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U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war

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Re: U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war

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Post by nonethewiser »

mupuff1234 wrote: post #64

> A fourth person familiar with the matter said that while Central Command — which oversees U.S. forces in the Middle East — has nearly used up the land-based missiles it had before the war began, it has been able to reload from U.S. military supplies elsewhere in the world. The title seems fairy inaccurate

It also says they declined to say how many the US has left. And saying “person familiar with the matter” is doing a lot of work. It could be anyone with no direct information. This is what laundering a bogus story looks like.

Re: U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war

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Post by mupuff1234 »

tclancy wrote: post #74
mupuff1234 wrote: post #64

> A fourth person familiar with the matter said that while Central Command — which oversees U.S. forces in the Middle East — has nearly used up the land-based missiles it had before the war began, it has been able to reload from U.S. military supplies elsewhere in the world. The title seems fairy inaccurate

I don’t think the title is inaccurate and robbing Peter to pay Paul isn’t the military flex Pete Hesgeth may think it is. Anyone who has ever slept under a too-small comforter knows how this will go.

Moving resources within an organization isn't exactly robbing.

Re: U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war

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Post by pjc50 »

Arodex wrote: post #71
chmod775 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If they can exhaust all their firepower in a couple weeks fighting Iran, China would have no reason to feel threatened in the first place. The reality is that fighting China would be a proper all-out war, not whatever this spitting match with Iran is.

>not whatever this spitting match with Iran is. Are you openly saying the president and the secretary of war are lying when they say they have done "massive" bombings of Iran?

That's an easy one: I don't even have to look at what the facts are to be sure they're lying. Just a question of what about.

Although "massive" is a subjective word. Nothing can be as massive as WW2 carpet bombing.

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Post by pjc50 »

rbanffy wrote: post #42
PowerElectronix wrote: post #19

Now they'll exhaust interceptors and other long range missiles like tomahawks and whatnot. And then China gets frisky with Taiwan and the US will totally not abandon them and tell them to just give up pressured by the lack of firepower to defend them, the risks of China getting back into bidding oil in international markets and the mess the treasury would be in if China raises capital by selling bonds (they just told…

On the flip side, at least the press is not hammering the Epstein files and the lack of any prosecution for the crimes documented in those.

Much of the press is pro-regime or owned by regime oligarchs.

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Post by abcd_f »

Squarex wrote: post #5

That's hard to believe. US with it's military spending should be able to join two large scale conflicts at the same time, not to have problem with a one minor conflict.

Never underestimate how much damage a single high-ranked idiot can inflict on its own ranks.

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Post by peyton »

notaigenerated wrote: post #51
chmod775 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If they can exhaust all their firepower in a couple weeks fighting Iran, China would have no reason to feel threatened in the first place. The reality is that fighting China would be a proper all-out war, not whatever this spitting match with Iran is.

There won't ever be an "all out war" of nuclear states with each other. Only via proxies.

You could fight conventionally over logistics chokepoints. China’s not going to lob nukes just because their oil’s dried up.

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Post by dathinab »

BadBadJellyBean wrote: post #6

Did the US just have the same fate as Russia where they where feared for their military until they used it?

yesn't in case of Russia a lot of their military just "didn't work properly"/"was ineffective in a very fundamental way"

this wasn't the case for the US, their military did work and was effective in context of the specific think they where used for. It's just that the thing they where used for isn't effective in winning the kind of conflict the US did start.

while this is "just" the "non effective" part being some where else it is a very fundamental difference in the end

like to put it this way,

if weapons of mass destruction like nukes, bio weapons etc. would magically disappear an invasion and takeover of (part of mainland) Russia would be relatively viable (mainly by China, but others might want a slice, too).

on the other hand even without weapons of mass destruction trying to invade the mainland US still seems futile/to be a losing battle, no matter who tries it.

Re: U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war

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Post by Arodex »

Squarex wrote: post #5

That's hard to believe. US with it's military spending should be able to join two large scale conflicts at the same time, not to have problem with a one minor conflict.

"Minor" conflict? You really don't realize how much ressources Hesgeth has committed to this, and how much your president likes to make things go "boom".

See also: the number of strikes on boats in the Caribbean (with absolutely no result on drug trafficking).

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