“...considered sourcing multiple rocket launchers from museums to upgrade and donate to Ukraine”
I’m reminded of the cannon scenes in the movie Sahara.
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Obvioulsy, the solution is moar immigration. The $$ to put migrants up in four star hotels is the best way for Western democracies to spend their money. That and transgender operations.
The defense contractors knew what they were doing buying the politicians to ship the stuff to Ukraine so the contractors could manufacture all the replacement stuff right.
I sort of hope so because another explanation would be China already runs the West and wanted us to waste our weapons on Ukraine to wear down Russia so China ends up king of the hill.
You could almost excuse those European states if they were solving other problems with the money they were saving. But it seems they have created more problems instead.
...fighting a proxy war against Russia could never be won.
And, yet, there morons here that are defending the Biden regime and still want to waste more taxpayer dollars and military assets fighting a war that has already been lost.
A weak Europe forced to choose US protection or else???
DJT wanted them to pay their own way in NATO as I recall.
There was supposed to be a ‘peace dividend’ after the Cold War ended. But it didn’t end. Russia just took some time off and now they’re back.
This has been obvious since March 2022.
But instead we got Regime lies (rebroadcast by the Zeepers on here) that it was Russia that was running out of munitions. And Russia couldn’t produce anything because of sanctions.
America has turned into a server farm with nukes, with no industrial capacity for peer war.
Excuse me. But the West has been hollowed out for a decade or two.
Our focus has been on words, bluff, and intimidation to us (citizens) and the rest of the world. Now that it's time actually to do something, we can see those words are just hollow words (i.e. lies). That's all. Words to drain us of our own thoughts and our money.
The chickens are comeing home to roost!
They're building a million man army full of battle-hardened veterans trained on the battlefield against NATO tactics and equipment in modern ground combat.
The last US troops that saw actual combat in Iraq and Afghanistan are now pushing retirement age, if not already retired from the military.
Every Biden foreign policy initiative he has ever launched has ended in disaster, yet many were willing to let him lead NATO into this debacle. The Hopelessly Stupid never fail to amaze me.
Read this morning that the ~100 Billion dollar plus up to Israel, Ukraine etc. also includes 18 Billion for US replenishment of armaments that were lost in Afghanistan and given to UKR.
“The West has hollowed itself out.”
The American taxpayer has protected them while they built high-speed railways and housing for immigrants.
They chose wine and month-long vacays on the Mediterranean, assuming the US would always be there.
First, no Toilet Paper.
Now, no 155mm Artillery shells.
Should have stocked up.
Yes. This is the 1930s all over again with the added flourish that the West appears to actually WANT to commit suicide.
Since we financialized our economy what we need to do to fight the Russkies is develop new financial instruments. MBS (Military Backed Securities), CDS (Cruise missile Default Swaps), and CDO (Collateral Death Options). That’ll teach them!
After Ukraine, the last big army that remains is Poland.
I don't think there's anyone else left although the French have been keeping themselves busy in Africa but that's mostly Special Forces?