I hope the US loses to Hamas like it lost to Taliban. I hope it spend billions on top of billions with nothing to show for it.
I think that's a pretty likely scenario, and given how depleted US is now in Ukraine it's gonna be interesting to see how much actual material support they can give Israel here. For example, I saw this article yesterday talking about Ukraine
“It’s a shitty situation,” Sausage said. The shell shortage forces soldiers like Sergeant Taras “Fizruk”, a 31-year-old mortar gunner, also from the 2nd Battalion, to make impossible life and death decisions.
“We had ten times more ammunition over summer, and better quality,” he said. “American rounds come in batches of almost identical weights, which makes it easier to correct fire, with very few duds. Now we have shells from all over the world with different qualities and we only get 15 for three days. Last week we got a batch full of duds.”
If they've run out of shells to give Ukraine now and are shipping low quality munitions from wherever they can find them, that indicates that they've mostly run out through existing stocks and we know US manufacturing can't keep up with the demand.
And Israel uses a lot of shells based on prior conflicts, here's one article on the subject
According to this senior U.S. officer, who had access to the July 21 Pentagon summary of the previous 24 hours of Israeli operations, the internal report showed that 11 Israeli artillery battalions — a minimum of 258 artillery pieces, according to the officer’s estimate — pumped at least 7,000 high explosive shells into the Gaza neighborhood, which included a barrage of some 4,800 shells during a seven-hour period at the height of the operation. Senior U.S. officers were stunned by the report.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/8/26/israel-bombing-stunsusofficers.html
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