Missile Defense Myths Exposed: Patriot & Iron Dome Failures

Since you worked in the CIA, you know how information flows to the president and sometimes it's blocked, well often. But is Trump getting truly bad information? For example, I I've heard Trump's people claim that US forces are able to shoot down like 94% of incoming Iranian ballistic missiles and things. Whereas, Ted Postol says it's more like 5%. Yeah, that's a lot. That's a lot. Ted's right. Ted's right, they're wrong, they're lying. Yeah, you know, and it the number, they don't have the numbers. You know, look, there as of uh, end of uh, end of uh, December 2025, the maximum number of PAC-3 missiles for the Patriot that they could have had in theory, 4,620. That means because you have to use two of those missiles for every inbound ballistic missile, if you've got that 4,620, that means you can shoot down potentially 2,310 missiles. Well, Iran's already fired that, and we know that at least a thousand of those PAC-3s were sent to Ukraine, uh starting in 2023. And since 2023, Russia's fired more than 12,000 missiles. So there's there's just no way that the Patriot missile, uh, system is still intact. It's, if it's ...