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📰 America Is Firing Porsches at Iran’s Mopeds Trump’s Iran war is turning the Pentagon into a luxury air‑defense service for the Dollar Store of drones. Bloomberg reports that Iran’s arsenal of attack drones and ballistic missiles has put “unexpected strain” on the U.S. military as the conflict drags into its third week. Iran spends less on defense than the state of Vermont produces in GDP, yet its mass of cheap Shahed‑style drones and missiles is forcing the U.S. and its allies to burn through scarce, high‑end interceptors at a rate planners never imagined. Each Iranian drone can cost tens of thousands of dollars; each Patriot or similar interceptor fired at it can cost millions. Analysts say the coalition has likely launched more than a thousand PAC‑3 interceptors already — close to or above annual production — while critical assets like a THAAD radar in Jordan and an early‑warning radar in Qatar have already been taken out. For ordinary Americans, that math is brutal: billions in munitions and operations, higher deficits, and more pressure on an economy already squeezed by energy prices and inflation. Trump sells it as strength, but in practice he’s locking the U.S. into a war where a sanctions‑strangled Iran bleeds the world’s most expensive military with mass‑produced flying junk — and sends the bill to the American middle class. ​ ​#iran#trump#drones#usmilitary#economy#war#fakeGreatness 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