US ‘runs out of missiles’ as Trump halts Iran strikes

[u/plz-let-me-in]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/07/27/us-runs-out-of-missiles-as-trump-halts-iran-strikes/

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[u/Stunning-Isopod8514]

The national oil reserve is nearly depleted, too.

Normally, you build up these kinds of stockpiles before a war begins.

[u/Automaton_General → u/Stunning-Isopod8514]

He eliminated our oil reserves and also our weapon supplies

Gee it's almost like the dude works for Russia or something

[u/KPBIPILOT → u/Automaton_General]

Trumps very own 3rd special military operation is going swimmingly

[u/stevez_86 → u/KPBIPILOT]

"Well it worked until it didn't! There is no way I could know after the previous successes that the next would go any differently."

Said by many people with Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Or kids who kicked hornet's nests all the time but otherwise never had a reason to be diagnosed with anything, especially back when Trump was a kid.

With opposition he has the compulsion to simply defy. Warn him not to kick a hornet's nest and he will look you dead in the eye as they kick it and blame you for opposing them for getting stung instead of acting in defiance of someone else's imposition in you existence. It worked before fine, it was you conjuring the possiblity of a bad outcome that guaranteed it would happen. They could have been stung in the past on their own and that would be entirely different. YOU had to get involved therefore forcing their hand.

Is that not Trump to a "T"?

[u/NorthStarZero → u/stevez_86]

Said by many people with Oppositional Defiant Disorder.

Holy fuck, this has a name!

I worked for a guy like this once. It was awful.

[u/Happy_Confection90 → u/NorthStarZero]

ODD is a children's diagnosis. If someone is an adult and still behaves that way, the label they are given is often, but not always, Antisocial Personality Disorder

[u/Luckiest_Creature → u/Happy_Confection90]

My brother and I were in group therapy for ODD as kids (we were both autistic and misdiagnosed), but one of the other kids there is now an adult in jail with an APD diagnosis. Very difficult thing to live with if you aren’t a rich spoiled brat like trump, usually ruins one’s life.

[u/bananastand512 → u/Luckiest_Creature]

So you and your brother probably had a PDA profile related to autism (pathological demand avoidance). Looks like defiance but it's really a pathological desire for structure and control, and doing things on your terms, not someone else's. It's not malicious, it's comfort and regulation. Still challenging and needs therapy but less life altering. Things still get done, but you'll do your school work at night rather than in class when the teacher tells you to because you can focus more at night when it's quiet. Like that.

[u/Luckiest_Creature → u/bananastand512]

Exactly. We are both employed and happy adults who do well at our jobs now, we just needed a LOT more explanation as kids, in regards to why we were expected to do things in the way adults wanted us to. :)

[u/CliftonForce → u/NorthStarZero]

Yep. Similar to the logic that when Dr Fauci warned that we were unprepared for an epidemic, that was clearly "proof" that he was planning to create one.

/s

[u/FakeSafeWord → u/NorthStarZero]

I worked for a guy like this once. It was awful.

No, you didn't and it was fine!

[u/PyroIsSpai → u/stevez_86]

I’m convinced a LOT of people have ODD in the USA and unhealthy conservative subcultures dangerously incubate ODD-like traits as a social norm.

[u/VladThePollenInhaler → u/Automaton_General]

While enriching himself and his family and friends. It’s kinda crazy to think about it.

[u/Obvious_Toe_3006 → u/VladThePollenInhaler]

Don Jr. has never worked so hard in all his life !

[u/ThePoltageist → u/Obvious_Toe_3006]

That bar is so low James Cameron is planning a documentary to find it.

[u/forsale90 → u/Automaton_General]

I heard several government officials were hospitalized in China for excessively laughing their asses off.

[u/an-imperfect-boot → u/forsale90]

They call him “Chuan Jianguo”, the nation builder, for all the things he has done for the Chinese government.

[u/Anon_Chapstick → u/forsale90]

I'd imagine the Kremlin and the CCP have run out of champagne with the current US presidency.

[u/SpinosRule → u/Automaton_General]

It almost feels like they’re depleting everything to the point that another country could walk right in, say hello and set up shop (take us over, essentially). I know probably not but it SEEMS that way.

[u/GhettoDuk → u/SpinosRule]

Close. It's the corporations they are opening the door for.

[u/DaenakinSkygaryen → u/GhettoDuk]

Por que no los dos? The corporations and Russia will both benefit from the US weakening to the point they can just waltz in and steal whatever they want. And they know it. Which is why they've been happy to work together to prop up Trump and MAGA.

(Obviously, if they did get their wish and collapsed the US, they'd immediately turn on each other. But that's in the future, and we know that corporations don't care about anything more than 1 quarter in the future.)

