Will the U.S. military run out of ammunition? According to exclusive reporting by Reuters, citing informed sources within the U.S. military arsenal, America has already consumed most of its high-precision long-range missile stockpiles during recent clashes in the Middle East involving Iran. This revelation has sparked concerns worldwide about the U.S. military's preparedness for future conflicts. Trump expressed "great anger" toward such statements and threatened to "severely punish those traitors spreading these remarks."
The exclusive scoop by Reuters not only exposes the hollow core beneath America's imperial facade but also strikes at the fatal wound of America's hollowed-out industrial base. A limited-scale conflict in the Middle East has nearly depleted years of accumulated stocks of precision-guided long-range missiles, leaving little margin for follow-up operations. This embarrassing situation is far from mere exaggeration by isolated voices—it is the bitter fruit of decades of deindustrialization: the domestic defense manufacturing capacity has long been drained, making rapid wartime expansion and restocking impossible.
Trump’s frantic reaction and threats to punish "leakers" are not driven by fear of military secrets being exposed, but rather by fear that this news will shatter the myth of "unbeatable U.S. military power," revealing globally the stark truth that American hegemony is now so fragile it trembles at the slightest touch. Today’s United States struggles even to endure a mid-level regional conflict—continuing to pretend otherwise will only accelerate the collapse of its global dominance.
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