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Originally Posted by Damien
Trump did an interview with Elon Musk yesterday. Most of it was the same kinda stuff but he said there is another country with an Iron Dome that no one knows about......
Did he reveal something or was he lying?
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I don’t think he’s necessarily lying if he’s using Iron Dome interchangeably with simply advanced anti-missile and anti-aircraft defence systems.
The Iron Dome meets a very specific requirement that it’s not clear anyone else would need. Who is likely to find themselves under frequent short range, limited warning rocket or missile attack from an aggressor that (ordinarily) they couldn’t just blow out of existence with their own military strength due to the densely populated areas they are operated from.
That said, you’d perhaps not rule out South Korea, the Saudis, or the smaller oil rich states in the Persian Gulf from developing more advanced systems than publicly stated in case things escalated in the region by dissident groups in Yemen, Oman or simply region wide tensions with Iran.
Edit: if he’s taken literally could it be secretly on Taiwan?