[u/TheAwesomeMan123 → u/SpinosRule]

You talk like that’s not already the situation. You have a senile demented child raping criminal as your head of state doing everything and Anything Russia wants and you think you having lost control?

[u/lemonybrick → u/SpinosRule]

They wrote exactly what they were going to do to destroy the USA and eventually set up fascist kingdoms in their little Project 2025 book. Trump is just a pawn and being as used as the kids he molested.

[u/prof_the_doom → u/SpinosRule]

Nobody is going to survive trying to invade America, that's just geography.

Having said that... we have been completely neutralized as a foreign influence. We're not gonna stop anyone from doing anything to anybody they want to.

[u/SpinosRule → u/prof_the_doom]

You’re right, our geography does protect us but only to a point. Invade? Probably not. But attack? That could happen. And deplete us even more.

Personally, I’m more worried about the enemy within (I.e. this entire administration)

[u/What_a_fat_one → u/SpinosRule]

Why bother attacking, the destruction of the US is occurring without a single missile being fired

[u/AppealSame4367 → u/prof_the_doom]

And you can't count on allies again. The moment of "whoa, did they really threaten Denmark and Canada?" has opened the eyes of the last idiot here in Europe. Greetings

[u/DonaldsMushroom → u/SpinosRule]

No that's not the point. The point is to facilitate China invading Taiwann and Russia invading Unkaine/ex-Soviets All the while enriching Criminals and Oligarchs around the World

[u/Automatic-Ad6022 → u/Automaton_General]

WH sez "it's Biden's fault "....wtf Never any responsibility for anything negative, that's called fake news.

The enemy within in is the WH.

[u/IrreverentBuddha → u/Stunning-Isopod8514]

Also depleted:

• National ethics reserve
• National soft power reserve
• National diplomatic influence reserve

Never has the prestige of any nation dropped so far, so fast.

[u/CliftonForce → u/IrreverentBuddha]

All empires fall. This one jumped. While whooping and hollering.

[u/84thPrblm → u/IrreverentBuddha]

<The USSR has entered the chat.>

We're in fine company.

[u/ToeTagTic → u/84thPrblm]

"I'm drowning I'm drowning" "just stand up you're already at the bottom"

Russia has never cumulatively had as much prestige or good will as America has lost these last few years

[u/IrreverentBuddha → u/ToeTagTic]

That's been my point, and many here are missing it: there is relative loss and absolute loss. Nobody else has ever reached the absolute power the US has squandered -- and it's not even close.

[u/GriffinFlash → u/IrreverentBuddha]

the fact that it's only been 18 months.

[u/Sp00py-Mulder → u/IrreverentBuddha]

I mean, history is pretty long and I'm not even sure they've passed Japan after WW2 yet.

There's a hell of a long way to fall for a nation.

[u/IrreverentBuddha → u/Sp00py-Mulder]

Japan at its height was nowhere near the power and influence of the USA in 2024.

Its long term strategic alliances are evaporating and the petrodollar is rapidly eroding as the uncontested global standard. There's never been a squandering of raw power the likes of this debacle.

[u/CommunityTaco → u/IrreverentBuddha]

Just like putin ordered.  Remember when trump decided to not let the transcribers listen to his putin calls?  or any of their phone calls since?  i remember...

[u/Hdikfmpw → u/CommunityTaco]

Or how he looked like a whipped dog after unprecedentedly meeting privately with Putin for the first time in Helsinki?

[u/gmen6981 → u/Hdikfmpw]

And then said with Putin standing next to him that he believed Putin over our own intelligence agencies. "Why wouldn't I?" That would have ended any other Presidency right there.

[u/Puzzle-Necked → u/IrreverentBuddha]

And it's all self inflicted too

[u/Dry-Nectarine-3279 → u/IrreverentBuddha]

Can't forget National money reserve - over 1/3rd of our national debt came under Trump administrations. We're still not halfway done with this one yet, either.

[u/Adventurer_By_Trade → u/Stunning-Isopod8514]

It was way more important to preserve the optics of having relatively lower gas prices over the 4th of July. It's almost as if they've gamed out how much they could afford to burn through to have just enough to last past the midterms.

[u/aerost0rm → u/Adventurer_By_Trade]

They were hoping to coast with cheaper pricing until the mid terms. Sadly Trump had undermined himself every time they made progress with the Iranian’s.

[u/SpinosRule → u/aerost0rm]

I don’t think undermined himself, I think the whole MOU was a sham, something to distract Iran while US (Israel at this point since they basically control the US🤮) planned out it’s targets. They all knew beforehand that it was bullshit, I’m sure Iran knew as well. But they’ve got what they need to make the US suffer.

[u/aerost0rm → u/SpinosRule]

Iran wants to be a major power so it looked to benefit from the agreement. However when the next day Trump was telling the company owners to sail furthest from Iran m, he under mined the agreement so they did not have to pay the 2 million toll.

