Anyone who has spent more than a minute looking at the issue of wartime logistics would know that the usage rate of higher-grade weapons in a war is a lot higher than the planners dare tell their political bosses.
And if you don't think that the Chinese are looking at this and calculating when they should push the go-button for Taiwan, you might want to reconsider.
No chance that the Orange Demented Billionaire-in-Chief will revoke his tax cuts. No, the cost of buying replacement weapons will fall where it always does: On the poor and the working people. Social service cuts, shittiner schools, decaying roads, lousier health care, that'll be the price for Trump's Big Beautiful War.
And don't forget this:
I suggested to my wife the other day that the Iran War opens the way for Xi to mess with Trump. Sending a small flotilla toward Taiwan would result in an epidemic of soiled undies at Fort Fumble.
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It was up 75 cents a gallon over its low at the turn of the year.
Now, 4 days later, it's at $1 a gallon over that low
https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/rbob-gasoline?op=1
The MAGA morons are cheering on Hesgeth, but come another (or multiple) 9/11s and gas prices heading to $4 or $5....they'll be screaming butthurt...when it's shit they are complicit in setting in motion.
I heard this on a radio talk show longer ago than I'd like to admit: "Amateurs talk about strategy and tactics. Professionals talk about logistics."
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