NYT: US weapons stockpiles depleted by Iran war
Iran issues extensive list of demands to reopen Hormuz: -End US blockade -US forces out of area -End sanctions -Unconditionally release all frozen Iranian assets -Pay war reparations Even as maximal position to be negotiated down, Iran being in this position highlights how badly Trump screwed up.
Poocharé42Furthermore he should pay war reparations out of his personal account. I mean nobody in this country asked him to start this war, and we paid for the damn thing.
Mrs Joe30Seems like Obama got a better deal, but that’s just me… 🤣
Thomas Boyd21The cherry on the top of this shit cake would have been if they had demanded Hagseth be shipped to Tehran for trial as a war criminal...
wings2water.bsky.social15The fact that he hasn't mouthed off about it on Truth Social points to his lack of options.
Anthony Corona11Tbf he did promise unconditional surrender
Unchosen10They've got Trump by the balls and have no reason to let go until after the midterms.
#StupidSuez3251. Unambiguously good 2. As part of a broader regional agreement, great. 3. As part of a broader regional agreement, great. 4. Unambiguously good 5. Unambiguously good
CavsKermit 4The thing is Iran can't really force Trump's hand on any of this. The U.S. can engage in a modified blockade where they allow oil tankers through to Asia, after inspection, wait until the midterms, and then close the strait again.
Pam Spaulding4Trump broke it — now he owns it. Iran's demands, as it nears a deal w/Oman, shows just how badly he's lost control in his war of choice. 🧾 www.cnn.com/2026/08/08/w... And: 🧾 Trump’s top general ‘looking for an off-ramp’ from Iran war as US military options remain limited www.cnn.com/2026/08/07/p...
Majestic Twelve4The Art of the Deal
Dag.4They are begging for a deal we were told. With these terms who could blame them?
Chrononaut3The US military did its job. But Trump can't close the deal despite the strong position that gave him. Because he has no plan beyond bombing Iran and insisting it must capitulate. He's a whiny bully, not a fighter.
Loather2trump looked at the last few decades of fragile relations with Iran and was like why don’t we just blow them up, and I guess nobody told him why
Latté Liberal💫2Iran Hormuz demands tells you all you need to know: 1. Trump lost this war every month 2. Hegseth is DEI 3. Rubio can’t handle “one” job 4. Vance will never be President
“Since the collapse of munitions stockpiles, it was revealed that the Pentagon’s policy chief Elbridge Colby has been tasked with drafting a new strategy that emphasises the use of tactical nuclear weapons in any war with China or Russia.”
Old Hobbit🐸22An interesting approach as China and Russia also have these, unlike the conventional missile asymmetry with Iran and more traditional enemies.
Alexander Otte21Everyday you think it could not get more dystopian, the US happen.
BrianB15Oh, yeah...that'll do the job. Good grief, what morons.
Elthampug 🇬🇧🇺🇦8As per Putin’s alco-dog Medvedev, nuke them all!!! Tbh, I’m pretty shocked how quick the US burned through its kit.
bxbx4.bsky.social7Don't we look like fools starting a war with only nukes as a Plan B
Pervis Purves (Vote Binface)6Fucking hell (weary, not alarmed).
The Beethoven Group18The idiots are in charge of the circus. Colby couldn't beat a NAFO fella; how is he going to draft a strategy? The real question is why did they waste our arsenal on a war no American wanted? Against an adversary we knew we didn't have enough munitions for.
Pile Of Garbage17Tactical nuclear weapons do not exist. Military planners and strategists want you to think that using low-yield nuclear devices on the battlefield won't result in instant escalation but they absolutely fucking will. They already know this as they spent millions gaming it out during the Cold War.
Janne M. Korhonen17USA's convergence with the Russian system proceeds apace
Really Sean Smith13If it makes you feel better, Strategy Cheese possibly has less effect on military policy than a book I wrote that has a story about my grandmother mistaking me for being gay.
Pile Of Garbage7The last two decades of US air defence procurement has been a complete waste. They continually aimed for defence against the most sophisticated threats resulting in interceptors costing $4.2M each. And now they are being stripped apart by a simple raid. defencetalks.com/us-patriot-m...
Adam J Schmidt6I hope they don't try to resurrect the Davey Crockett 😳 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Cr...
bob barker 🍸6putting that in a policy document then allows china and russia to think more luridly. fuckin strategy cheese
czech hunter biden4I think if the president uses a nuclear weapon they should be [redacted] immediately by the secret service. I believe this for Truman too
Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him)4The thing about corruption is - it encourages more corruption, and pretty soon everything is corroded by that corruption.
Nick Kodama2Every administration does a review of US nuclear strategy. This time they're doing a "mini review" instead of a full NPR. We've known this since last year.
Strategic Defeat Update: "It could take more than 2 years for the US to replenish the more than 1,500 Patriot interceptor missiles that have been used in the Iran war. "The current inventory of those missiles is fewer than 1,700." Must-read/gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/u...
web_rant13Trump providing $3 billion more to Lockheed Martin to ramp up production of Patriot missiles. Lockheed alone has received more than $43.8 billion in new or expanded contracts in Trump's second term after they donated to his campaign, inauguration, ballroom, and helipad. bsky.app/profile/bgru...
Common Sense8Didn’t the president at some point recently say that we’ve built the military up better than it’s ever been before? I seem to remember that being said.
TekGuy6306Trump is intentionally leaving a mess for the next administration. Gutted agencies, depleted resources, economic disaster and despised world wide.
dls100.bsky.social5Hegsdeath was so determined to have a holy war. He shot the holy wad instead.
Stork3I think there's something to be said for destroying military capabilities qualifying as "taking up arms against the country."
ballssaidthequeen.bsky.social3It’s a stupid war, Trump totally fucked up but why are we making this information public? Isn’t this putting the US in danger?