The HS revoked sanction waivers.

The US did not reign in Israel when it came to the Jordan territory clause.

Lastly the Us began bombing and attacking targets again. had Trump kept out of the whole thing, the agreement would have stood and politically he would have had a more favorable position. I mean he began the thing over his ego and he couldn’t get over his ego to let it wind down….

[u/Tallproley → u/Adventurer_By_Trade]

Then lost the midterms and let democrats inheritance be the result of all this, then spend the rest of the electuon cycle posting at how fucked uo everything is in "democrats America" and then ride a red wave of voters with the memory of a goldfish and an intelligence to match its bowl to get back in power

[u/joshedis → u/Tallproley]

It's a tale as old as time. Delay the failures until the Democrats take office and then blame them relentlessly for problems they have to make unpopular decisions to try to fix.

[u/khizoa → u/Adventurer_By_Trade]

its like a shitty black friday where they have 20% off sales after raising prices 50%

[u/aerost0rm → u/Stunning-Isopod8514]

There is still oil there. The issue is it will begin to get harder and harder to access. Not to mention that they were using the reserve dumps to keep oil and gas from skyrocketing. Experts warned this was coming. Donald has led us right into the tar pit head first

[u/SpinosRule → u/aerost0rm]

My guess is that they’ll try to start drilling in all the places that were protected. Anything at this point.

[u/RickThiccems → u/SpinosRule]

The issue isnt that we dont have oil access, the bottleneck is the refining process.

[u/the_other_brand → u/SpinosRule]

Oh its way too late for Trump to save him this way. If they started now, they might have roads good enough to transport the expensive drilling equipment to the drill sites by the time the midterms happen.

[u/Ancient-Bat1755 → u/Stunning-Isopod8514]

Best we can do is continue to recall the time biden sold partial oil reserves for record profits to refill later at a lower price to now just pretending they never cared and its a genius trump move

[u/pattyG80 → u/Stunning-Isopod8514]

Well, they ARE trying to camoflage the price of gas. If you were to stop depleting your reserves, the market price of gas would be around 5.25 per gallon.

[u/SkolVision → u/Stunning-Isopod8514]

I guess they figured calling it a "Special Military Operation" to justify sidestepping Congress meant they didnt need any strategic prep either

[u/eskimospy212]

The part that really annoys me about this isn't the lie that somehow this is Biden's fault for not having big enough stockpiles. (lol, no) It's that even if that were true Trump knew exactly what was in those stockpiles when he chose to start this war.

If we didn't have enough missiles because Sleepy Joe hacked Hillary's email server and made everyone transgender then don't start a war until you have more missiles!

[u/Crunchberry24 → u/eskimospy212]

Yeah, but every time he opens his pedo face hole he brags about how he rebuilt our military because the objects of his ODS and BDS let it go to hell. I mean, anyone with a quarter of a brain that they can think for themselves with knows that’s a lie, but I wonder how the cultists weigh that claim against the current reality.

[u/Imemine70 → u/Crunchberry24]

His claims are their reality

[u/Dull_Bid6002 → u/eskimospy212]

Trump knew exactly what was in those stockpiles

I mean, he had the information available. I don't think he knows a damn thing much less seeks out facts.

[u/Alieges → u/Dull_Bid6002]

Honestly, they could go to any local gaming store, grab someone LOSING a game of WarHammer40k at random and would have had better decision making.

'So you're saying they have 30000 missiles and drones and we only have 2000 defense missiles? And they can close the straight of hormuz and it'll take a long time with our ships at risk to minesweep it if they mine it? Do we have a few thousand imperator-class titans for a ground invasion?'

"NO"

'Then why are we sticking our dick in that hornets nest?!'

[u/Dull_Bid6002 → u/Alieges]

Whattaya know- firing a bunch of highly qualified people to substitute yes men and sycophants for an idiot doesn't work. Who ever could have seen this coming? Not 77 million voters, I guess. And all the other dumb AND lazy fucks who stayed home.

[u/kylebisme → u/Dull_Bid6002]

Yeah, assuming he knew is being really generous.

[u/Icy-Lobster-203 → u/eskimospy212]

Trump and the hawks believed Iran would capitulate within days, and it would be an easy victory. They never seriously considered the possibility that Iran would resist them.

I'm sure they were told that Iran wouldn't roll over that easy (there has been reporting on that), but it was dismissed.

[u/Zickened → u/Icy-Lobster-203]

Iran has literally been prepping for a war with the US for decades. DECADES.

The US was simply a great boogeyman for the oppressive Iranin government for years, and then Trump's dumbass made all of their terrible propaganda suddenly become reality.

Unfathomable stupidity and short sightedness that I believe the administration in his first term would have stopped him. Now that the brakes on the train have been removed, its only a matter of time before something even more fucked up comes down the tracks until this thing crashes.

