State Department approves over $8B in arms sales to Gulf nations

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7. Chance of renewed attacks on those countries,

after they've mostly exhausted their defensive weapons in the last series of attacks.

Of course, the problem is that between what we sent to Ukraine in '22, '23, '24 and even '25 (and didn't replace) and what we used last summer (and didn't replace) and what we used in March (and didn't replace) we're sort of running a bit low on some of those munitions ourselves. Even as there's a persistent demand to send even more to Ukraine. (Which demand I support, but that doesn't change the base fact that we're running low on some of those munitions and replenishment rates are abysmal.)