I like how China and Russia are mentioned as adversaries that the US might be less likely to deter with their dwindling supply of long-range munition, but the country that so helpfully "received" (being bombed) all that supply and is the reason for the stockpile being minimal right now, isn't mentioned as an adversary that could take advantage of this.

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tclancy 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Think Ukraine is the reason the US is low on missiles? Do the numbers actually support that? The numbers don’t seem to support that. From a very cursory search, offensive missiles seem to be around 2:1 Iran. And that’s just raw numbers; someone other than me who might do a little moral editorializing would point out the use in Ukraine was to fight off an illegal invasion while the most effective strike in Iran killed a hundred schoolgirls.

	▲	embedding-shape 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Think Ukraine is the reason the US is low on missiles? I wasn't intended to imply Ukraine is an adversary, AFAIK to the US, they aren't. Edit: I realize my original comment was a bit ambiguous, I'm talking about Iran, I've now put "received" into quotes.

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actionfromafar 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ukraine will take advantage of low PrSM stock ... how?