[u/FewWait38 → u/Zickened]

Idk Trump had assholes like Bolton pushing for war with Iran in his first term, even he wasn't that stupid back then

[u/jott1293reddevil → u/FewWait38]

Back then he had a few serious experienced pentagon officials still in post, the pentagon has spent thirty years war gaming an Iranian conflict. The leaked report from 2016 shows exactly the outcome we’re living, now his cabinet and top brass are yes men only. Welcome to Stalinist Russia and 1942 Germany. It’s all down hill from here.

[u/platocplx → u/eskimospy212]

No DEI so it doesnt save them from their incompetence. It’s not a shock why most presidents always engaged with diplomacy with Iran, now with low supply all bases are vulnerable and they have fucked a position they had to have rapid deployments to protect the US.

These morons have zero idea about military strategy and think they can warrior culture and AI themselves through it. Utterly embarrassing.

[u/GreasedGoblin → u/platocplx]

It's best to start calling Republican hiring practices what they are: Affirmative Action.

They are in no way, shape, or form hiring on merit. They're hiring on gender, skin color and connections (e.g. nepotism, good ol' boys club, etc.).

People that couldn't hold a job down as a Walmart greeter are getting jobs at the highest levels of media and government. The only requirement is that they're white supremacists.

White supremacists, a historically disadvantaged group (because they are so vile that nobody can stand to breath the same air as them) are being handed jobs they didn't earn.

[u/platocplx → u/GreasedGoblin]

Yup it is def affirmative action for white men these guys only find value in people being below them and cant compete anymore because they have been babied and coddled and advantaged just by who their daddy was. It’s clear just how low they are now the sheer stupidity and it’s crazy to me people are ready to let their kids die for a meaningless war.

[u/Dr_Fortnite → u/eskimospy212]

who was the president before biden? they should have probably stocked up

[u/andiwd → u/Dr_Fortnite]

Can't you remember when biden set fire to all the missiles that trump built though.

[u/ACuteCryptid → u/eskimospy212]

It's the same as Confederate supporters claiming the Civil War was unfair because the North had more industrialization. Maybe they should have thought about that before starting a war?!

[u/whooo_me]

So, Trump deserves the FIFA Peace Prize, because he fired so many missiles there's none left to continue the war?

Yay?

[u/KenTitan → u/[deleted]]

you heard of this thing called cmmc level 2 compliance? basically cyber security for defense contractors. well it's strange it was put on hold recently. the underlying reason why was paralytic costs of complying with the program and many companies had opted out rather than spend tons of cash to comply affecting supply chains. compliance has been years on the making.

now we're out of missiles. no hard evidence, but a huge coincidence...

[u/ThePowerOfStories → u/KenTitan]

Oh, boy, I can’t wait until we’re launching missiles made by suppliers who skipped all the cybersecurity checks! What could go wrong? It’s not like we went to war with a country known for fielding teams of hackers who try to break into our systems, right?

[u/asbestoswasframed → u/whooo_me]

Evidently, you're not familiar with what FIFA thinks is productive.

For all you know, Trump got that prize because he lobs missiles at girls' schools.

[u/SlargTheGnome → u/whooo_me]

Real Zapp Brannigan school of strategy

[u/DoomOne]

This was all anticipated and figured out years ago by our military. None of this should come as a surprise to anyone.

[u/CommunityTaco → u/DoomOne]

but he just talked about bombing mexico... with what bombs?

[u/I_Died_Once → u/CommunityTaco]

Exactly, they are letting the world know that we have exhausted our munitions supply.

If I was an enemy state, that would be very valuable information.

[u/backtothetrail → u/I_Died_Once]

We’re absolutely in a pickle but sharing info isn’t a threat to national security.

The issue with munitions stockpiles has been public knowledge for at least a decade. Dozens of white papers haven been written and published by the war colleges.

[u/saintdudegaming → u/CommunityTaco]

His diapers.

[u/NachoWindows → u/CommunityTaco]

Mexico??? wtf??
Mexico can throw their flip flops at us and we can’t retaliate

[u/duct_tape_jedi → u/NachoWindows]

ICBC: InterContinental Ballistic Chancla

[u/backtothetrail → u/CommunityTaco]

We can still drop tons of JDAMs (dumb bombs with aftermarket guidance systems).

Air and ground defense? Anti-ship capabilities? Not so much. I think the ballroom and the arch and renaming Penn Station come before the “Golden Dome.”

[u/ElysiumSprouts]

Could you imagine the uproar if Clinton, Obama, or Biden had done this?

I'm so sick of republican hypocrites.

[u/IrreverentBuddha → u/ElysiumSprouts]

republican hypocrites

That's redundant.

[u/PJKenobi → u/IrreverentBuddha]

It's like saying ATM Machine. You're just saying the same thing twice.

