🇺🇸🇮🇷 America's long range missiles are running out, and the fallback would put U.S. pilots over Iran, one shootdown away from the next hostage crisis
Larry Johnson walked through the missile ledger, and it just keeps getting worse.
Rebuilding the Tomahawk stockpile alone runs to 2031 per the Telegraph, real Patriot production sits near 720 a year by his count against wartime burn, and China has stopped shipping the rare earths, 18 different ones for a single Tomahawk, that precision weapons cannot exist without.
An argument going around says shortages rarely stop wars, that presidents just reach for cheaper bombs and let politics decide.
His answer needed one sentence: ammunition to take out a threat "is the heart and soul of war."
And the cheaper bombs carry the real trap.
Dumb bombs need aircraft directly over Iranian territory, where surviving air defenses make every run a gamble the long range arsenal existed to avoid.
Lose two jets and the war gets a face: captured American pilots on nightly television, the footage that broke Washington in 1979.
That cliff sits one shootdown away, with 60% of Americans already against the war.
@NewSonof
