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rurpyesterday at 11:39 PM1 replyview on HN

Reports are that the US has exhausted certain key capabilities such as high end missiles and interceptors. We've likely used more interceptors in a month against a fourth rate power than Ukraine has in their entire war against Russia. That's extremely damning and irresponsible from a strategic perspective.

Exhausting key functionality like that will absolutely lead to major losses of things like manpower and ships against a near-peer adversary.


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hedoratoday at 5:12 AM

We were burning a year worth of global patriot manufacturing capacity every day at the beginning of the war. Math says we slowed down and are also running out.