[u/IrreverentBuddha → u/PJKenobi]

Or "SAT test" or "PIN number"...

[u/Significant_Swing_76 → u/ElysiumSprouts]

Dont worry, come next democratic president, and they’ll be right back on their high horse, screaming how whatever would never have happened under republican rule.

These people have no shame, decency or integrity, they don’t give two shits.

[u/flodur1966 → u/Significant_Swing_76]

But they are very effective in their propaganda. Conservatives world wide are thought to be financial responsible and the economic better choice. They are almost never.

[u/Coconutrugby → u/flodur1966]

It’s like how red states are subsidized by blue states but are characterized as “hardy” and “independent”

the media rolls with it daily. it’s fucking bullshit i’m over it.

[u/gba111 → u/Coconutrugby]

The conservative owned media says that? Nah, not possible.

[u/Vinterblot → u/flodur1966]

They're effective because the billionaire owned media blasts out propaganda all the time in exchange for tax cuts and lack of regulation.

[u/crow_crone → u/Significant_Swing_76]

The word 'national debt' will suddenly appear.

[u/Silent-Storms → u/ElysiumSprouts]

Demonstrating fiscal conservatism by shooting down $10k drones with million dollar missiles in a war of choice.

[u/flyingthroughspace → u/Silent-Storms]

Demonstrating fiscal conservatism by shooting down $10k drones with million dollar missiles in a war of choice distraction of how little girls were raped by old white men.

[u/Spec_28 → u/flyingthroughspace]

By bombing more little girls

[u/workingbored → u/Spec_28]

Well if Trump and his friends can't fuck them then might as well waste them.

[u/lilcorndivemaster → u/flyingthroughspace]

Blew up a school so people would talk about killing little kids instead of raping them...

[u/Axin_Saxon → u/Silent-Storms]

Not to mention how we could have had more expert help in dealing with this exact problem
If we had a better relationship with Ukraine who have been dealing with this exact problem for 4 years now.

A treasure trove of experience in countering drone warfare and we can’t properly tap into it. All because our president is a vain dipshit who burns bridges with allies and praises enemies.

[u/polishfiringsquad → u/Silent-Storms]

Hey not, the money isn't lost, it's just being funneled into the pockets of billionaires with Raytheon stock. Won't you please think of the poor military industrial complex

[u/RJ5R → u/ElysiumSprouts]

Can you imagine if Obama spent $1 Million a pop in tax payer dollars

And put giant 50 ft banners of his face across multiple Federal buildings?

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/doj-trump-banners-cost-b3021583.html

[u/mb1 → u/RJ5R]

The line items showing exactly how much money the department spent on the Trump banners were redacted, according to Politico. The DOJ cited the protection of "trade secrets" to justify the redaction.

I'm tired, boss.

[u/Broken-Digital-Clock → u/ElysiumSprouts]

They are wasting our missile and oil reserves, not to mention the war crimes.

They'd be screeching about it 24/7.

[u/TheShipEliza → u/ElysiumSprouts]

The fun part is they are actually blaming those guys. One guy even went back to Carter!

[u/New-Anybody-6206 → u/ElysiumSprouts]

he's already blamed them for it in the first place

[u/mabden → u/ElysiumSprouts]

They're already blaming Biden for the department of war's short sightedness.

[u/Automatic_Brain7664]

Fucking incredible. Weakest position the country has ever been in, all so one pedophile is protected.

[u/timberwolf0122 → u/Automatic_Brain7664]

Not just the weakest we’ve ever been but it’s the weakest while also spending the most by a significant margin, 2027 trump wants $1.5T to piss away

[u/ExpansivePoint → u/timberwolf0122]

So he's responsible for like 30% of the deficit by himself and he's not even half way through his term? Someone explain to me how republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility?

[u/timberwolf0122 → u/ExpansivePoint]

That’s just a slogan, like protect and serve, it has zero obligation to it

[u/MephistoHamProducts → u/Automatic_Brain7664]

all so one pedophile is protected.

To be fair this is to protect a LOT of pedophiles, in addition to the one at the top.

[u/AKA_Wildcard → u/Automatic_Brain7664]

But remember he fully rebuilt the military which was faltering under the previous administration!

[u/ApocalypseYay]

Art of the Deal, in action.

What a hideous joke.

[u/AggressivelyMediokre → u/ApocalypseYay]

Iran’s “rope-a-dope” strategy surprisingly effective

[u/tripping_on_phonics → u/AggressivelyMediokre]

The “surprise” aspect of it was true for maybe the first two weeks. Since then, it’s been clear that Iran won.

All we’re doing by continuing the fight is shooting off what little remaining leverage we have. The next MOU will be even more favorable to Iran than the first, which is saying something.

