The Pentagon has halted shipments of critical US Patriot air defence systems and other precision weapons to Ukraine after concern that US stockpiles are running too low, prompting alarm in Kyiv.
At the end of last week’s Nato summit, Donald Trump hinted that supplies of Patriot missile interceptors were running down because some had been supplied to Israel, though he suggested he would like to help Kyiv.
After a meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the US president acknowledged that Ukraine did “want to have the anti-missile systems, as they call the Patriots, and we’re going to see if we can make some available”.
But Trump added: “They’re very hard to get. We need them. We were supplying them to Israel,” implying that supporting Israel in its war with Iran – a priority for the Republican administration – had set back its willingness to help Kyiv.
Naturally people will blame Trump because he doesn’t really care about Ukraine, but this was inevitable when Israel started sucking up all of the USs military aid. Without a massive increase in industrial capacity to build even more weapons, eventually, the stockpiles were always going to run low.
If you truly believe our stockpiles are low, I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale.
We blame Trump because it wasn’t inevitable. He lied to Americans about Gaza. He tore up the nuclear agreement with Iran. A lack of weapons is entirely Trump’s fault.
“Biden I’m working constantly trying to get Israel to do a ceasefire” Constantly sends them weapons
Israel: “Joe Biden has never said the word ceasefire to us”.
Liberals: “Trump is so unique for lying to us about Israel! It’s totally not just a reflection of the systems flaws itself!”
There is a huge difference between Biden selling weapons to Israel and Trump bombing Iran.
Biden sending weapons to an outpost full of mass murderers who want to kill all nonwhites = biden is their boss and at fault for all their murders
Joe Biden would have bombed Iran too. You think he’s fine partaking in a genocide but draws the line at bombing Iran?
The MIC makes these decisions, the presidents role is to sell it to you.
Biden was VP for Obama when Iran signed the nuclear deal. He didn’t bomb Iran when he last president. He absolutely would not have bombed Iran.
Just like Biden didn’t deploy ICE as Gestapo.
GTFO with “both sides are the same.”
Lying to Americans about Gaza has been the bipartisan policy our entire lives lol
… although, yeah, him tearing up the nuclear deal in his first term and his Arab-Israeli normalization plan to unite Israel and the Gulf states against Iran actually might have set us on this course. The nuclear deal could have potentially brought Iran in-line with US interests in the region, and he blew that up. Normalization, meanwhile, was basically the reason for Operation Al-Aqsa Flood which started this phase of the Israeli genocide against Palestinians (to be clear, the genocide was ongoing before Oct 7th).
In the counter-factual, where Hilary won and the nuclear deal was maintained and Iran was brought in with the rest of the Gulf states in alliance against China, Israel probably would have been able to carry out its ethnic cleansing of Palestine without a war. Instead, thanks to Trump, Israel is going to destroy itself trying to wage war on all of its neighbors and will be broken against the Axis of Resistance.
Kamala lost because she wouldn’t lie!
She still lied. She openly refused to call it a genocide, she said Israel was “defending” itself, and she helped Biden sell the lie that they were working tirelessly for a ceasefire and a two state solution. That’s all lies too.
In what way?
She said she supported Israel. Meanwhile Trump was in battleground states telling Michigan Muslims he supported Gaza.
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/08/nx-s1-5183216/how-trump-was-able-to-win-support-from-many-muslim-voters-in-michigan
Nobody genuinely believed that Trump would support Gaza, even the article says he would bring “peace,” which as anyone knows would require the dissolution of the state of Israel and a full, secular, democratic Palestine. Harris lost because she campaigned to the right of Biden, who was already right-wing.
Muslims believed him and voted for him. That’s what the NPR article I linked was about.
Which, as I said, is because she didn’t lie.
Trump was not campaigning to the Left. A huge proportion of Deerborn voted for Jill Stein, not Trump. Some did, but nobody in any significant numbers thought Trump would be better for genocide.
Harris could have told the truth and not run a far-right campaign.
What all this illustrates is that the US lacks industrial capacity for maintaining its hegemony. They’ve run through their existing stocks over the past three years, and they’re unable to manufacture weapons at the rate they’re being consumed. As a result, they have to make hard choices regarding which proxies have more value to them.