U.S. military ammunition shortages, attempts to deploy missile defense systems rejected by Poland

People’s Finance and Information, April 1—As the fighting in the Middle East has dragged on, the United States’ offensive missile inventory has shown a shortfall, and Iran’s continued counterattacks have also left the ammunition the U.S. uses for defense in the same situation of “not enough to go around.” On March 31, the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita cited information from insiders, reporting that the United States is asking its NATO ally Poland to redeploy a Patriot missile defense system to the Middle East region to replenish its increasingly dire ammunition stockpile and respond to Iran’s counterattacks. In response, Poland’s defense minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said later that day on social media that Poland’s missile defense system is used to protect its airspace and NATO’s eastern flank and will not be moved elsewhere. (CCTV Finance)