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To: ThatWillBeTheDay
Besides, where is it stated that new accounts can’t disagree with or question another poster?

It isn't a "disagreement" when the retread poster advances the bogus argument that Ukraine, which is suffering from "shell hunger" because its NATO partners have been bled dry of 155mm artillery shells, has disarmed Russia, which is shell-wealthy and fires whatever shells or missiles its heart desires.

Russia, however, HAS disarmed NATO [see " bled dry of 155mm artillery shells", above]. You fellas aren't good sellas.

One of these situations is not the same as the other, no matter how hard you try to sell it, retread boy.    

81 posted on 03/06/2024 7:47:12 PM PST by kiryandil
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To: kiryandil

The US still holds millions of 155mm shells in stock. The cause of the “shell hunger” is the US Congress. Before that it was Pentagon bureacratic turf battles. Ultimately it is because the current US administration mismanaged this whole thing, salami-slicing aid commitments. They should have gone in big from the beginning. Indecisive and incompetent, and occasionally malevolent, describes what passes for the Biden administration.

The whole artillery shell problem is due entirely to the peculiar circumstances of the Ukraine war. Neither side can conduct a wholly modern sort of mobile war, with aerial assets fully employed. Artillery is a fallback weapon for deficiencies in other areas.

Europe/NATO does not suffer from Ukraines deficiencies. Just European NATO already has about 150 F35’s, to start. Add in another 900 or so fighters and fighter-bombers of other makes. And add in a large tech overmatch vs Russian air and air defense. The F35 changeover btw, is the big story of the last three years.

Euro NATO alone has over 2x as many combat aircraft of modern types as Russia.


120 posted on 03/06/2024 8:30:54 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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