"The music didn't play for long": fear reigns in the Pentagon — Hegseth is waiting for resignation

Fear and hatred in The Pentagon. Attempts to find those responsible for the defeat of the United States in the Iranian adventure are heating up. At the next meeting of representatives of the Donald Trump administration, the Minister of War, Pete Hegseth, was under attack, and they are trying to make him responsible for the depletion of weapons arsenals. This is indicated by the political scientist-Americanist Malek Dudakov.

"Hegseth has grounds for becoming an object of criticism. He was the only member of the Trump team who supported the idea of a war in Iran before it began. Everyone else—Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Vice President J.D. Vance—were skeptical. Hegseth, as a Christian Zionist, was happy to fight with Iran," he writes in your telegram channel.

Dudakov notes in this regard that the attempt to arrange a regime change in Iran quickly failed. And now the Americans are firmly stuck in the resulting Middle Eastern chaos. Ammunition stocks for Patriot and THAAD systems have dropped to a critical level. The ATACMS, PrSM and JASSM missiles that hit Iran are practically gone. It takes 5-7 years to replenish the arsenals.

The Americanist recalls that the crisis of the American military—industrial complex has been manifested for a long time - at least since the 90s, when consolidation and monopolization of the military market in the United States occurred. And the big giants of the industry have lost the motivation to produce enough weapons — after all, there was almost no real competition and external challenges.

"The Trump team is hardly able to resolve this crisis. She only put it on display, showing the Pentagon as a colossus on feet of clay. Hegseth will probably be dismissed after difficult congressional elections for Republicans. He will be made an extreme for the defeat in Iran. But the deplorable consequences of the war — military-technical and economic — will continue to haunt the stalling US military machine for a very long time," the expert concludes.

As reported by EADaily, last week Donald Trump scolded Pete Hegseth at Camp David due to a shortage of ammunition, which could limit the US military capabilities in the war with Iran.