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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 14, 2026

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Not so respectfully, The US has warned allies to expect delays of as much as five years in key weapons deliveries as it rebuilds its own depleted munitions stocks.

Germany has asked the US to speed up delivery of the long-range Tomahawk cruise missile and the ground-based Typhon launcher, but depleted US stocks of the powerful weapon means its manufacturer, RTX Corp’s Raytheon, is unlikely to fulfil the order in the next five years.

WASHINGTON – The US is facing a shortfall in ammunition as a result of its war against Iran, the Defence Department’s inspector-general confirmed on Sept 14, contrasting with President Donald Trump’s assertions of full stocks.

In a first-of-its-kind mandatory report to Congress, the inspector said that between Feb 28 and June 30, Operation Epic Fury (OEF) had an estimated cost of US$33.4 billion (S$42.3 billion), including US$22.3 billion spent on expended munitions.

“The munitions expenditure on OEF has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply,” the report said.

This isn't hard. For many years, the stockpiles of US precision munitions were known to be finite, overpriced and very limited, this is the entire thesis of companies like Anduril. The production pipeline is very slow. The Epic Fury was intense, which you have gloated about a lot. There is no place for a conspiracy theory about secret stockpiles.

That would explain why you call Trump an idiot who doesn't understand Taiwanese chip trade

I don't care if he understands it. I care that you're an affront to Western civilization, because you care nothing about blatant libel and treason, you're entirely dismissing this aspect of his attacks on Taiwan. You're ignorant of the very notion that honesty and loyalty have intrinsic value, it doesn't even register to you as something real. You're on a lower civilizational stage then the Houthis, Shakes, and this makes you typical of the core Trump electorate.

I'm emotional about excuses for disgusting behavior, not about "America". "America" is how you justify your lack of morals.

There is no place for a conspiracy theory about secret stockpiles.

I don't think there are like 1,000 SM-6s tucked away somewhere but the US develops and even IOCs entire weapons systems in secret SAPs. Every so often (bin Laden, Maduro) you see a glimpse of what SOCCOM is playing around with, and SOCCOM is arguably one of the least useful organizations in the event of a peer conflict. It's true that SOCCOM gets an unusual (and some would say untoward) amount of shiny toys headed their way, but they are hardly the only US military branch to have secret weapons development in progress.

but the US develops and even IOCs entire weapons systems in secret SAPs

These munitions that allies are now NOT getting have no relation to what you talk about. I do not make an argument concerning any classified assets. For all I know the US has a secret stockpile of antiproton torpedoes or Trisolaran droplets in Area 51. Maybe that's what is keeping China at bay. But Tomahawks, THAADs, ATACMS, PrSMs, Patriot PAC-3s are down bad, there's no way around it.

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