Posted on 10/23/2022 9:21:31 AM PDT by Mariner
The Biden administration is giving so much military assistance to Ukraine to combat Russian forces that it's risking not having enough weapons to help defend Taiwan should China invade, according to experts and former top national security officials.
"Our weapons stockpiles are low, in large part because of the war in Ukraine, which means if there's another war, or if we need to provide weapons to Taiwan, those weapons aren't going to be there because these weapons are complicated to make — they're expensive," former National Security Council Chief of Staff Fred Fleitz told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Friday.
"My guess is the Biden administration has put no priority whatsoever into weapons production, and there's going to be a severe shortfall," added Fleitz, a former CIA analyst. "It's a dangerous situation."
Former Trump administration National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien issued a similar warning on Fox News this week.
"We need to replenish the stocks of everything that we've sent to Ukraine," he said. "We're low on missiles. We're low on Javelins. We're low on Stingers. We can't supply them to Taiwan now."
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Like your tagline. That’s what I have been sensing.
I agree with it.
try to imagine a war to defend Taiwan.
if you’re brain didn’t immediately realize we’d be defending it against CHINA... the country who received our entire manufacturing base... then you’ve got a problem.
if you didn’t realize one second later that we couldn’t make cotton masks 2 yrs ago and would probably have significant issues supplying a war effort against them... then you’re just not paying attention.
I have been an optimist, and still am to a lesser degree, but...sometimes...that seems obvious to me!
What would George Washington do ?
Hey Experts! Biden is on China’s Payroll.
Not just weapons, he drained the S.O.R nearly dry.
U.S. depletion of Strategic Petroleum Reserve highlights Canada’s energy security benefits - Energy News for the Canadian Oil & Gas Industry
https://energynow.ca/2022/10/u-s-depletion-of-strategic-petroleum-reserve-highlights-canadas-energy-security-benefits/
25 days of diesel
https://jalopnik.com/theres-only-a-25-day-supply-of-diesel-in-the-u-s-repo-1849687971
The Democrat Party motto: “Anything to hurt America.”
Don’t you just hate it when DC’s plans for world war in Europe louses up our other plans for a world war in Asia. Biden definitely needs to prioritize our new and varied world wars. Heck, we might get in over our head.
btt
Politico.com
By KENNETH P. VOGEL and DAVID STERN
01/11/2017
<>Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire; foreign aid billions threatened
<>Kiev scrambles to make amends with president-elect Trump after working to boost Clinton.
<>President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, and the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, insists that Ukraine stayed neutral in the presidential race.
Donald Trump wasn’t the only presidential candidate whose campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet bloc country.
A Politico investigation found
<><>Ukrainian govt officials helped Hillary and trashed Trump, questioning his fitness for office.
<><>They disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption
<><>They suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election.
<><>They helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers.
A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.
Russia’s effort was personally directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, involved the country’s military and foreign intelligence services, according to U.S. intelligence officials. They reportedly briefed Trump last week on the possibility that Russian operatives might have compromising information on the president-elect. And at a Senate hearing last week on the hacking, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said “I don’t think we’ve ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to interfere in our election process than we’ve seen in this case.”
There’s little evidence of such a top-down effort by Ukraine. Longtime observers suggest that the rampant corruption, factionalism and economic struggles plaguing the country — not to mention its ongoing strife with Russia — would render it unable to pull off an ambitious covert interference campaign in another country’s election.
And President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, along with the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, insists that Ukraine stayed neutral in the race.
Roh Roh, does that mean Putin hasn’t already lost?
Complete and utter LIES.
Only a small percentage of the US weapon arsenal has been given to Ukraine.
Furthermore, companies are increasing production.
Stop with this Putinist doggerel.
A war to defend Taiwan would be a 100% Air and Naval war.
It’s where we have no peers.
Ukraine is not in NATO. It is a highly corrupt country. It is not a “democracy.”
The whole sordid story.
Ukraine Worked With Democrats Against Trump in 2016 to Stop Putin. The Bet Backfired Badly.
Real Clear Investigations ^
Posted on 3/10/2022, 8:11:28 AM by FarCenter
Six years ago, before Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country, the Ukrainians bet that a Hillary Clinton presidency would offer better protection from Russian President Vladimir Putin, even though he had invaded Crimea during the Obama-Biden administration, whose Russian policies Clinton vowed to continue.
Working with both the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign, Ukrainian government officials intervened in the 2016 race to help Clinton and hurt Trump in a sweeping and systematic foreign influence operation that’s been largely ignored by the press. The improper, if not illegal, operation was run chiefly out of the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, where officials worked hand-in-glove with a Ukrainian-American activist and Clinton campaign operative to attack the Trump campaign. The Obama White House was also deeply involved in an effort to groom their own favored leader in Ukraine and then work with his government to dig up dirt on – and even investigate — their political rival.
Ukrainian and Democratic operatives also huddled with American journalists to spread damaging information on Trump and his advisers – including allegations of illicit Russian-tied payments that, though later proved false, forced the resignation of his campaign manager Paul Manafort. The embassy actually weighed a plan to get Congress to investigate Manafort and Trump and stage hearings in the run-up to the election.
As it worked behind the scenes to undermine Trump, Ukraine also tried to kneecap him publicly. Ukraine’s ambassador took the extraordinary step of attacking Trump in an Op-Ed article published in The Hill, an influential U.S. Capitol newspaper, while other top Ukrainian officials slammed the GOP candidate on social media.
Mariner is correct. We are very dependent on trade flowing through that region of the world.
I heard Liz Cheney accuse MAGA Republicans of being isolationists. Just because we don’t want America sticking its nose into every other country’s business, it doesn’t mean we are isolationists. We still need to be able to defend vital our national interests.
In the case of Taiwan, we should sell them the tools they need to defend themselves.
This entire article is bogus. Ukraine is a land war. The weapons provided Ukraine are much different than what would be needed to come to the aid of Taiwan . Taiwan would be a naval and air war. Anyone with a knowledge of the geography of Ukraine and Taiwan should know that. This is a propaganda piece.
Th current regime will let the Chicoms have Taiwan because China owns them.
It is all a head fake that we will war over it.
Not real journalists but journalists who write propaganda. It works for both sides of the political isle.
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