Read that number again. One out of twenty-seven.
Zelensky said the reason out loud: there are no Patriot interceptors left to fire.
Nine dead that night.
At least seventeen more killed in today's wave, one of the deadliest of the year.
Russia isn't hiding what it's doing, it's capitalizing on an American arsenal the Iran war bled dry.
Major General Randy Manner, 36 years in uniform and former acting director of the agency that guards America's most dangerous weapons, connects it all. Why every adversary on earth read the depletion reports as an invitation.
Why the missiles now coming off American production lines will stay home while allies wait empty-handed.
Why a $12.7 million interceptor against a $100,000 drone is a losing equation no budget can fix, and why the Ukrainians fighting on nickels and dimes are the best in the world at the war America forgot to prepare for.
Then the sentence that should end every Pacific briefing: "If someone wanted to do something in Taiwan, we'd be screwed."
And his warning about the next war is scarier still, because it doesn't involve missiles at all.
The Iran war is ending. Its bill is just starting to arrive, and Kyiv is paying it nightly.
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