https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-w...s-to-gulf/

The US is scrambling for weapons and even our allies aren’t helping out.

We spend more than the rest of the top 10 militaries combined, but don’t have enough weapons to sustain a few weeks of war.

This is embarrassing. Begging 2nd world nato countries to bail us out from a voluntary war that we don’t have the equipment to fight.

Beyond some shock and awe shenanigans, we have little ability to fight a war, despite the trillions we borrow to maintain the facade of invincibility.

#PanhandlingForPatriots

lulz

I have a nephew deployed to Poland now. Actually, he’s in country this week for the birth of a child, but heads back out Monday. Interesting note, I asked what it was like taking that flight on military transport. He said he didn’t know, they flew over on the NE Patriots team plane. I said BS, the he showed me the photos of outside and inside the plane. Don’t know if Bob Kraft regularly shoots troops around the world on his plane, but thought it was pretty cool.

(04-01-2026 10:08 PM)banker Wrote:  I have a nephew deployed to Poland now. Actually, he’s in country this week for the birth of a child, but heads back out Monday. Interesting note, I asked what it was like taking that flight on military transport. He said he didn’t know, they flew over on the NE Patriots team plane. I said BS, the he showed me the photos of outside and inside the plane. Don’t know if Bob Kraft regularly shoots troops around the world on his plane, but thought it was pretty cool.

They charter it out and the DoD hires it, plus Atlas and I’m sure some others.

There is also the Civilian Reserve Air Fleet where the DoD has hundreds of wide body aircraft committed from Delta, United, American, FedEx, etc to supplement USAF capacity during an emergency. Deploying soldiers end on on passenger wide body aircraft more than you would think.

When the unholy alliance between grifting Democrats and grifting RINO’s work weekends to ship billions in equipment and cash to a dictator in Ukraine you end up with depleted weapons stockpiles.

Couple that with a generational opportunity to eliminate multiple levels of Death to America Iranian mullahs it could not be ignored.

While the timing might not have been optimal, the results this far have been outstanding. Loss of life while tragic thus far it has been at a minimum considering the hours the DOW has spent targeting enemy assets.

Hopefully we’ll find out why politicians who won’t work for the American people were so eager to work overtime to give away weapons and cash to a guy who refuses to hold elections.

Could Zelensky and Putin be working together to steal wealth from the US?
It’s a question that needs to be asked

Glad they didn't qualify for the World Cup.

(04-01-2026 08:30 PM)Todor Wrote:  https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-w...s-to-gulf/

The US is scrambling for weapons and even our allies aren’t helping out.

We spend more than the rest of the top 10 militaries combined, but don’t have enough weapons to sustain a few weeks of war.

This is embarrassing. Begging 2nd world nato countries to bail us out from a voluntary war that we don’t have the equipment to fight.

Beyond some shock and awe shenanigans, we have little ability to fight a war, despite the trillions we borrow to maintain the facade of invincibility.

#PanhandlingForPatriots

Most people learned in elementary school that flipping off your friends for no reason tends to lose you friends.

But not Donald Trump. Something is wrong with the guy.

Something about him is damaged. He stays 3 years old. Gimme gimme gimme. Take take take. When he loses (as he often does), he rants that it’s ‘unfair.’

How much money in both munitions (including Patriot missile systems) and cash did the Biden (Autopen) Administration give to Ukraine, Git?

Exactly. You're out of your depth here.

(04-01-2026 08:30 PM)Todor Wrote:  https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-w...s-to-gulf/

The US is scrambling for weapons and even our allies aren’t helping out.

We spend more than the rest of the top 10 militaries combined, but don’t have enough weapons to sustain a few weeks of war.

This is embarrassing. Begging 2nd world nato countries to bail us out from a voluntary war that we don’t have the equipment to fight.

Beyond some shock and awe shenanigans, we have little ability to fight a war, despite the trillions we borrow to maintain the facade of invincibility.

#PanhandlingForPatriots

You do realize the Patriot systems in question are Polish Patriot batteries that were bought from Raytheon and paid for by the Polish people. Yes, they are US built---but they arent owned by the United States. They are owned by Poland and were purchased because they would literally be on the front line in any potential conflict with Russia. If we are spending 10X more than our allies and have bases all over the world, maybe we should have purchased more than 50 Patriot batteries. That seems absurdly low considering how many places we need to protect from incoming aircraft and missiles. I think we did give a total of 3 Patriot batteries to Ukraine (any other Patriot batteries in Ukraine were given by other nations or purchased by the Ukrainians with the help of the Europeans). I do agree with you that our procurement priorities seem to be really out of whack with todays more quantity based threat environment. Our procurement methods and priorities need to be aggressively reevaluated, reformed, and redirected where appropriate. We need to be able to spend our money wisely and be capable of fielding new effective more economical weapons much faster than we do today.

(04-02-2026 04:07 PM)Gitanole Wrote:  

(04-01-2026 08:30 PM)Todor Wrote:  https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-w...s-to-gulf/

The US is scrambling for weapons and even our allies aren’t helping out.

We spend more than the rest of the top 10 militaries combined, but don’t have enough weapons to sustain a few weeks of war.

This is embarrassing. Begging 2nd world nato countries to bail us out from a voluntary war that we don’t have the equipment to fight.

Beyond some shock and awe shenanigans, we have little ability to fight a war, despite the trillions we borrow to maintain the facade of invincibility.

#PanhandlingForPatriots

Most people learned in elementary school that flipping off your friends for no reason tends to lose you friends.

But not Donald Trump. Something is wrong with the guy.

Something about him is damaged. He stays 3 years old. Gimme gimme gimme. Take take take. When he loses (as he often does), he rants that it’s ‘unfair.’

He hasn’t flipped them off enough. He needs to tell NATO to go to hell. If they whine he needs to give them directions. What has NATO ever done for the US? Not a damn thing…

We have no allies. Just lazy socialist European countries looking for us to send our sons and daughters to war to protect them.