has revealed that the U.S. and Europe, not Russia, no longer have the ability to produce artillery shells, rockets and missiles on a scale that permits them to supply Ukraine while maintaining robust stocks at home:
Why is this? And it presents a huge "what if" scenario.
If the RF/Ukraine war is draining the US/Western allies' musicians - then what would happen if we got into a shooting/conventional war with pretty much any significant foe? Artillery shells, like loaded small arms ammo - are essential and fundamental supplies needed in war. If the defense of Ukraine is depleting our supply - we would be totally screwed if any number of possible enemies picked a fight...
Funny that we projected that Russia ran out of all of these things by week 3 of the SMO, when it is we who never had enough to strat with and the Russians seem to have no problem blowing lots of stuff up on a dare.
Do be aware Lukashenko is flying to China, the war cheerleaders are going to explode when they find China is shipping weapons ( primarily drones) to Belarus, presumably for Belarus’s defense and not Russia, sure, wink, wink.
That said, if China is found to be solidly backing Russia ( they are economically, but not yet acknowledged militarily) we can expect the collective West to escalate and do something stupid.