[SilverElfin]

They used up a lot of the remaining tomahawk inventory apparently. These operations, done without congressional approval, are wasting literal billions. Repositioning multiple carrier groups and spending lots of munitions isn’t cheap. And yet the administration thinks some alleged small scale Somalian fraud deserves all our attention.

[lumost]

If China was to attack Taiwan, now would be the time. The current world order is at least in part based around the notion of the US (and allies) having the military capacity to fight any plausible combination of foes at all times. That this military capacity was used in accordance to a set of rules with input from allies and partners made the system tolerable.

If the US lacks the munitions to fight all of these conflicts, and is unreliable to allies or foes leads to a high likelihood of conflict.

[tim-tday]

Pretty sure they’ll wait about 9 months. They have a schedule after all.

[koolala]

Would allies give the US munitions to stop that possible outcome?

[CyanLite2]

Fortunately, China just decided to fire most of their military leadership and replaced them with inexperienced, but loyal grunts.

[fma]

I think this is only true if the United States takes armaments from the Pacific theater.

[nebula8804]

There is so much BS on both sides of the aisle so it seems impossible to get a clear picture but didn't Iran prepare better than Venezuela in terms of deployment of Chinese radar and other security defenses? Seems like there has been no conversation whatsoever about Chinese defenses, were they bypassed again? If so, then China must be reassessing. (Again dont know whats real and whats fake anymore)

[rasz]

>used up a lot of the remaining tomahawk inventory apparently

4000 in stockpiles, they shot maybe couple hundred in one day. Could sustain for 2 weeks at this pace.