"Since the Iran war began in late February, the United States has burned through around 1,100 of its long-range stealth cruise missiles built for a war with China, close to the total number remaining in the U.S. stockpile. The military has fired off more than 1,000
Tomahawk cruise missiles, roughly 10 times the number it currently buys each year.
The Pentagon used more than 1,200
Patriot interceptor missiles in the war, at more than $4 million a pop, and more than 1,000 Precision Strike and
ATACMS ground-based missiles, leaving inventories worrisomely low, according to internal Defense Department estimates and congressional officials.
The Iran war has significantly drained much of the U.S. military’s global supply of munitions, and forced the Pentagon to rush bombs, missiles and other hardware to the Middle East from commands in Asia and Europe. The drawdowns have left these regional commands less ready to confront potential adversaries like Russia and China, and it has forced the United States to find ways to scale up production to address the depletions, Trump administration and congressional officials say."
So while we spend $$$ like it's going out of style, Russian oil revenues *double* month-to-month. Talk about a transfer of wealth few voters thought they were signing up for ...