Posted on 02/04/2023 9:18:44 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Yes this:
“The weapons were put there to be used mainly against Russia and right now they need to be used. What better way is to let Ukraine use them instead of us. Russia is still the same backwards, vicious, brutal and aggressive society it has always been.”
So, our woke military can spare plenty of munitions to defend Ukraine, but can’t be bothered to shoot down a balloon in CONUS airspace?
The Ukro-philes on here will love that.
American Companies who Grand stranded with their “Stop selling to Russia” policies are now feeling the effect. Levi’s stopped all shipments to Russia - now their warehouses have 50% more inventory than is needed.
I Herb stopped selling to Russia and is now closing their main distribution center in Erlanger, KY. I Herb is close to going bankrupt. Go woke with Russia...
Lucky for everyone then that its the Poles on the front line, not the Germans. In that post-1991 “swords into ploughshares” thing, its the Germans that carried it to absurd lengths.
Russia is a tiny market for US exports.
Any consumer product selling problem in the US is vastly more likely due to Americans not buying.
The Russians have snow-making equipment to help camouflage their tanks.
“long-range rockets”
The Russians might send a few to the US in return.
The companies have only Democratic inflation (and 80 to 81 million fools) to blame for loss of consumer buying power.
Actual items in this - comments in parentheses
(Drawn on US inventories -)
Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
Additional 155mm artillery rounds;
Additional 120mm mortar rounds;
190 heavy machine guns with thermal imagery sights and associated ammunition to counter Unmanned Aerial Systems; (interesting)
181 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicles;(these were for disposition)
250 Javelin anti-armor systems;
2,000 anti-armor rockets;
Claymore anti-personnel munitions;
Demolitions munitions;
Cold weather gear, helmets, and other field equipment.
Under USAI, the DoD will provide Ukraine with:
(thats purchases, made new, not inventory drawdown)
Two HAWK air defense firing units; (new?)
Anti-aircraft guns and ammunition;
Equipment to integrate Western air defense launchers, missiles, and radars with Ukraine’s air defense systems;
Equipment to sustain Ukraine’s existing air defense capabilities;
Air defense generators;
Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems;
Four air surveillance radars;
20 counter-mortar radars;
Spare parts for counter-artillery radars;
Puma Unmanned Aerial Systems;
Precision-guided rockets;
Secure communications equipment;
Medical supplies;
Funding for training, maintenance, and sustainment.
You can buy counterfeit Levis all day long in Russia. Probably made in the same Chinese factory where the real ones are.
Since its all one big fungible pot, then how about you just consider that your particular tax payment has nothing going to Ukraine. Instead, that 3% or so of federal spending you are not paying for is instead going to fund DEI and CRT in the Federal financial aid to universities. You do like education, dont you?
And in my case my bit all goes to Ukraine. I AM also a US taxpayer after all.
“”Germany has two days of ammunition left and only a handful of operational fighter planes, they are tissue paper.””
The increase in NATO readiness is one of the great benefits we are getting from the Russians invading their neighbor.
“Rheinmetall eyes boost in munitions output, HIMARS production in Germany”
“We can produce 240,000 rounds of tank ammunition (120mm) per year, which is more than the entire world needs,” Papperger said in an interview with Reuters.
The capacity for the production of 155mm artillery rounds can be ramped up to 450,000 to 500,000 per year, he added, which would make Rheinmetall the biggest producer for both kinds of ammunition.
In 2022, Rheinmetall made some 60,000 to 70,000 rounds each of tank and artillery shells, according to Papperger, who said production could be boosted immediately.
Demand for these munitions has soared since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last February, not only due to their massive use on the battlefield but also as Western militaries backfill their own stocks, bracing for what they see as a heightened threat from Moscow.
Papperger said a new production line for medium calibre ammunition, used by German-built Gepard anti-aircraft tanks in Ukraine for example, would go live by mid-year.
Myopic, aren’t we?
The weapons were put there to be used mainly against Russia and right now they need to be used. What better way is to let Ukraine use them instead of us. Russia is still the same backwards, vicious, brutal and aggressive society it has always been.
So what? None of our business.
Tell that to iHerb and Levis - The company I work for built the iHerb Distribution Center in KY - it was over 500,000 sq ft and highly automated - In the year they stopped shipping product to Russia, they are closing the DC and moving to a 10,000 sq ft building.
The Germans have sent no planes, and are ramping up ammo production, and general spending on defense, so, they were at least as bad off, this time last year, as they are now.
Should have been Alaska, or maybe even Japan (as we have bases there & got their ok), actually.
That’s still meaningless without a detailed breakdown of what and how much they sell where. MANY economies worldwide are weak, and that’s due as much because of poor economic policies in general as due to this war.
How are sales to China? Latin America? SE Asia? Etc.
I bought 4 pairs of 501s and a jacket for about $60 at their final sale before closure in Russia two weeks ago. A great deal!
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