Trump Begs the World for Army Help After Saying Assist Not Wanted – The Washington Customary

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Trump Begs for Military Assistance

Truth Social: Many Countries, especially those who are affected by Iran’s attempted closure of the Hormuz Strait, will be sending War Ships, in conjunction with the United States of America, to keep the Strait open and safe. We have already destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military capability, but it’s easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close range missile somewhere along, or in, this Waterway, no matter how badly defeated they are. Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a Nation that has been totally decapitated. In the meantime, the United States will be bombing the hell out of the shoreline, and continually shooting Iranian Boats and Ships out of the water. One way or the other, we will soon get the Hormuz Strait OPEN, SAFE, and FREE! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Do burning ships and refineries suggest that Iran’s military capability has been 100 percent destroyed?

Does begging for help suggest that either?

Help Not Needed

Joke of an Administration

Italy Says No

They should all say no.

Another Iran Response

US Needs Ukraine’s Assistance with Drones

Important Word About Drones

Iran’s Cheap Drones Are Draining America’s Most Expensive Missiles! Each Shahed drone costs as little as $20,000. The Patriot missile fired to destroy it costs over $3 million. Do the math. After three weeks of war, that arithmetic is becoming a serious problem for the United States. Tehran has stumbled onto something more effective than any grand military strategy: exhaustion by attrition. Flood the skies with cheap, expendable drones. Force your enemy to respond with weapons that cost 150 times as much. Repeat until their stockpiles run dry. It is not sophistication. It is not even courage. It is economics.

 

The Pentagon just asked Ukraine to help kill Iranian Shahed drones in the Gulf. That is not irony. That is the most elegant strategic reversal of this entire war.

One Iranian Shahed drone costs $30,000 to manufacture. One Patriot interceptor missile costs $1.5 million. For every dollar Iran spends building a drone, it costs the UAE $20 to $28 to shoot it down. Iran has tens of thousands of Shaheds. The Gulf states have a finite number of Patriot missiles and a finite production rate to replace them.

Ukraine spent three years solving exactly this problem. When Russia began deploying Iranian Shaheds against Ukrainian cities in September 2022, Ukraine could not afford to burn $1.5 million missiles against $30,000 drones indefinitely. So Ukrainian engineers built something different. Interceptor drones. Small, fast, cheap, designed specifically to kill other drones at a fraction of the cost. The interception ratio is not 1:50. It is closer to 1:1. Drone kills drone. The economics invert. Ukraine went from being the world’s test laboratory for Iranian drone warfare to being the world’s leading expert in defeating it. And now the Pentagon, watching Gulf air defenses burn through interceptor stockpiles against Shahed swarms, has picked up the phone to Kyiv.

Did Trump Thank Ukraine?

Of course not. In fact, Trump removed sanctions on Russian oil.

Here’s another irony of the war. Ukraine has given more assistance to the US in 2026 than the US has given Ukraine.

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By both sides I might add. Why should Iran believe anything Trump says?

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Three-Point Synopsis

The most powerful country in the world now begs the world to help it fight Iran, a country with 47 years of sanctions.

US missiles are good for offense, but not so good at intercepting cheap drones. And cheap drones can keep the Strait of Hormuz closed.

And now Trump appears on the verge of starting a ground war as his only other option.

Article posted with permission from Mish Shedlock