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New York Times reporter and author Jonathan Swan says his sources inside the White House claim President Donald Trump was well aware of the consequences of attacking Iran but marched forth with missile strikes regardless.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs always, interesting to get a view from inside and what your sources say,\u201d MS NOW anchor Ari Melber told Swan. \u201cMany foreign policy experts and critics would say the list of things you report from them were reasons to be more dubious about starting the war. Do you detect a shift in sort of realism or skepticism about what they’re doing over there?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of this was not just predictable, but it was predicted actually,\u201d said Swan, co-author of Regime Change<\/em>. \u201cHe was warned about the munitions supply. He was warned about the potential for the Strait of Hormuz to be shut down. What happened was Donald Trump believed at a very core gut level that none of these things would happen because the war would be over quickly, because he believed that the US and Israeli militaries would crush Iran so quickly that none of these things would come to bear. But of course, that was a miscalculation that we’re now seeing play out five months later.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swan said that the White House is trying to deny the truth that the US is \u201crunning out of weapons,\u201d but it is, in fact, \u201ca really profound problem,\u201d particularly with the supply of interceptors, and Patriot missiles.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have depleted our supply. It was already pretty bad before the start of the Iran war, and it’s just gotten substantially worse throughout the war. We’ve hugely drained, America’s stockpiles of long-range weapons,\u201d Swan said. \u201cThese are the kinds of weapons that, God forbid, if we ever got into a conflict with China, we would potentially need them. So, they’re facing real constraints as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Worse, Swan reminded Melber that Trump’s own team presented him last week with plans for what would have been \u201ca major escalation against Iran\u201d involving a huge increase in the number of bombs and missiles, while knowing full well the nation\u2019s thinning munitions capabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could have a global economic calamity on Trump’s watch,\u201d warned Swan. \u201cAnd that’s before you even get to what I was just talking about, which is the very real weapons constraint. So that’s the landscape he’s facing. And he’s in a really difficult position.\u201d<\/p>\n

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