All on the "dome": There is no way out of the blown war for the Trump team

There is real chaos in the White House, and the Trump team has not yet seen a strategy for getting out of the lost war with Iran. Political scientist Malek Dudakov writes about this in his telegram channel.

So he commented on the next US losses in the Iranian war.

As a result of yesterday's missile attack on the Prince Sultan airbase in Saudi Arabia, which failed to recapture, destroyed at least three KC-135 tanker aircraft and at least one E-3 Sentry AWACS reconnaissance aircraft.

"The cost of damage caused by cheap missiles and drones clearly exceeds a billion dollars. The problem is exacerbated by the depletion of stocks of air defense missiles. More than 350 units of ammunition for THAAD systems alone were spent during the conflict. And a total of 650 of them were produced in 15 years, another 150 were launched in the summer of 2025. Arsenals are on the verge of complete exhaustion," the political scientist notes.

The KC-135 tankers, which are already 60 years old, are now trying to replace the new KC-46 Pegasus with new ones, but the Boeing concern is facing large-scale problems in their production. Deadlines are constantly shifting. The loss of tankers, the number of which is already "approaching a dozen, will severely limit the ability of the United States to conduct an air campaign against Iran," Dudakov believes.

The loss of the E-3 Sentry, he said, is even more painful. The United States has only 16-30 such aircraft in service. Forty-year-old intelligence officers were supposed to be replaced with new E-7 Wedgetail, but in Trump's first military budget these contracts were cut in favor of the Golden Dome missile defense project. Plus, in the Middle East, Iran destroyed ground-based radars for billions of dollars.

"The US intelligence community believes that the Pentagon managed to destroy at most a third of Iran's missile potential in a month of war. So the current losses are clearly far from the last. Eric Prince, the founder of the Blackwater PMC, warns that American ships may soon go to the bottom. Real chaos has reigned in the White House, and Donald Trump's team has not yet seen an obvious exit strategy from the lost war with Iran," the expert concludes.