If anyone got an S-300 anti-aircraft missile system as a Christmas present, can I suggest you return it?

The thing’s a dud.

It doesn’t work.

Send it back and demand a refund.

That’s what the Iranian Revolutionary Government should have done last year when American B-2 bombers flew over Iran and bombed the regime’s nuclear reactors.

The Iranian regime had paid a whole heap of moolah to the Russians for the system.

It was meant to shoot down any foreign aircraft that dared to fly over their skies.

But when the US Air Force came along, the whole system wasn’t worth a dime.

Earlier this week, it was Venezuela’s turn to learn the same costly lesson.

The criminal gangster regime of Nicolas Maduro also shelled out for the Russian anti-aircraft system.

But it was no match for the US Air Force.

In the historic and heroic raid last Saturday, US planes flew over Venezuela and managed to snatch the illegal “president” of that country.

They caught him and took him away without a single wing of an American aircraft even being clipped.

In other words, the Russian system is junk.

And that makes President Trump’s defense announcement this week even more important.

Some people scoffed Wednesday when the president said he wants to double the US’ defense spending.

But the president is serious, and says the increased costs (to somewhere around $1.5 trillion in 2027) can be covered by his tariffs.

Whether that is the........

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