00:00Poland just stepped up in a way no NATO ally has before.
00:04Warsaw transferred Patriot air defense missiles directly to Ukraine
00:07and gave up its own place in the U.S. production queue to do it.
00:11This is burden-sharing at a scale that matters.
00:14Here is why it matters right now.
00:16U.S. Patriot stockpiles are critically depleted,
00:19stretched across Ukraine's air defense shield and U.S. operations against Iran.
00:24The production lines that make Patriot missiles are in eight U.S. states,
00:29primarily through Raytheon facilities in Massachusetts, Arizona, and Texas.
00:33Poland surrendering its queue position means those factories need to accelerate.
00:38American defense workers in those eight states
00:40are now at the center of a global missile supply crisis.
00:44That is directly linked to the outcome of two wars simultaneously.
00:49Raytheon and the Pentagon are under pressure to surge production.
00:52The question is whether American manufacturing can move fast enough.
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