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USA has nothing more than Money and resource. that is perfectly fine. Anyway American taxpayer will prever to stay hungry but keep feed the army
Now they will print more dollars to buy some more Tomahawks and the world will bet on that dollar again. When it does this shit (USA) will collapse fast.
It’s so silly. Those were made to be used ‘surgically’: to hit specific high value targets at extended range while minimising collateral damage. If you feel the need to use 850 of them, you’ve chosen the wrong weapon system: at that point, you should be flying B52’s over whatever you want to hit. Or turn Tehran into a glass parking lot.
who males the Tomahawk and are Trump's kids long that stock?
Raytheon (RTX Corp)
This is like when a noob uses a cheat code at the beginning of the game and still loses
Invincibility cheat and then walk off the edge of the map so it doesn’t matter 🤣
those are about 3 million each, in pre trump funds. Looks like tax paying Americans will all be emptying or wallets and cutting services to replace those now too. I hope Israel is happy with us and sends our politicians a tiny fraction of that amount in bribes.
Btw only 9000 tomahawk missiles have ever been produced in the 43 year lifespan of the tomahawk program, and at top speed we can produce 600 a year. We usually make up to 90 a year. We reportedly had between 3-4000 in our inventory.
This is what scares me in a true protracted war with China. Imagine their production capacity. Even if our weapons are better, does it make a difference if they can build them 10x faster at 90% the efficacy?
You only need a few nukes to defeat all missiles China could produce in their entire existence. Any direct hot conflict with possibility of either side's total defeat would turn into a nuclear one.
US army internal planning and table top runs show we run out of munitions for the high-high fight in days in a war with China.
It’s a documented and very real concern.
I always thought that was the point of nuclear bombs. You can attack me and you might even defeat me but it's gonna cost you. No need to have a lot of ammunition but a few that are very hurtful.
If you kill me ill kill you right back.
Oh yeah? We just built more nukes than you we cna kill you 5 times.
Kill me 5 times? Watch this. I can kill you 50 times now lol.
50 times? Hah! Pathetic! Watch how I have the capacity to kill everyone everywhere a hundred times over!
Shit. Better build better nukes so I can kill everyone a thousand times over.
The worst is this is the most intelligent form of life in the known universe. This might be peak.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a gun nut or at all pro war, but why do they produce multimillion dollar missiles consisting of metal, fuel and explosives for that much for a one-way use instead of using that money to prevent wars? Well, call me a sweet summer child.
Tomahawk missiles are meant to be used for high precision strikes, they're basically the missile equivalent of a 50. cal sniper loaded with AP-I rounds which is to say explosive but deadly if you want someone or something annihilated. Problem is they're using them like artillery or maybe a V-1 so of course it's gonna be fucking expensive for no reason, to go back to my previous analogy it's like using said sniper and ammo to hunt squirrels.
Are they doing this so they have an excuse not to help Taiwan next year?
If china get Taiwan the US is going into the stone age overnight. No president is trying to avoid this, both parties want to protect Taiwan.
Not after musk gets his super duper mega chip factory running.
And what does Krasnov's boss want?
Or yet another excuse of why they can't help there own citizens. "Universal health care? You know how much that would cost???"
Those could have been used against russia to defend Ukraine...
Right… that’s the concern here… dwindling supplies.
Imagine a world where the US ran out of bombs.
What did the US say at the end of the war? Iran out of bombs.
That really is the best opportunity for China to take Taiwan. Wait a little bit longer until stockpiles are empty and ground troops are deployed and then strike while the USA is occupied
Why would China bother?
China is about to become what America was: #1 country, #1 economy, with oil traded in their currency, with resources available across the globe.
China's investments in Trump are about to pay off huge.
Why fuck with a winning hand by invading a small island when they can just keep doing what they're doing, and let Taiwan make semiconductors for China, and collect all the benefits of being Top Dog?
Taiwan might be asking to join China to protect itself from perceived American aggression at this rate.
Already kinda is, it feels like.
I’m Canadian; most people here seemed extremely happy to see our PM in China making actual deals and opening up trade.
That's exactly why I am 99% sure that everything with Trump and the Republicans will eventually point back to China. That's who benefits from all the chaos, all the corruption.
Russia is a nice red herring, but China is using them and will discard them as soon as it is convenient.
This is exactly from a book of Sun Zu, sit back and watch your enemies fight with each other’s and you will win without shooting a single shot.
Do not interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake
China supposedly now has a full copy of the Epstein files too.
How could they have obtained this?