Afrasianet - Sameh Al Mahariq - Leaked reports about the shortage of US ammunition stockpiles have angered US President Donald Trump, and he saw them as a weakening of his country's negotiating position in the face of Iran, because this appears to be a success for Iran's strategy, which has depleted the US stockpile, especially in some critical categories of weapons, and the inability of the Americans to rise to the challenges that accompanied the entry of drones into the equation in the ongoing war with Iran.
It costs a maximum of $50,000 and sometimes requires missiles costing more than $3 million each, making the war too expensive for the Americans, who assumed they would not fight heavy wars after the end of the Cold War, and were content with asynchronous interventions in some countries, and were investing more in their military reputation than on its effectiveness.
"The loss of American reputation that Trump incurred almost gratuitously, to show his country that he is unable to secure a small waterway, came as a result of President Trump's poor presidential performance".
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In the economics of war, the United States seems to be in a relatively difficult position, as the Iranians are fighting on their own soil, and the cost of the Iranian soldier is much lower than that of the American soldier, who wants to go to fight in well-equipped bases at a high cost, and in difficult times is moved to five- and four-star hotels, opening up a debate about the suitability of the U.S. military's structure for long attritional wars, compared to its traditional superiority in short, high-intensity wars, which sometimes mean nothing more than opening the door to the wind.
On the other hand, the Iranians can mobilize hundreds of thousands of ideological youth who can actually eat the grass of the earth, and the Iranians have previous experience in the Iran-Iraq war, to turn the human body itself into a field weapon in their dealings with Iraqi minefields. In practical terms, Iran can deal with levels of losses, austerity, and mobilization, which the Americans cannot market politically at the popular level, and cannot be passed on to the political level.
Washington entered the war with an unencouraging biography, its chapters were written in Afghanistan and Iraq, and some of its chapters are still written in Ukraine, which was also a black hole that consumed American ammunition, in a continuous war whose chapters are successive without approaching any resolution or political result.
In this case, the Americans find themselves faced with the option of an agreement, which practically means a zero-handed exit, because it is not considered an advanced step from what President Obama accomplished in his previous agreement, and constitutes a blow to President Trump on a personal level.
He can pay the price sooner in the next midterm elections, and later with the political and legal consequences he may face, after he turns into a failed president who has exposed the United States and stripped it of its reputation as part of its symbolic capital in the face of the world. From a front to the consumption of American ammunition in the face of indiscriminate missiles and drones, and even to the lowest quality and cost over time.
Tehran knows the reluctance of the US president and his war apparatus to wage a large-scale war on infrastructure and inside Iranian cities because it does not have a strategy for the next steps, and what violent reactions Iran can launch in the moments of its fall and dismemberment in all directions, so that the American intervention on the ground becomes necessary in order to extinguish the repercussions of the ideological arm in Iran.
Which will cost procedurally and on the ground many times more than what has been employed in Iraq and Syria in the face of movements such as ISIS and " President Trump and his showmanship did not realize the moment when he should stop, and avoid moving from a threat to a deep blow to Iran, represented in the assassination of the Supreme Leader and the attempt to strike the chain of command in a continuous way with the targeting of part of Iran's missile platforms, and the Israeli incitement remained based on estimates related to the perception of what can be described as an intelligence success inside Iran.
And he did not realize that the Israeli experience in narrow and lightning wars does not necessarily apply to Iran, as the country is vast and complex and has A militarization that is no less than the one that exists in Israel, and therefore cannot be treated in the way that Israel has fought in the past.
The U.S. can avoid the immediate impact of announcing a decline in its ammunition stockpile and the need to invest in manufacturing more munitions in the short term, through a compromise with Iran that gives it the opportunity to reproduce itself and rebuild its priorities, but the long-term impact on other fronts will become unavoidable and could become part of the U.S. end-chapters not in the sense of its decay and decline in the pattern that was happening to previous empires.
But in its return to a back-to-back player in the global arena, or its determination The loss of American reputation that Trump incurred almost for free, to show his country unable to secure a small waterway, came as a result of the poor presidential performance of the president who is trying to escape the entitlements of the current situation.
By attacking former President Biden and returning to the past, like an old man who loses his ability to communicate with reality in the necessary way, and the Americans should probably think about the paths of confrontation that Taiwan will blow up with China with the presence of the enormous manufacturing capacity in the The American century.
Which Roosevelt started in World War II, and continued to be built by President Eisenhower with his military reputation and principles, which defined the rules of engagement and contact stations around the world, and was able to lay the foundations for crossing the Cold War and dismantling the Soviet empire, ends with the next President Trump as a real estate dealer, marketing models and wrestlers, and wasting what was invested in the image America and the power of Uncle Sam, which has remained tied to the model of strongmen such as Johnson and Reagan, or socially inspiring models such as Carter and Obama, is being used by Trump to be an expression of the depth of the American crisis and its ability to build a global model.
Trump decides as if he is standing around the wrestling ring to take off a coat that he used to present as if he were a giant and cohesive to show his fragility and sagging muscles, which will have the exact opposite effect.
But this applies to the reputation of all of America, and a very large part of what America has built in recent decades was based on America's reputation, or the angry American ghoul who imposes his conditions on everyone, but the ghoul kept eating his ammunition without seeing and without owning legitimacy in his wars to market it as a national duty, as happened in World War II.
Star Wars remained a trap for attrition , striking the equation of war economics and the nakedness and fragility of society from within, and it seems that cheap marches will be the title of American attrition, if not today, then in the somewhat near future.
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