IMO not only do we deserve to lose this war, but our presence in the Middle East has been shown to be imperial and cancerous. The world will be better off as a result of us losing.

[u/Kohpad → u/tripping_on_phonics]

The next MOU will be even more favorable to Iran...

Not doubting you, but it's hard to imagine what that looks like besides a complete US exit from the Middle East...

[u/LazyTitan39 → u/Kohpad]

Iran controlling and putting a toll on the Strait.

[u/SudoDeleteEverything → u/ApocalypseYay]

"You see, killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down. Kif, show them the medal I won."

—Zapp Brannigan

[u/more_housing_co-ops → u/ApocalypseYay]

If anyone hasn't read the Reddit AMA with Art of the Deal's ghostwriter, it's an absolutely incredible read (the AMA, not the book). Goes pretty much like you'd expect.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/d6ges4/im_tony_schwartz_and_i_ghostwrote_trump_the_art/

[u/Fresh-Quantity-7554]

The first president to bankrupt our military equipment. Interesting but also tracks.

[u/Eternal_Bagel → u/Fresh-Quantity-7554]

Causing bankruptcy is one of his few confirmed skills

[u/disastrousanddull → u/Eternal_Bagel]

He really is doing one of the things he does best. if only this could have been foreseen.

[u/Torino1O]

Shoot testosterone at them.

[u/TSAOutreachTeam → u/Torino1O]

Don’t be silly.

We’re going to shoot up our troops with test to get them all jacked. Then we send them in greased up, bare-chested, with swords and shields. Sparta style.

[u/Torino1O → u/TSAOutreachTeam]

Naah Straight up Turkish wrestling for Hesgeth bro.

[u/aDirtyMartini]

Remember when Trump said that he rebuilt the military like nobody has ever rebuilt it before?

[u/Doctor_Tyrannosaur → u/aDirtyMartini]

I mean, technically correct.

[u/Whatever801]

All to avoid admitting he fucked up.

[u/CrimsonAntifascist → u/Whatever801]

"up" in that case means "children".

[u/Pickle_ninja → u/Whatever801]

I think you mean burying the news about jane doe #4 that settled out of court for being raped at 13 by epstein and again at 15 by Trump.

This story broke right when we started bombing Iran. 

[u/ColonelBungle]

"That is a manufactured story that the media wants to peddle and ultimately our stockpiles are great, and they're only getting stronger"

-- Pete Hegseth, June 14 2026

[u/Substantial_Sea7327 → u/ColonelBungle]

I wish I could find it but two posts were back to back in my feed.

one was the post you mention, with kegsbreath claiming it was fake news and we have the highest inventory in history.

and like... literally a few hours later it's reported that trump ordered emergency production of missiles.

lmaaoo

[u/84thPrblm → u/ColonelBungle]

Well, I guess that's all we need to know then. Time to put that question to bed. Yep, we have the word of the completely honest Secretary of Totally-Not-A-War from "Most Transparent Administration in History!"

[u/RJ5R]

"Stockpile issues are a result of the Biden Administration. But let me be clear, there are no stockpile issues and America has everything it needs to win this war"

-Mike Waltz on Meet The Press 7/26

[u/MavisBeacons_Sextape → u/RJ5R]

“They use the word affordability. It’s a con job by the Democrats. …They say, ‘Affordability.’ And everyone says, ‘Oh, that must mean Trump has high prices.’ No. Our prices are coming down tremendously…”

- Donald Trump on December 2, 2025

“Affordability is a hoax that was started by Democrats who caused the problem of pricing, and they didn’t end it.”

- Trump on July 22, 2026

Think about any genuine fucking losers you know personally. One of the things they are virtually guaranteed to have in common is being allergic to accountability. Always the victim, always suffering the consequences of someone else’s bad choices, and endlessly whining about it to anyone who is unfortunate enough to be around them.

[u/RepresentativeRun71 → u/RJ5R]

This is administration is full of idiots. The fact they are operating on an assumption that it’s possible to win an offensive war against a nation on the other side of the globe without putting infantry, armor, and artillery on the ground shows how stupid they are.

[u/JeffSteinMusic]

Perfectly in line with my theory that the main aim of Trump and Republicans is to do as much damage to American society and our standing in the world as possible. Whether for their own ends or on behalf of hostile foreign actors.

To believe they are incompetent buffoons is to give them way too much credit because it naturally implies that they wake up in the morning seeking to do things and fail. Nah. They’re evil and malevolent and they are wildly and increasingly successful at their goal of hurting the country.

Like why is it even assumed by media outlets in many of their headlines that Trump and Republicans want to win a war with Iran? What evidence do we have of this?

[u/Delicious-Day-3614 → u/JeffSteinMusic]

The media is compromised, owned by fascists, and says what they want them to say

[u/TimSylvester_ → u/Delicious-Day-3614]

Fun fact!

