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To: Kazan

ah, the old “the West is running out of ammo” lie LOL

you Russian stooges are getting desperate

as long as Ukraine wants to fight, we’ll supply them

get used to a 7 year war


19 posted on 08/31/2023 7:38:37 AM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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To: canuck_conservative

The Russians made the mistake of using some cluster munitions. That opened the door to the US supplying such to Ukraine. The US has huge inventories of these - most were supposed to be scrapped, but the funding to do so “conveniently” got left out of the budget.

A while back I found a bit dated Human Rights Watch article about those inventories. Some web searching of often conflicting sources and a bit of head scratching, regarding what may have been scrapped since, adds up to around 20 million of these munitions in various forms, artillery shells, missiles, bombs, etc., that the US still has. (That’d probably be around a BILLION bomblets - if one assumes a 4% failure to detonate rate, and 30% of inventory used, that gives some meat to HRW’s worries about the potential unexploded ordnance eventually laying around.)

If Ukraine had the means to break and keep broken Russia’s military logistics to Crimea, this war would likely be over pretty quickly.


20 posted on 09/02/2023 11:38:22 AM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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