There should be no doubt that the USA has run down its munitions stockpiles way below where the military would like them to be. There also should be no doubt that Trump/Hegseth/Netanyahu et al. did this against the advice of the military brass and the CIA. Under Trump, the USA has no geopolitical strategy, the Pentagon - the enormous military planning apparatus of US imperialism - has become superfluous.
The military industrial companies of the world are rejoicing, and the world is rearming, but the balance is shifting against the USA. Europe is becoming independent, Russia is running out of steam, East Asia is rearming, and China is rising. Israel's comet is running its course, leaving devastation in its wake, but running out of fuel as the US runs out of munitions. The short term is unpredictable, but there is not doubt that the epoch of US military dominance is coming to an end. If Trump had not been born, this would have happened, but Trump is accelerating the process in the most irrational way possible. Anthony On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 8:10 PM Mark Baugher via groups.io <mark= [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Apr 24, 2026, at 16:38, steven colatrella via groups.io > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wrote this a couple of weeks ago and no one here,seemed to think it was > plausible. > > > Other people agreed with you, Steven, IIRC. And it's still being discussed > in the bourgeois press. The question I have is whether it's being talked > about because it's real or is it being talked about because some powerful > people want it talked about? > > I heard this report this morning: > https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/iran-war-draining-us-supplies-of-critical-costly-weapons-nyt/vi-AA21DtKv?cvid=566ac0002413441eeb58a4bdfa3ed6d8&ocid=BingNewsVerp > as > a counterpoint. I don't have any special knowledge of US munitions stocks. > > In the original posts, there was some talk about US de-industrialization > and overall military readiness. In that context, the firing of the > Secretary of the Navy is interesting because he was charged with building > the "Trump Class" battleship for Trump. And by 2028. It had to be made with > US steel, US design, and in a US shipyard. That turns out to not be > possible because the supply chains no longer exist. > > I don't think there are any naval-warfare experts (except for Donald > Trump) who think that battleships are still effective weapons. It's not > even clear that ships are effective weapons anymore. At least not in the > Black Sea. But de-industrialization is undermining US militarism. As is the > US debt. > > Mark > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41556): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41556 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/118997113/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
