Iran’s Supreme Leader is dead.
Hezbollah rockets, militia drones, and Red Sea threats followed.
A briefing on why regimes under pressure expand conflict.
I’ve just downloaded the app Marine traffic, ship tracking to watch the Straight of Hormuz. Red is oil tankers, green is cargo. I think the Iranians have scrambled GPS without using the internet. Trump is promising insurance but no fleet and seen any such thing🤔
🇨🇦💙Will trump come begging to Zelensky for drone interceptors? The war in Iran is quickly depleting US weapons.
Iran’s Shahed-136 drone typically costs $20,000 to $50,000 per unit to manufacture, using off-the-shelf components.
Interceptor Weapon Costs:
High-end systems like Patriot PAC-3 missiles cost $3-4 million each to down a single drone.
NASAMS AIM-120 or AIM-9X missiles run $500,000-$1.2 million per shot.
Cost-effective options include :Ukraine’s 🚀 FPV interceptors at $1,000-$5,000. 🤔 trump on his knees is a lovely vision. 😏
Thank you Roxy!
You are 100% right.
The cost asymmetry you’re pointing out is real.
This is the reality of modern day warfare that trump, putin and most people in between dont understand yet.
(you do my friend and thats something to be proud of)
Cheap drones are forcing extremely military’s to use expensive interceptors.
This is one of the defining problems of modern air defense.
A $30,000 system forcing a $3 million response breaks the economics of defense quickly.
If that dynamic continues across multiple theaters, it absolutely increases the pressure on U.S. inventories.
Thats why we are hearing all over the news 3 days till Qatar runs out of interceptors..2 weeks until this place.
Thats also why some gulf states are beginning to ask the administration to “wrap this up”.
They know the reality of the moment that will soon come if this doesn’t wind down ASAP.
And if that moment comes, the political optics during a midterm year would be remarkable.
Trump spent YEARS attacking Zelenskyy and trying to undermine support for Ukraine.
(Ukraine only got stronger and is currently in one of its best counteroffensives in history thanks to growing european aid)
Yet Ukraine has become one of the world’s most advanced laboratories for drone warfare and interception.
So let’s together imagine the beautiful irony if Washington suddenly needed Ukrainian drone intercept technology.
In that scenario, you could say Zelenskyy would
HOLD ALL THE CARDS.
History has a sense of humor sometimes.
Thank you for your comment.
Remember this:
This country is bigger than a failing president.
He doesn’t define us because he never did.
I agree - this point dawned on me earlier today and when fact checked - it was definitely a thing!
congrats Roxy!
you had a hunch you did the math and look now the world falls into place
check this article out:
https://www.ft.com/content/d077e9c6-1573-46dc-8658-3db3aaf7cdfb
just came out 34 minutes ago
🇨🇦💙 Holy shit ! thx!
I’ve just downloaded the app Marine traffic, ship tracking to watch the Straight of Hormuz. Red is oil tankers, green is cargo. I think the Iranians have scrambled GPS without using the internet. Trump is promising insurance but no fleet and seen any such thing🤔
Bet trump wasn’t expecting it to play out this way