The Trump administration halted sales of a number of classes of armaments to Ukraine because stockpiles were dwindling. Since then, at the repeated requests of our assorted allies in the Middle East (most of whom have lavished financial incentives toward Trump, his family and close associates - everything from Airforce 1 to Miriam Adelson's third largest donor to Trump's 2024 election bid, donating $106 million, to investments by various sovereign wealth funds, etc.), has poured lavish quantities of advanced munitions on the Yemen Houthis, twice now on Iran and both protected and resupplied Israel during after the Gaza war and Iran's aerial attacks.

Do we still have the same strategic capabilities that we had to, say, protect Taiwan from a Chinese invasion? What is the cost of resupplying these munitions to the taxpayer? Have we charged the Middle Eastern countries for the arms we are using in the same way that we are charging Ukraine - or is all this activity on the US taxpayer's dime?

Jeff