Mood Inside Pentagon: Intense. Paranoid. Turns out the "Experts" --- were wrong.
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Source: Hal Turner
'Inside the Pentagon, and among some members of the Trump administration, there is deepening concern which began on Sunday and worsened Monday and Tuesday, that the Iran conflict could spiral out of control.
'The mood here is intense and paranoid', one person said.There is anxiety among senior leaders that the fighting will extend for weeks, further stressing limited U.S. air defense stockpiles.'There is concern about this lasting more than a few days', said another person. 'I don't think people have fully absorbed it yet, like, what it has done to our stockpiles. It often takes two or three interceptors to ensure a missile is stopped.'
Others mock that view saying "What kind of nonsense is he talking about? Two or three to stop a missile? They need about ten interceptors to watch the missile strike anyway."
Apparently, the "experts" are trapped in a fairy-tale La-La-Land of their own making. They seem to believe the lies they have been telling themselves for years about how effective US weapons systems are, and how weak our adversaries are.
When the real world intruded upon their La-La-Land echo chamber, the results proved catastrophic. The real world has proven that US Missile defenses are not nearly as effective as the "experts" concluded them to be. Turned out that the real world is not a test range where perfect conditions exist for defenses to operate.
The real world is messy, chaotic, electronically noisy. The defensive systems don't perform as expected.
Making things worse, the incompetent morons in the former Biden regime, gave very large amounts of our defensive missile inventory, to Ukraine. So our supplies are now "very low" and the US has begun TURNING DOWN requests from Persian Gulf allies who are seeking immediate replenishment of their near-empty defense missiles.
The country of Qatar now has less than ONE WEEK of defensive missiles.
In the meantime, Iran keeps firing their older, less accurate missiles at all those US allies, to use-up their missile defenses. Once the defenses are exhausted, Iran can start firing their bigger, better, newer, missiles, and really inflict far more serious damage.
The Trump people approached Iran via Italy over the weekend to talk about a ceasefire. Iran flatly rejected it without any further discussion at all.
Iran's plans are clearly coming together with regard to overwhelming the US and Israeli defenses.
Unless the US can neutralize Iran's launch capability - and as already made incredible progress to that goal - Iran can actually win this conflict.
Russia and China are helping Iran. Payback to the US for what the US has been doing to Russia by supplying Ukraine, and what the US is trying to do to China: Cutting off Iran oil to China, which has to import 80% of Iran's oil to meet China's annual oil needs.
(HT Remarks: Long before this conflict began, I told readers of this website and listeners to my radio show, that if we went to war against Iran to placate the whiny Israelis, we would be opening Pandora's Box. Now, even the most mentally dense can see that Pandora's Box is open, and it isn't working out well for us.)
