Why would anyone admit this
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.
The sources interviewed for this story spoke on the condition of anonymity.
You can count the number made and used reasonably accurately, it’s not a secret for large missiles. They’re inherently easier to see.
After a fifth of whiskey you admit everything.
I JUST got this… lol @ hegseth
Maybe it’s a ruse and counter intelligence.
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.
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!
