Posted on 01/11/2023 12:51:03 PM PST by JonPreston
Within the next six months, the United States Navy may need to decide whether to arm itself or Ukraine due to a reported weapons shortage.
Weisberger tweeted that although the bulk of American weapons given to Ukraine are land weapons and not naval weapons, Del Toro's concerns are shared by others.
His comments follow concerns expressed by James G. Stavridis, a retired U.S. Navy admiral who formerly served as the NATO supreme allied commander for Europe from 2009 to 2013, over the weekend.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Ukraine is win win for Democrats . Unilateral disarmament of the US while they get rich on kickbacks
What part of the US homeland defense plan involves land warfare? If we are having artillery duels with any enemy in Oklahoma, we already lost.
Everything sent to Ukraine so far was budgeted for the defense of European territory against russian invasion, so it’s doing its job....
At least they’ll have fewer weapons to kill American citizens when they get around to that.
And here we have another FReeping FReneral chiming in, offering wind to a serious discussion.
Easy peasy - send him over to the arms bazaars of Khandahar. He can get anything he needs.
Crank up the money spigots for the defense contractors. It’s basically a license to print money for them this entire century so far.
The Balkanization of America continues, unabated.
I have no idea if any of this is true, but wouldn’t it be ironic that the USA would run out of weapons instead of Russia , considering we’ve had literally dozens of articles posted on FR in the last year stating that Russia was on the verge of collapse in Ukraine due to lack of weapons, when in reality it is the USA and indirectly Ukraine since we are funding them.
Only Biden & party could get us in this mess.
As ammo? What’s mentioned in the article. A few Harpoons for land based anti-ship use, and some SeaSparrow missiles, and some AMRAAMs. Both of those for use in the NASAMS point defense system. Given the small number of launchers supplied for either type of system (the Harpoon ones were given by Norway) we are talking of a few dozen missiles out of stocks in the tens of thousands.
The analyst comment in the article is on point. The effect on USN weapons stocks is marginal. The purpose of the statement is to prompt greater production of all weapons systems.
We can buy some from China........................
$850 billion a year doesn’t go as far as it used it.
Money doesn’t matter if you dont have the factories to produce the weapons. Globalism is a disease and tariffs are the cure.
I don't know. But I am at least open to the possibility that the Biden Admin, if confronted with a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, views as a feature, and not a bug, of its Ukraine policy, the ability to say "We deplore the Chinese aggression, and would certainly do something about it, but gosh darn-it, our munitions supply is just too low right now, and the Taiwanese are on their own."
Not to worry Carlos, those weapons wouldn't be used to defend America, maybe the Deep Swamp, but not America.
Gee, they just can’t decide who to pick. 🙄
What difference does it make? As long as we defend Ukraine who cares what happens to us?
No, not sarcasm. I am sick of US weaponry and tax money going to Ukraine to cover up for US government shenanigans.
Not to worry, the Deep Swamp and Prog Socialist Left are still well protected.
The present US government is incompetent in a thousand ways, but even these fools can react as the USG has been institutionally programmed to do for the last 80 years. The US is set up to do what it’s been doing, and it would take a truly enormous ideological-institutional flip NOT to back the Euros.
Luckily for all of us there are real brains at work in all this. Eastern Europe, notably Poland with its current government, is in the lead on assistance to Ukraine. They shamed the rest of Europe into walking the walk. They are up close and personal vis a vis the vast evil that is Russia.
On the other side of the world, Japan and Korea are in the lead vs the danger out of China. I respect the Japs a lot on this.
As for conspiracies - sure there are. The participants are fools though, or if in public they are infatuated pretenders. The problem of complexity and unintended consequences tends to sabotage such plans at the start. The whole Euro “green” strategy was screwed by this one episode, and that’s just what’s out in public.
The world moves on in a chaotic way, unplanned, unplannable, reacting to unanticipated changes and inputs coming from everywhere. The idea of a grand strategy to change the world is fatuous hubris.
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