America’s homeland has become threatened by changes that have developed beyond its shores.
The cost, production time, and efficacy of American military technology has shifted the balance of its military might to hostile nations.
- A U.S. Patriot interceptor missile costs $4 million per shot versus $2,000–$4,000 for some Ukrainian interceptor drones.
- Two-thirds of the U.S. Patriot missile inventory has been used up in the Iran war,
- Its interceptor missiles it uses to shoot down Iranian missiles have been consumed at a pace the U.S probably hasn’t budgeted for.
- Given the time of production for U.S. missiles, they will probably arrive too late and in amounts to small to continue the conflict with Iran whose drones can be produced in mass in a fraction of the time it takes the United States.
The populations of our enemies are more willing to endure suffering without adverse political consequences than American voters are. Russians will cheer Putin on for new invasions. His ratings rose to 84 percent during his second war in Chechnya and to 88 percent after he annexed Crimea, which gave birth to the “Crimean consensus” holding that Russians are willing to endure hardship to recreate a Russian-led Eurasian empire.
Germany agreed to buy a massive amount of gas from a new pipeline that will provide Russia with leverage over Europe’s energy security.
The U.S. has become gullible about Putin’s good will towards America. Bush told the press that he looked Putin in the eye and saw his soul, and that he can be trusted.
Our enemies have lost fear and respect for America’s military strategies.
- Our chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan exposed careless military planning and preparations. The U.S. should have realized that a withdrawal would be inevitable long ago, and should have avoided or planned for it.
- Pete Hegseth has decided to phase out an Army drone unit, seemingly because it was championed by generals he didn’t like.
- The Biden administration’s weak response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine fomented doubt about America’s tolerance of Russian or Chinese aggression. Biden should have reacted immediately upon Putin’s deployment of troops along Ukraine’s border and shouldn’t have waited until the invasion to arm Ukraine or coordinate with NATO to deploy troops in Ukraine, which could have avoided the invasion completely.
Our enemies are cooperating with each other to ready more military strength against the United States.
- Putin’s “no limits” partnership with China gave him confidence he could vanquish Ukraine,
- Russia is helping North Korea modernize its armed forces, and Kim Jong Un reciprocated by sending millions of artillery rounds to Russia and thousands of troops to fight against Ukraine.
- China is supplying Russia with most of the electronic components used in its drones and other military hardware.
- Russia has given Iran critical targeting intelligence to strike U.S. bases and ships in the Middle East.
- In the event of a Chinese attack on Taiwan, Russia’s powerful Pacific submarine fleet is available to help China
- China has already ordered its armed forces to be ready to seize Taiwan by 2027.
- A senior Biden national security official, evaluating our chances in a war with China uttered “every trick we had up our sleeve, the Chinese had redundancy after redundancy.”
- The travails of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln are a national disgrace and have called attention to the small size of the fleet and a depleted industrial base that struggles to build and maintain ships.
- Trump’s alienation of U.S. allies has cast doubt on their willingness to come to the United States aid in the event of a conflict.
Although this ominous momentum has built over many administrations, it is the current Trump administration’s reckless, haphazard and planless war that has depleted our military materiel, that turned fear of our military into near entertainment by its slapstick military operation, and its unprecedented rudeness and betrayal of our allies that lost their willingness to help us.
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