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Lori Siegel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
3/26/26: Trump Threatens Iran, Pentagon preps Ground Troops, US Enlistment Age Increase

So this is from the Royal United Services Institute.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
3/26/26: Trump Threatens Iran, Pentagon preps Ground Troops, US Enlistment Age Increase

It is one of the oldest, I believe it might be the oldest defense think tank in the world.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
3/26/26: Trump Threatens Iran, Pentagon preps Ground Troops, US Enlistment Age Increase

It's a UK-based think tank and very similar, let's say here to the United States, the CSIS, the

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
3/26/26: Trump Threatens Iran, Pentagon preps Ground Troops, US Enlistment Age Increase

what is it, Center for Strategic Institute Studies, something like that.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
3/26/26: Trump Threatens Iran, Pentagon preps Ground Troops, US Enlistment Age Increase

But these are very respected defense think tanks, usually very tied into the military industrial complex and almost always actually have a pro-war bias.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
3/26/26: Trump Threatens Iran, Pentagon preps Ground Troops, US Enlistment Age Increase

However, they're very good at what they do.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
3/26/26: Trump Threatens Iran, Pentagon preps Ground Troops, US Enlistment Age Increase

They do a lot of analysis around interceptors, math, they read budget proposals, they look at open source, and they compile all the data together.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
3/26/26: Trump Threatens Iran, Pentagon preps Ground Troops, US Enlistment Age Increase

So I wanna be clear here, they don't have the exact data, but they have a very good track record.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
3/26/26: Trump Threatens Iran, Pentagon preps Ground Troops, US Enlistment Age Increase

Now here is what they warn.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
3/26/26: Trump Threatens Iran, Pentagon preps Ground Troops, US Enlistment Age Increase

Let's put my tweet, please, up here on the screen.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
3/26/26: Trump Threatens Iran, Pentagon preps Ground Troops, US Enlistment Age Increase

So the Royal United Service Institute now estimates Israel is days away from running out of aero interceptors and that the United States has already burned about 40% of the available THAAD stockpile in the Iran war and only has about three weeks left.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
3/26/26: Trump Threatens Iran, Pentagon preps Ground Troops, US Enlistment Age Increase

So let me linger here a little bit on all of the types of munitions, the Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 munitions.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
3/26/26: Trump Threatens Iran, Pentagon preps Ground Troops, US Enlistment Age Increase

These are the interceptors that come up, hit the Iranian missiles.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
3/26/26: Trump Threatens Iran, Pentagon preps Ground Troops, US Enlistment Age Increase

By the way, they haven't even been working that well.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
3/26/26: Trump Threatens Iran, Pentagon preps Ground Troops, US Enlistment Age Increase

Do you notice, Crystal, the date on the projected depletion date?

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
3/26/26: Trump Threatens Iran, Pentagon preps Ground Troops, US Enlistment Age Increase

March 27th, 2026.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
3/26/26: Trump Threatens Iran, Pentagon preps Ground Troops, US Enlistment Age Increase

The current date is March 26th.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
3/26/26: Trump Threatens Iran, Pentagon preps Ground Troops, US Enlistment Age Increase

Now they could be wrong.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
3/26/26: Trump Threatens Iran, Pentagon preps Ground Troops, US Enlistment Age Increase

They could be wrong.

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
3/26/26: Trump Threatens Iran, Pentagon preps Ground Troops, US Enlistment Age Increase

This was based on the projections of the first 16 days of the conflict.