“The Ukraine war ‘bubble’ is deflating as the U.S. and Europe reach the bottom of the arms ‘inventory barrel’.”
I suspect that our geniuses running NATO figured that a war with Russia would either quickly end or quickly go nuclear.
Problem for our geniuses running NATO was that it assumed that Russia would play by their rules and also quickly end or escalate the war. Well, Russia didn’t read the NATO rule book and has now pretty much cleaned out all of the excess weapons that NATO has (for this type of warfare) and is forcing NATO to compromise both training an operational readiness in other areas.
One OBVIOUS way to tell is the near-silence of the HIMARS attacks for the past 2 months or so. These weapons were blowing up Russian stuff (including bridges and weapons depots) left and right...and now nothing*. Oh well, I guess our NATO geniuses were wrong regarding a war with Russia.
*hint, it take several years to complete even a relatively small production run of most NATO weapons - so if NATO can hold out in Ukraine for another 2 years, they might start getting more weapons in Ukraine.
I don’t see them having two MONTHS, much less two years....
Russia is having internal difficulties, just as US did during the Vietnam War.
I expect internal dissent will win this war. That is, if nukes don’t fly first.