It takes years to build these things—not days, not weeks, but years,” he said, referring to the Thaad antiballistic-missile systems, which are made in Alabama.'

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-comes-under-pressure-to-address-gas-prices-iran-war-strategy-85ebd616

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You know we began ramping up production a couple of years ago and now that production is coming online. The US employes a layered defense system allowing for certain areas to run to zero and there still be coverage. Redundancy is amazing.

Oh and dont forget about the Navy's HELIOS that is silently in operation in during this conflict. For a whooping couple of dollars..... Who else has that type of weaponry operational? Well Israel does have Iron Beam but who has them on boats.... shooting down targets or well these targets randomly getting destroyed I should say without munitions fired at them....

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Yes China won the trade war and so USA tries to retain hegemony with brute force military aggression.
What a poor loser Trump and USA are.
Trump is a war criminal leading an empire in chronic moral, economic and military decline.
Trumps invasion of Iran is just as much a war crime as Russia invasion of Ukraine.
The USA has lost any moral high ground if it ever had any.

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