CNN dropped the number tonight, and commanders are calling the stockpile "dangerously low": nearly four-fifths of THAAD gone, roughly half the Patriots, with replacements arriving at about twenty Patriots a month.
Larry Johnson has been saying the official numbers were too rosy for months, and he walks through his own open-source math on what's actually left in the Patriot arsenal.
His figure will make your jaw drop, and then he names the one mineral America needs to build more, and the one country that controls 99% of it.
From there Larry connects the night's chaos: another tanker struck in the Gulf of Oman, a Houthi sea drone sinking a ship in the Bab el-Mandeb, drones hitting a US base in Kuwait, and his blunt call on whether strikes come back tonight.
Forty years ago an American carrier sailed those waters untouched.
His verdict on why that world is gone: "Iran has all grown up."
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