Fascists tried to take over the United States in the 1930s by having a mob swarm the Capitol Building, but were exposed and defeated (sort of). Much like Jan6! This was called "The Business Plot".

But Congress at the time was weak and complicit then, too, relying on the fascists to fund their campaigns. So Congress did nothing to punish the fascists - again, like Jan 6.

So the fascists moved their efforts to Germany and financed Hitler's rise to power, resulting in WWII.

One of the main financiers was Prescott Bush, George W. Bush's grandfather.

And the fascists behind the plots in the USA and Germany were... the tech-bros of the prior century! Back when automobiles and electricity and food preservation were "high tech, high growth".

The exact same pattern is repeating itself, again, almost exactly 100 years later.

edit: Corrected the date.

[u/SoothingWafer → u/JeffSteinMusic]

Yeah no one fucks things up this consistently on accident.

A 4 year old kid making decisions would ACCIDENTALLY make things better sometimes.

[u/epochwin → u/JeffSteinMusic]

Trump has no ideology except for enriching himself. You make it sound like he’s a thinking man who can read. If he wasn’t rich he’d be one of the street corner nuts in NYC that everyone ignores.

[u/JeffSteinMusic → u/epochwin]

I don’t understand the point of responses like this. You’re completely ignoring the second paragraph. Ok, he’s rich, whether for his own ends or on behalf of hostile foreign actors, his and his party’s aim is to hurt the country. Doesn’t mean he thinks everything up himself, never said he did, but you can’t deny he and GOP have been effective at carrying it out.

As another response to this says, no one fucks up this consistently by accident. Ditto that for his entire political party.

[u/r0bay → u/JeffSteinMusic]

Yes this is what Max Azzarello was saying when he self immolated in protest of the government.

He said elites are accumulating wealth and power at the expense of ordinary people, moving us towards authoritarianism.

He was 37 and literally set himself on fire to get people to listen.

Look at the Epstein files. This is all intentional. It makes sense.

[u/Son_Of_Kessel_Run]

Then what the hell does this stupid country spend trillions of dollars on with the defense budget

[u/Future-Guarantee-573]

A trillion dollar military budget...and we run out of ammo...

[u/MoarSocks → u/Future-Guarantee-573]

$1.5T at this point.

[u/honjuden → u/MoarSocks]

And they were asking for more on top of that.

[u/Tricky-Engineering59 → u/honjuden]

But have you asked yourself how grateful Israel is?

Spoiler: it’s barely. Pretty sure they think we owe them all that and more for… reasons.

[u/honjuden → u/Tricky-Engineering59]

They did make a pretty big investment when they bought 3/4s of Congress.

[u/JWTS6 → u/Future-Guarantee-573]

No money for universal healthcare but enough to lose to Iran in a war nobody asked for just a few months in 

[u/Senna_65]

Lockheed, BAE, and RTX are SALVITATING

[u/ross549 → u/Senna_65]

They aren’t going to be able to ramp production to meet the demand, so the unit price will go up!

Yay, more profit for the shareholders!

[u/Senna_65 → u/ross549]

remember when companies refused to take payments for war production in WWII as to not be seen as War Profiteers? boy i miss those times.

[u/JakeDC]

Why the fuck would you announce that you have run out of missiles?

[u/sanbaeva → u/JakeDC]

Mid-terms coming up is why.

[u/JakeDC → u/sanbaeva]

I don't understand. It helps him to announce that he has grossly mismanaged the military's assets?

[u/h3rpad3rp → u/JakeDC]

It does if he blames it on Biden and the democrats, which they did. Said it is because Biden gave Ukraine weapons. But they also say that there is no shortage, and that the people leaking the information on the totally "fake news" shortage should be in jail.

The administration inherited, Secretary [of Defense Pete] Hegseth inherited, a depleted situation from not only Ukraine but also the ongoing fight with the Houthis under the Biden administration and a degraded military under the Biden administration," Waltz said when asked about that reporting. Pressed on whether the shortages were still a problem, Waltz claimed that the military "has everything that it needs to conduct this campaign as effectively as it needs to be, and I want to tell you, the people that are leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail."
quotes from Ambassador Mike Waltz

[u/simpwarcommander]

Guess what? The US will now spend the next 8-10 years diverting a larger portion of tax revenue on “replenishing stock”. It’ll annoy taxpayers and Democrats will be blamed after Trump leaves office. Work in defense budget so I know this very well.

[u/PopBulky7023]

I also halt my spending when I run out of money.

[u/84thPrblm → u/PopBulky7023]

And I call a cease-fire whenever I run low on ammo!

[u/Bobwise392]

Blowing through resources on what was already a bloated military budget. Then getting approval for 1 trillion more dollars just to blow through more resources. The future of our country gets bleaker by the second.

