Sarah Szalavitz💡Mar 5
A Dangerous Mismatch: 🇺🇸‘s Pricy Missiles & Cheap🇮🇷Drones flip.it/f46Mfd Each🇮🇷missile costs ~$1-2 million, with 100s produced monthly. 🇺🇸makes 50 patriot missiles monthly, at $5m each. To🛑 1🇮🇷missile may need 3🇺🇸missiles. & 🇮🇷is making ~60k “suicide”drones monthly, at $50k each. The math does not math
The Dangerous Munitions Mismatch Between America and Iran

The United States has only so many expensive munitions to send after Iran’s cheap and plentiful arms.

The Atlantic
Show threadSarah Szalavitz💡Mar 5
🇺🇸 may not have capacity to take down full barrage of Iranian drones, officials warn Chair of joint chiefs of staff & others in classified meeting said 🇮🇷 is trying to get 🇺🇸 to spend its munitions www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... aside from 🇨🇳, 🇷🇺 & basic math, who could’ve ever predicted this?

US may not have capacity to ta...
US may not have capacity to take down full barrage of Iranian drones, officials warn

Chair of joint chiefs of staff and others in classified meeting said Iran is trying to get US to spend its munitions

The Guardian
Show threadSarah Szalavitz💡Mar 12
The Implications of Iran Mining the Strait of Hormuz Are Many—and Ugly Laying mines is cheap—and easy. Clearing them is expensive and hard. The potential consequences are terrifying. flip.it/07QsKM aside from anyone looking at a map of 🇮🇷 with basic math skills, who could have ever predicted this?

The Implications of Iran Minin...
The Implications of Iran Mining the Strait of Hormuz Are Many—and Ugly

Laying mines is cheap—and easy. Clearing them is expensive and hard. The potential consequences are terrifying.

The New Republic
Show threadSarah Szalavitz💡Mar 13
Trump Putinously Removes Sanctions on Russia to Help Oil Flow Amid Iran Conflict Treasurer Bessent said it was “unfortunate” that the move benefits 🇷🇺. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u... Russia is not only profiteering—but also openly doubledipping by sharing targeting intel & selling drones to Iran.

Trump Removes Sanctions on Rus...
Trump Removes Sanctions on Russia to Help Oil Flow Amid Iran Conflict

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said it was “unfortunate” that the move could benefit Russia, but maintained that it was only for the short term.

The New York Times
Show threadSarah Szalavitz💡Mar 13
Pentagon & NSC (PUTINOUSLY) underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz Even tho “Planning around preventing this exact scenario - impossible as it has long seemed — has been a bedrock principle of US nat sec policy for decades” BECAUSE IT IS SO OBVIOUS!! www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...
Show threadSarah Szalavitz💡
Suspended U.S. Sanctions Add a Political Win to Russia’s Economic Gains www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/w... Putin is selling drones to🇮🇷& sharing intel to enable🇮🇷to target 🇺🇸& our allies—& the 🇺🇸is feigning surprise about the Gulf of Hormuz—isn’t it evident that this was Trump’s putinous plan!? #SPECTRE

Suspended U.S. Sanctions Add a...
U.S. Sanctions Pause Adds Political Win to Russia’s Economic Gain From Iran War

Kremlin officials said the American move, which Europe opposes, showed that Moscow could not be dislodged from the center of global energy markets.

The New York Times
Mar 13 at 6:49pmWeb