A claim made by Donald Trump in a late-night Truth Social post is a telling moment in the war with Iran, a former GOP strategist has claimed.
The Lincoln Project founder, Rick Wilson, believes the president has overstepped and is dishing out false information with his claims on munitions supplies. Trump took to Truth Social earlier today (March 3) and made his thoughts on stockpiling munitions and the aid given to Ukraine clear.
He wrote, "The United States Munitions Stockpiles have, at the medium and upper medium grade, never been higher or better - As was stated to me today, we have a virtually unlimited supply of these weapons. Wars can be fought 'forever,' and very successfully, using just these supplies (which are better than other countries finest arms!).
"At the highest end, we have a good supply, but are not where we want to be. Much additional high-grade weaponry is stored for us in outlying countries."
Wilson has disagreed with the claim of strong munition supplies, instead suggesting Trump has no idea what the actual number is for the material backing the US military.
Wilson wrote, "Now let’s talk about the dangerous part: casually boasting about stockpile levels. There is a reason serious leaders don’t blurt out operational readiness claims on social media, as if they’re bragging about golf handicaps.
"Even if the numbers were accurate (and spoiler alert: he doesn’t know, and we’re burning through long-lead-time systems like a drunken sailor on shore leave), publicly telegraphing assessments of readiness, sufficiency, and shortfalls is the kind of thing professionals handle with classified briefings, not all-caps self-congratulation.
“'Wars can be fought forever.' No, they can’t. Wars chew through materiel, money, alliances, and political capital. Ask the Romans. Ask the British Empire. Ask the Nazis (the old ones, not the new ones). Ask the Soviets in Afghanistan. Ask anyone who served from 2003-2021 in Iraq or Afghanistan.
"The idea that modern, high-intensity warfare can be sustained indefinitely without economic, industrial, and human consequences is the strategic equivalent of saying your credit card has 'virtually unlimited' funds because the machine hasn’t declined you yet. Those $30,000 Shahed drones getting knocked down by $3,000,000 Patriots is a bad exchange rate."