Bill Grueskin122It gets worse: Steve Feinberg, the Pentagon official thrown under the bus by Hegseth a few days ago, is pleading — yes, pleading — with defense contractors to ramp up production Gift link: wapo.st/4q2tNZw
Murshed Zaheed41Time is a flat circle, usual far-right wing projection etc www.washingtonpost.com/politics/201...
web_rant13Trump providing $3 billion more to Lockheed Martin to ramp up production of Patriot missiles. Lockheed alone has received more than $43.8 billion in new or expanded contracts in Trump's second term after they donated to his campaign, inauguration, ballroom, and helipad. bsky.app/profile/bgru...
Yayger9Everything he's done seems designed to weaken our country, to tear it down, make it a pariah, make it vulnerable. All while profiting off every treasonous move. The scale of the betrayal and treason is staggering and nearly impossible to comprehend.
Nicholas Bauer PhD6Not trying to remove Trump ASAP is going to look real fucking stupid.
Common Sense2And just wait until the rest of the nation realizes the current state of the strategic petroleum reserve….
The Iran War is not just a defeat to Iran - it weakens us relative to Russia (and more consequently) China
Dave Robinson10If only someone could have predicted this..
Hasn’t Russia also depleted its stockpiles and soldiers with its stalemate in Ukraine? So it’s just China that comes out on top.
The Wraith X1but there's absolutely no reason why Israel/USA attacked Iran over a nuclear weapon development when both Israel/USA already have untold numbers of nuclear weapons.
Patrick1The real reason we went on that little excursion all along. (and also the intent behind a great many of the policy decisions enacted since he came back into power)
Yet again, if our adversaries had actually installed a puppet president they couldn’t have done better. The U.S. Is Burning Through Weapons in Iran. Russia and China Are Taking Note. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/u...
Noriks 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 🐦⬛ 🐈⬛ ♎️2It wouldn’t be so bad for the world if the USA became Chinese. They had a good run as a pseudo democracy. Let China steer the ship for a few centuries. Wouldn’t be any worse probably. Might even be better. Mandarin might even be fun to learn
thepissedoldlady.bsky.social2Ask yourself: If someone wanted to weaken our country and leave us defenseless, would they be doing anything different?
We’re going to lose Taiwan and Poland thanks to the orange idiot. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/u...
Mark von Wahlde6Russia is an economic trash bin. It poses no near-term threat to Poland. I think the Europeans in NATO would hold together if Putin moved on the Baltics. Taiwan, though....
CaffeineIsLife3Poland isn't going anywhere. They're a NATO country and Putin might have enough nerve to try sending random drones or cyber attacks, but it'd be quite different if he tried to INVADE there and take control.
Alexander Dent2Like the good Chinese-Russian asset he is
Jordan Sazant2When we lose Taiwan, we lose our economy. Tech is entirely reliant on TMSC. This will be much greater than just a military disaster
rationalpear.bsky.social1i don’t think we have to worry abt poland or tawain. poland has been preparing for this war for 30yrs. it now has the largest military in europe. the main lesson from iran is smaller powers have the advantage in modern warfare. i worry most abt the baltics.
Mark von Wahlde1Reminiscent of the "we lost China" dialog of the Right Wing in the 1950s.
The U.S. Is Burning Through Weapons in Iran. Russia and China Are Taking Note. The Iran war has depleted U.S. weapons stockpiles, resulting in a significant erosion of firepower. A more drawn-out Iran conflict benefits Moscow and Beijing, some analysts say. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/u...
Eric Lipton NYT35By Anton Troianovski, Jonathan Swan, Eric Schmitt and Julian E. Barnes Reporting from Washington “It’s impossible for that not to have a significant effect on the decision calculus of Russia and China,” said Mr. Karako, who has been tracking U.S. weapons stockpiles.
Jennifer2how many did they use to blow up fishing vessels off Venezuela? the sheer stupidity of ALL of this when we had the JCPOA which was not good enough for Pedolf so he just tore it up - tore up the arrangement so that Bibi could have an excuse to bomb them thieving criminal idiots
GenXguy1Some say?? Whiskey Pete has got to clear this level in Call of Duty to get a new badge…then into China…
John Kennedy1And is devastating to Ukraine! Good guys lose. Bad guys win. Makes you wonder whose side Trump is on???
Not only did Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth lose the Iran War, but they blew our collective missile wad in the process. And what do we have to show for it? Billions wasted, a weakened U.S. military, dead Iranian schoolgirls, and Iran in control of the Strait of Hormuz. abcnews.com/Politics/cru...
TrumpsTaxes10Nothing like begging the defense industry for missiles because you wasted them all to lose a war. bsky.app/profile/wash...
samshell2.bsky.social2Putin could not do a better “job” of destroying & weakening every facet of our national security & our country than his “friend” Trump & his crime syndicate.
It takes 2y to produce 1 Patriot interceptor missile + 2.5y to produce its solid rocket motor, and the supply chains of the components must be secured. It's not a new problem but the Iran war made it worse. This is the best article I've read on the subject. We wouldn't be able to win a war w China.
Rose Mason11For those of you who don't follow the great military/war historian Phillips O'Brien, here is his 4-minute interview w Mary Louise Kelly on 8/7/26. That she was stunned by his comment about China shows how far behind the American news media are in understanding the truth. www.npr.org/2026/08/07/n...
Marie-Fleur - I stand with Zelensky4I must say it kind of disturbs me when ppl say "Iran war made it worse" or something similar (I saw it in French-speaking media online too) Someone started that ...ing war. He made it worse, not Iran
what could go wrong? 🙅♂️
thepissedoldlady.bsky.social1And I would bet my last dollar it is all intentional to help Putin.
