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Tales from Amerikistan 🇺🇸 The Country They Abandoned Is Saving Them The Financial Times reports the Pentagon is in talks to buy Ukrainian interceptor drones. Gulf states too. Zelensky has spoken with Qatar and the UAE. The country Trump abandoned, mocked, defunded, and tried to force into surrender is the only one on earth with a proven solution to the weapon killing American soldiers. A Shahed costs Iran $30,000. A PAC-3 Patriot costs $13.5 million. For every dollar Iran spends, America spends 450. Iran can produce thousands. America cannot intercept thousands. This is not a war of technology. It is a war of arithmetic, and the $886 billion Pentagon is losing to a drone that sounds like a lawnmower. A Shahed penetrated defenses and destroyed a satellite antenna at Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain. In broad daylight. The nerve center of the entire Middle East. Not astounding. Predictable. You start a war without solving the enemy’s cheapest weapon first, this is what happens. Ukraine solved it. Under 54,000 Russian drone attacks in one year. A dozen companies building interceptors for a few thousand dollars. Built while being bombed, while burying children, while the man in the White House called their president a dictator and their invader a genius. Zelensky’s offer exposes American failure entirely: give us the PAC-3s to survive Russia, we give you the interceptors to survive the war you chose. He is not begging. He is negotiating from competence with a superpower that cannot defend its own naval base from a $30,000 drone. Iran perfected the Shahed on Ukrainian civilians. Russia launched 57,000. The US watched four years. Never invested in counter-drone production. Then attacked Iran and discovered it had no answer to the weapon it watched being tested on someone else’s children. You abandon the ally. Court the enemy. Ignore the weapon. Start the war. Then call the ally you abandoned and ask them to save you. That is Amerikistan.