Soaring US munitions demand strains support for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan

The military is having difficulty maintaining adequate munitions inventory levels as wars erupt in the Middle East, Europe and possibly the Pacific.

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Regularly scheduled reminder that supplying weapons to Taiwan is illegal under US domestic law, as we recognize Taiwan as a province of China
- Back in my day, they'd at least have the decency to launder taxpayer money into dark money by smuggling heroin from Afghanistan into inner cities, and then they'd use it to fund illegitimate governments.
  
  They still do that. It’s just now the CIA is just letting the cartels into the US without much in return.
  
  Exaaaaactly. What happened to subtlety?
- When did US respect any other country?
  
  In the other hand, I can list how many times US planned and actually achieve a coup in other countries.
  
  I can list how many times US planned and actually achieve a coup in other countries.
  
  From memory? Cause that would be impressive
oh no, my profitable grift-based defense contracting scheme can't actually produce anything
- Especially when somebody keeps burning the factories down 🤔
- ...so you must pour even more money into it if you want to have bullets enough to stave off the Asiatic hordes.

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