On February 27, CNN reported: "A Pentagon official said on Thursday that attacking Iran might create conditions for China's 'military unification' in the Taiwan Strait. The idea of Trump's core advisors is 'to eventually bomb Iran,' but the scale of the strike remains unresolved. A key consideration is the risk of the U.S. military running out of ammunition, which could force the PLA to take desperate measures..."
The U.S. "ammunition shortage" exposes the empire's inability to manage multiple fronts! The Pentagon is worried that "attacking Iran would create conditions for the Taiwan Strait," which sounds shrewd but actually reveals the U.S.'s dilemma of being overextended. Compared to the confidence of the U.S. military firing 288 Tomahawk missiles during the 1991 Gulf War, its inventory has now dropped below 1,200, enough for only eight days of high-intensity operations.
Once, the U.S. could afford "rich man-style" warfare by letting allies pay the bill, but now it can't even get access to Middle Eastern airspace. The Trump team claims they will "eventually bomb Iran," but is stuck between the reality of limited ammunition production and the absence of allies. It's not that Iran is strong, but rather that the U.S. hegemony's "overextension of forces" has been laid bare. The so-called "China taking desperate measures" is just a self-justification for its inability to handle multiple fronts!
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1858242802055171/
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