Rob Stein
speaker
556 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Rob Stein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Absolutely.
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You know, there just wasn't the anticipation before the Ukraine war and the Iran war that you might need this many Patriot missiles.
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We just haven't seen this level of ballistic missile fire coming from countries hostile to the U.S.
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or its allies.
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So we've just sort of reached some unprecedented situations and the stockpile just isn't there and they can't be made fast enough to keep up.
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In fact, one of the reasons Russia seems to be firing so many ballistic missiles now is they know Ukraine doesn't have defenses in place.
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So rather than wait, in which case Ukraine may get more defensive missiles at some point, Russia is firing off missiles at a higher rate than they can make them because they know Ukraine is relatively defenseless at this point.
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So the Pentagon says that it can, but we have seen the deaths of 18 U.S.
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service members and more than 650 have now been injured.
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And you've got 50,000 or so troops on ships, on bases, spread throughout the region, and
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The U.S., it doesn't seem, has ideal protection in all these places.
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We've seen some hits on some bases where there may not have been systems to shoot down ballistic missiles or we're not able to detect drones and drones carried out lethal attacks.
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So it placed a very heavy demand on the U.S.
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in defending all of these different places that it has in the Middle East and Iran has gotten through.
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As we've seen here in Ukraine where they've been able to penetrate Russian defenses with drones.
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The Iranians have learned lessons from that, and they've managed to penetrate U.S.
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facilities.
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It's very difficult to have every defensive system at every base when you have so many places to protect in the Middle East.
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Terry Gross, a barely living legend.
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Okay.
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