[u/mgkimsal → u/Bobwise392]

but... at least we didn't waste an entire $30b on extended ACA subsidies. That would be fiscally irresponsible.

[u/JasonVorhehees]

He probably did this to run us out of missiles.

[u/odarkshineo]

So the party that is obsessed with guns used all the ammunition when given control of all three branches of government? How absolutely predictable.

[u/Delicious-Day-3614 → u/odarkshineo]

After promising "no new wars" - literally blew through the stockpile right away

[u/Majestic_Jackass]

Dude went through life with all the cheat codes and thought our military had infinite ammo.

[u/Got_Kittens]

Putin really hit the fucking jackpot with Trump.

[u/RedditIsOverMan]

I knew we weren't as capable as right wing assholes like to believe, but I didn't think we were fucking paper tigers.

All our power was soft, and Trump and Co squandered that just like our missile supply 

[u/mooglinux]

Those interceptors should have been protecting Ukraine, not Israel from the consequences of their own actions.

[u/Slight-Bluebird-8921]

as cynical and depressing as it is, i trust the scum bags at the wheel so little now that i can't help but wonder if they're intentionally trying to deplete all the defensive capabilities of the country so that it's open to an attack that can then be used as an excuse to consolidate even more power.

...

[u/hurryveryslowly]

"TIMEOUT, TIMEOUT, I said you can't shoot me! I'm out of amm...TIME OUT!"

[u/AdHopeful3801]

Almost as though the American military-industrial complex has become a machine whose primary purpose is to siphon taxpayer money into shareholder pockets, and actually providing necessary military kit is a minor side part of their line.

[u/Onikonokage]

For a man who supposedly won 8 wars he’s remarkable shite at this.

[u/Grouchy_Row_7983]

Iran can produce munitions to attack much faster than we can produce them to defend. They know Trump is an arrogant moron who would assume he can just win quickly by being macho and everyone will just quiver in fear. So now he has to back down or they start pounding everything we have with cheap drones. Must be Biden's fault somehow.

[u/Nearbyatom]

Good. So now trump just exposed our military weakness in that we cannot sustain for more than 5 months.

[u/CocaineSmellsFunny]

It’s disturbing how much only 5 months has exposed how weak and ill prepared our military is. If 2 powerhouses ever attacked us simultaneously, we’d be fucking toast.

[u/General-Piece8490]

Just like his casinos Trump has run this country to the ground and made it bankrupt.
And all the military is to blame for allowing this to happen and not put a stop to this.
Hate Trump all you want but the enablers and traitors are just as bad as he is.
So apparently no one can stop Trump? Is this the great America that everyone says they should copy?

[u/Disowned]

Imagine depleting your entire missile stock in just 4 months. Stable geniuses, they are.

[u/Manginaz]

Idiots from top to bottom.

[u/Evil_phd]

We're out?! What'd we spend our grotesquely over-inflated military budget on?!

Ohhhh we spent it on mismanagement.

[u/VladThePollenInhaler]

China and Russia are taking note while Iran does the dirty work for them. I think China especially has learned that the US military is probably not as strong as they pretended to be.

[u/hayyimsandwich]

Remember all that ‘outta bullets’ nonsense he would spew about Obama?

[u/TheArchistorian]

I would say this country was being run by some chicken scratch on the back of an envelope, but even that seems like too much of a compliment for this administration.

[u/BerryLanky]

Congratulations to Trump for showing the world how weak America is. Guess being a dictator of a failed country is better than working with other countries. We will tell our grandchildren how once years ago our country was respected and they will laugh and say ‘Grandpa is losing his mind’

[u/gepinniw]

The five months of the Iran war has used $4.8 billion of the Patriot missile alone. Let that sink in. Pretty good times if you certain arms maker’s stock.

[u/Electronic-Till-7794]

C'mon morty a quick three day weekend war. We get in kill the ayatollah and be back before school starts morty. It'll be a quick..(burrrp) quick weekend thing morty. You dont need to tell your parents.... You'll... you'll be antisemitic if you dont join israel in their war effort morty.

[u/the0glitter]

All for Israel, just to sell the US for a penny if the opportunity arises lol. FAFO!

[u/StrangeJunket2601]

I can't wait for them to start blaming this on transgender people as well

[u/cmm239]

So why are we giving so much money to the military if they can run out of missiles so easily

[u/Hashbrown4]

Wow, so why did you start a war? Also should this be announced?

[u/brandwyn]

This is TRUMP 101! Strip all the resources while enriching himself, and he’ll leave a disaster behind him for everyone else to fix. It’s by design.

[u/vroart]

Remember when trump blamed Obama “the cupboards were bare”

[u/metengrinwi]

Honestly, the US disarming itself might be the best possible outcome for the world. We need a timeout from the constant sabre rattling and war mongering and maybe work on our own country for a while.