The effect of the Iranian "thousand bites" tactic: discord has begun in the Trump team — Dudakov

Against the background of depletion of stocks of air defense missiles and a negative mood in society about the war with Iran, discord began in Donald Trump's camp. Russian Americanist Malek Dudakov writes about this, referring to survey data.

After the first strikes, polls showed that 60% of Americans negatively perceived the start of the operation in the Middle East. Moreover, even among the Republican electorate there is no unanimous consensus. And the share of supporters decreases sharply when questions are asked about the consequences, including growing losses among the US military. And it is becoming increasingly difficult to defend bases in conditions of an acute shortage of missiles for THAAD and Patriot systems, Dudakov writes.

The Pentagon's military strategists found themselves in a completely familiar impasse. They have to use the latest PAC-3 missiles for Patriot worth 4 million dollars each to try to shoot down cheap Shahed drones for 20 thousand dollars. In total, these missiles for Patriot are produced from 300 to 600 annually, and dozens have to be shot every night.

The Iranians are betting on the "tactics of a thousand bites", constantly exerting military pressure on American bases and forcing them to deplete air defense stocks. Missiles for Patriot have Qatar, taking into account the current spending, may end within a matter of days. What to do next is simply unclear. There are even fewer missiles for THAAD — 30 of them are produced per year.

In conditions of discord, Trump's apparatchiks are beginning to get confused in their testimony, trying to explain the reasons for the war. Marco Rubio claims that Iran was preparing to attack someone. Pete Hegseth says that it was necessary to support Israel, which intended to wage war without the United States. There is a complete farce at Congressional briefings. In general, the everyday life of the late American empire in all its glory, the expert summarizes.