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One observes in your original comment, "I don't take much from this move, to me it just shows that we can keep dumping weapons into Ukraine, and Russia can keep destroying them. Basically, Russia is producing weapons in factories and sending them to Ukraine for combat, we're ‘producing’ weapons by emptying munitions warehouses and sending them to Ukraine for disposal, while negotiating with Drag Queens, the Chinese, and now Geriatrics, to try to figure out how to start producing weapons again."

Posted this morning --- "Zelenskyy outraged after Biden rejects Ukraine's NATO membership: 'unprecedented and absurd',"

Source: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4167016/posts

It seems your stance, "while negotiating with Drag Queens, the Chinese, and now Geriatrics, to try to figure out how to start producing weapons again," is very apt.

Since Clinton and forward to today's $32 plus trillion USD in debt, the "peace dividend" has been squandered and now the West, not just the US, is finding itself and its de-indutrialzation a big problem. We've got expensive "new" weapons but precious little remaining stock of conventional weapons according to gaffes from the Resident Geriatric-in-Chief.

Backing away from debates about sit-rep and all, this seems rather like a poker game in which one side raises the stakes, the opposing side sees the bet and raises, and so on. The only remaining question is which side has the actual industrial resources to continue to raise the stakes. MAD is the outside border, no matter whose side someone is on.

So, will the de-industrialized West be able to match the industrializing non-West by "ramping up?" Time will tell. I am not enthused by the prospect of the Resident Geriatric-in-Chief and the European equivalents asking for more chips 'on account' because the banks, not the betters, are always the winners and the 'house' of reality makes the stakes in the end. Tick tock.