Once Dubya 2.0 strikes the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant and fails to destroy it, will he too zip into a flight suit, land on a carrier, and declare “Mission Accomplished” before the dust has even settled? Perhaps this time, the banner will read “Mission: Pending,” fluttering above a mountain that swallowed a 30,000-pound bunker buster without flinching. And if history rhymes, we may soon be treated to another round of performative triumph, complete with choreographed optics and a conveniently vague definition of success.
Some scripts never get rewritten. They just cast new leads.
This isn’t just about missile inventories. It’s about a superpower stretching its supply chains thin while picking fights on multiple fronts. As analyst Brian Berletic warned: “The US is unprepared for the scale of war it is provoking around the globe” (RAND might call it “Overextending America”—assuming they ever write the sequel). The numbers may look technical, but the pattern is strategic exhaustion. Below is the report—and my commentary on why shortfalls in interceptors are just a symptom of something far broader.
I read an article today about a woman reflecting on her father’s PTSD. Her family had the same rule as mine—if you needed to wake Dad, you did so from the doorway to prevent the risk of an accidental reaction triggered by a flashback. I wonder how many children of military veterans have lived with this unspoken understanding, shaped by their parents’ trauma.
While many believe that under the Trump administration the controversial National Endowment for Democracy (NED*) was defunded, dismantled, or otherwise dissolved, the reality is far less dramatic and far more dangerous.
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