Why would anyone admit this
After a fifth of whiskey you admit everything.
I JUST got this… lol @ hegseth
You can count the number made and used reasonably accurately, it’s not a secret for large missiles. They’re inherently easier to see.
these ‘sources’ might be long serving people from the military frustrated with the new leadership.
there is still a few people from before the trump administration in the higher up military aparatus not yet fired and replaced by some cousin or something who still have contacts to established journalist like this.
I understand they might be frustrated, but why would you say that we dont have long range precision missiles to hit you with if you attacked the US right now?
Because any enemy would have a semi accurate estimate of how many missiles we would have. When you’ve blown past the amount of missiles you could possibly store in all your warehouses on a given base physics is ratting you out.
If your enemy knows, but your own public does not… I mean at some point you have to say something.
maybe to discourage the public from being pro war because it wouldn’t be a good idea
That doesn’t mean they’re defenseless. This is far from the only long range missiles they have.
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Yeah, there’s just no way this could be true, and the internet is considered another theater of war. I wouldn’t take any reports like this at face value.
Backward propaganda?
“The US is so weak right now! We just totally botched this conflict! We haven’t accomplished anything and now we’re out of munitions… oh man what a mess!”
What would be the point of saying that deliberately?
Admittedly, I don’t know what the reason is, but a more plausible explanation to me would be if it’s simply not the kind of thing they can hide.
“So this justifies our need for more military spending and joining together with Israel’s military”
Just spit balling, but I could see this as a reason for the US to be leaking this info intentionally.
Alright, yeah that makes some sense. Heh, I just needed a more logical motive.
What would be the point of saying that deliberately?
Propaganda may serve other purposes than politically ones.
The military industrial complex for example will be quite happy when people believe that the US really needs to increase their military spending.
Not that I believe anything the government says anymore, but a shitty reading of Sun Tzu is “pretend to be weak when you are strong, pretend to be strong when you are weak.”
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I had a propaganda at your mum lol
To drum up a call for more money.
Maybe it’s a ruse and counter intelligence.
The sources interviewed for this story spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Ok. So we’d probably best not tell anyone then. That could be interesting information to, you know, enemies and stuff.
Good. Maybe they will stop killing people now?
Nope.
Cluster bombs, white phosphor, maybe a few “tactical” nukes.
All out of precision means they don’t have to answer about their aim when the hospitals and schools start blowing up.
Bingo. This is the reason, and it’s fairly transparent imo.
They’re laying down the pathetically depressing (in all connotations) path to wring their hands and start to justify atrocities with the economy (uh, even further, that is):
“We had to defend ourselves and the Iranians forced our hands, it would have cost too much to fabricate new precision munitions and risked Jim-Bob’s farm, hell, all of our livelihoods”.
(Jim-Bob here being a “poor farmer” plant in the discourse to move Middle America. In reality, Jim-Bob is in Wisconsin two weeks out of the year, lives in a NY penthouse, and most of his money doesn’t come from his multi-state AG operation but from the kickbacks and money laundering of subsidies).
I guess that’s one way to adapt your forces to the incoming subservience of the puppets-turned-would-be-puppeteers. Gotta have the Iowa cornfield boys used to the ways of 3000 year old promises.
They can pivot the excuses, blame the companies that make them for being slow in building more. “We had to use something, all we had left were nukes. Not OUR fault.”
Good to know. Share that info. Invite an attack on U.S. soil. Use that event to try and suspend elections. Which would be totally unconstitutional because elections happen at the state level, but look at all the amazing unconstitutional things this administration has done already!
