• humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    14 hours ago

    He had a press conference, very recently, “over soon, but if Iran does anything more, destruction of everything”. including reference to shipping in Straits. Iran knows he’s bluffing, and has run out of missiles, and will not put the navy within their drone range, but at any rate, Trump’s Israel masters won’t let him off the hook.

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      2 minutes ago

      The cost differential between ballistics and interceptors (10x or more) would be one factor but doubt the US/Israel is close to running out yet.

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        31 minutes ago

        They don’t produce that many per year, and they need rare earth material access to build more. Trump feeling the need to say there is an unlimited supply, should be proof enough that they’ve run out. The Quadrupling of orders could affect future wars, but is a definite reaction to limited current supplies.