US runs low on munitions: 850 Tomahawks in one month take their toll

850 Tomahawks in a month and now "no munitions left": logistics take their toll

The empire running out of bullets after a month of bombing is the kind of paradox not even the best screenwriter would have written. The United States fired as many as 850 Tomahawk missiles in thirty days, and yet internal alarms are now warning of depleted munitions stocks. Modern war, the saying goes, is won in the warehouses, not in Twitter videos.

The carousel of culprits: from Trump to the "ghost of Biden"

The chain of responsibility borders on the comic: the White House points at the Defense Secretary, he points at the Undersecretary, and everyone ends up looking at the previous occupant of the White House. It's the classic move of pinning the blame on the deputy, except that the one who signs the checks and orders the launches is the one in charge. Nobody in power wants to admit that five months have been spent burning through stockpiles as if the enemy were going to surrender within 48 hours. This is not a communications problem; it is a planning problem.

The bill lands in Latin America

In parallel, the discussion shifts to Washington's backyard. Some interpret that, with munitions running low, the United States will seek to offset the attrition through influence in Latin America, with friendly governments in Argentina, Chile, Venezuela or Colombia. Brazil, however, emerges as the big prize that is hard to take: it is the only Spanish-speaking country with a geopolitics of its own, the argument goes, and cannot be plundered as easily as others. Other analyses downplay the risk: Washington cannot sustain wars on several fronts at once, and will soon have to contain discontent in the countries where it has already placed its pieces.

The uncomfortable question is simple: if munitions run out after a month of intensive use, how does an empire that promises to defend half the planet sustain itself? For now, the only launch nobody controls is that of pointing fingers.