The New Atlas | How the US Destruction of the INF Treaty Backfired | Sept. 3, 2026

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While the US has lofty plans to eventually outproduce Russia in terms of the many munitions and launch systems previously prohibited by the INF treaty, it remains to be seen whether or not the US has the ability to put these plans into action and whether or not Russia can continue to meet or exceed US military industrial production in the process. So far, it would appear that the US decision to unilaterally withdraw from its arms control treaties with Russia has backfired.

References:

NEO - How the US Destruction of the INF Treaty Backfired (Aug. 29, 2026):
Business Insider - Ukraine says Russia used its upgraded, longer-range 'Iskander-1000' missile in a bombardment of Kyiv (Aug. 27, 2026):
NYT - Bush Pulls Out of ABM Treaty; Putin Calls Move a Mistake (2001):
USNI - Aegis Ashore Site in Romania Declared Operational (2016):
NATO Allied Air Command - NATO Assumes Command of Aegis Ashore Site in Poland (2024):
TWZ - Diagram of Aegis Ashore system:
White House - President Donald J. Trump to Withdraw the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (2019):
TWZ - U.S. Long-Range Missiles Headed To Germany As Arms Race Escalates (2024):

The New Atlas | US Shell Factory Exposed: Why US For-Profit Industry Can't Compete with Russian/Chinese Production | Aug. 13, 2026

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The US had set the target of manufacturing 100,000 155 mm artillery shells every month by the end of 2025.

Instead, it has failed to reach even half this target.

This is in part due to an entire General Dynamics factory that failed to make a single usable shell component in 2 years and after receiving hundreds of millions of dollars to do so.

Far from just an issue with artillery shells, US military industrial production is being held back by systemic flaws rooted in the for-profit nature of the US government and economy itself - siphoning off billions (if not trillions) of tax dollars and not only returning nothing of value for the American public - but diverting funding abroad on wars of aggression at the expense of funding healthcare, education, and infrastructure at home.

This reveals US for-profit industry as the very threat in reality to the American people, industry and the politicians they own, claim Russia, China, and Iran are in fiction.