Trump says Iran peace deal is 'largely negotiated'

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39. We aren't bombing now because we are very low on ordnance

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It took weeks to stage the Navy in theater. I assume they came with a full load of ordnance, and everybody assumed that the "war" would be over in a couple of days -- just like the 4-day prediction of Russia conquering Kyiv.

There has been a lot of talk about how many rockets and drones Iran has left, but the consensus is that they have at least half of what they started with, and are re-supplying / rebuilding every day.

There has also been some talk in the media about the asymmetric nature of this war -- that the US is spending million-dollar systems to fend off attacks from drones costing $20,000. And there has been talk that it might take 10 years of production for the US to rebuild the desired supplies of expensive things like cruise missiles. What nobody mentions is that, even if we have enough ordnance left to keep pounding Iran, it has to be transported from the US a half a world away. And you probably won't airlift most of that. By ship, this takes 2-3 weeks, and at the rate we were shooting off rockets, it might take multiple round trips to fully resupply the forces, in other words 2 months.

Trump is stalling because we don't have the ammo in place, plus we have lost access to some of the bases where we would normally keep supplies.