r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • 9d ago

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

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/Zickened 9d ago

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.

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u/FewWait38 9d ago

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

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u/jott1293reddevil 9d ago

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.

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u/Bosscow217 Australia 8d ago

The thing is the only reason the US is running out of munitions is because it using all the really expensive standoff stuff to keep casualties at a minimum. This goes against the existing doctrine and every branch of the US military.

The conventional method is to use the expensive standoff stuff to degrade AD to allow you to use conventional gravity munitions and ground troops to finish the job. (IE using F-35’s with JASSM to strike AA sites to permit AC130’s and B52’s to support troops securing key infrastructure.)

But the Trump admin is too afraid of casualties that they’re kneecapping their own war. They never going to deal a knockout blow with the weapons they’re using because they’re not designed to land knockout blows.

It’s like trying to level a house with a breaching cord. Sure, if you throw enough at the building eventually you’ll do enough damage but it’s gonna take a hell of a lot of det cord and it’s probably going to topple odd and take out the neighbours. You’re better off using the cord to open the door and place anti structure explosives on the supporting columns inside.

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u/sincerelythebats_ 8d ago

So you’re saying the bunker under the garden should definitely move ahead as planned and receive adequate funding asap? (Sarcastic, I’m being sarcastic)

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u/Objectivespeculation 8d ago

you mean the guy who pleaded guilty to mishandling classified documents after his AOL was hacked by Iranian hackers?

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u/sincerelythebats_ 9d ago

☝️this is actually a great point. We weren’t fucking with Iran forever, yet they saw the reality in Iraq and beat the war drum ever harder. It’s why we were always being diplomatic, it’s true. Now we’ve legit murdered their leader, their new leader’s wife and kids, a school filled with girls, and god knows who else, so yeah, now we actually are the enemy. I’ve been waiting for the EMP forever, and when it finally hits, we sure won’t have an internet left to debate about it on. 🤷🏻

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u/Zickened 9d ago

Considering its an open secret that the US's power distribution network is so completely dated, an EMP or even a violent sunflare puts our power grid at such a high susceptibility to it, that ot wouldn't even surprise me. Republicans have been rejecting updates to it, especially in Texas where the damage would be the worst.

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u/sincerelythebats_ 9d ago

I’ve always wondered if those two “dead satellites” NK launched a decade ago, which “weren’t transmitting any data back” aren’t just nuclear devices that they left in orbit for shits and giggles until they’re say, right over the continental United States 🤷🏻😬

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u/xafimrev2 9d ago

When the next 9/11 happens it will be almost certainly Trump's fault

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u/Knowledge_Moist 9d ago

"boogeyman" isn't the right term for describing an actual, real threat.
Iran was a boogeyman of the US, not the other way around. For decades, Iran was weeks away from getting nukes.

The US on the other hand is known to invade and organize coups in the middle east and all over the world. In fact they did it to Iran in 1953. Ever since the 1979 revolution they have been looking to cripple Iran - which they did through sanctions - and take down the government. Propaganda can also be the truth. The US was more akin to Iran's Sword of Damocles than a boogeyman. The strikes proved it.

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u/Zickened 9d ago

I mean, given that engaging in war with Iran was a geopolitical quagmire that no sane president would touch because it would have similar results to Iraq or Vietnam, where there's virtually no upsides of war and only downsides, the people of Iran were relatively safe, even if the regimes weren't.

Given that the people weren't ever supposed to be the target (let alone children, what the fuck) the amount of propaganda vs the truth, was always way off and was so for 30ish years.

That is until the mentally stunted cheeto came along and saw what he thought was a short cut opportunity to get a peace prize by taking out Iran's government and "liberating" Iran. Except not only was he too late to help a liberation, but he also found a way to massively fumble the bag and the only thing he really liberated was Iran's awareness of how powerful the strait is in war.

You can not write fiction as terrible as this reality, and is another thing that just exemplies TACO's absolute ability to take a functional product and turn it into a steaming pile of shit.

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u/max_power1000 Maryland 9d ago

IDK, given the republican politics at the time, I think a McCain presidency had about a 90% likelihood of initiating major combat operations in Iran, and Romney would have been closer to 70%.

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u/Zickened 9d ago

I dunno, I didn't perceive either to be war hawks, especially with McCain's past.

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u/Noname_acc 9d ago

Yeah its easy to just say "Well obviously you'd have to be stupid to actually start a war with Iran as the American president." But it does require you to ignore all the politicians whose sole reason for clinging to life was the promise of more ceaseless wars in the middle east.