James Stout
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military is not short on them for our purposes, but the shit that we're getting cleaned out on primarily is not... This is not the main thing.
I mean, we're definitely being stretched, but this is not the main thing.
Sidewinders, it's like our cruise missiles and it's our interceptor missiles are like the big things that we're straining on right now.
Speaking of, on May 1st, President Trump quote unquote joked, that's how most people are referring to this, joked that we will be quote unquote taking over Cuba almost immediately.
After finishing with Iran.
He has made previous comments to this effect the past few months.
I have trouble knowing how this is going to go, because obviously, like, Venezuela was the best-case scenario for them.
Like, Maduro's not personally popular, and he had a... Like, the apparatus below him was more than happy to just kind of, like, everyone move up a step and be nicer to the U.S.
Like, whereas Iran, that's...
Certainly not how anything has worked out because you had this whole state has been built for the last 60 years to endure casualties without like losing operational capacity or its ability to resist.
Cuba is not really quite like either government.
And I don't know what's going to happen.
You know, on one hand, it is a country that's exhausted.
by decades of sanctions and exhausted by, you know, what has become after Venezuela, since they're no longer sending fuel to Cuba, like their fuel crisis is just devastating.