Posted on 09/11/2024 9:43:20 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The UK’s National Audit Office has recommended the Ministry of Defence “balance Ukraine’s needs and the UK’s strategic interests” after finding training and supplying the Ukrainian armed forces had reduced the capability of the British armed forces.
The British military has taught so many Ukrainian soldiers its own Army has struggled to get vital exercise time on its own training facilities, a government report has found. The National Audit Office (NAO), the UK-government funded autonomous value for money assessor also found the sheer volume of equipment donated to Ukraine from UK stocks will cost billions to replace and take years to source.
Looking at the way these two factors may limit the ability of the British Army to deliver its core mission, the NAO reflected: “The MoD has acknowledged that Interflex will constrain the British Army’s capability to train its own soldiers on its training sites… As the MoD considers its future support for Ukraine, it will need to continue to balance Ukraine’s needs and the UK’s strategic interests with the need to maintain the UK’s own military capabilities, through maintaining stocks of equipment and sufficient training provision for UK forces.”
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There are. The Big Question: Are they "volunteers" unconnected with the U.S. government -- or CIA funded private contractors?
The American military veterans who’ve fallen in Ukraine.
Peters, 28, had died in February while fighting as a volunteer with the Ukrainian Foreign Legion.
Ex-SEAL dies in Ukraine; 6th known American killed in war
Every American Killed or Captured Fighting Russia in Ukraine.
The British Army is no longer British. It’s part of NATO, which is an arm of the globalist American Empire.
They are volunteers who are in the Ukrainian military and collecting that modest pay.
I wonder if the British Army will have enough time to Fire on UK Subjects that resist UK Protected Class Muslim Terrorist Child Murdering Knifemen?
some people say its “London’s” plan for the USA to fight Russia.
How long has this been going on - couple of years?
All of European NATO forces, American military arms and intel, who knows how many hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars, and sanction after sanction after sanction - we even confiscated 300 billion of their own money!
Yet we have not won. The Houthis are still causing trouble in the Red Sea. Much shipping still has to go around Africa out of fear.
Is Russia that strong? Or is NATO that weak?
The only success the criminal leaders of China have these days is the weakening of their Western competitors.
There is nothing left to defend in England.
There is a game of 4D Chess being played. And while I firmly stand for Ukraine and her sovereign right to exist and to hold the pre-2014 territory... I have a major problem with how all of this unfolded, and how it is being strung along.
Russia/Putin has its own version of “NATO” - called the Russian Federation. You either play along and be a part, or he installs his own puppet via subterfuge or via military action. that is what spawned the 2014 Russian attack/war on Ukraine - Ukrainians were sick and tired of “Russia” - over a century of being raped and pillaged by Russia - particularly via the Soviets and their Communism.
Yes - an unfathomable degree of corruption (they learned it from Russia in their fight to simply survive). Yes, the entire world screwed them over when they (with pressure and weak support from the West) left the old Soviet Union - by negotiating away their ability to defend themselves, and gaining essentially nothing to help them climb out of what was then deemed “4th World status”(aka a nation that was left with shadows of modernity, but with infrastructure and organization worse than 3rd world). The Ukrainian people grew disgusted with both the corruption (that right or wrong, they associated with “Russia” and communism). That made for wildly unstable government. Putin/Russia were able to (via money/bribes/oligarchs) to install via corrupt election, a puppet - who further increased corruption. MUCH MUCH more transpired before what became the 2014 Maidan Revolution, which eventually ousted the insanely corrupt Russian puppet president. Putin saw that as his trigger for the “other” option he had used on other neighboring nations to force them into his empire -
Who can blame Ukraine for desiring NATO membership? They have dealt with Russian influence and abuse for hundreds of years in one form or another - and Putin represents the very thing they were trying to escape when they left Russia...
But we could have stopped... even ended the Russian war against Ukraine... if the West REALLY wanted to. Alas - that brings us to the “4D chess” I mentioned to begin with -
There are powers that be - even above the WEF - that are playing this chess game - all to further enrich themselves, and to solidify their own, shadow power.
And that game includes weakening the West - and this is what the UK is discovering... and probably too late to reverse course. Even if they immediately shut off ALL aid in ALL forms to Ukraine - it’s too late. If the UK were to be invaded next week - or find themselves in need of making war elsewhere - they would be routed pretty easily - as they have left themselves sorely short of weapons systems, ammunition, and other resources.
And what an honest review would find - the US isn’t too far behind in our self-inflicted weakness.
But let us not forget - the same Western powers have made promises to Ukraine that it has never had intentions of fully keeping - and despite incredibly amounts of money and material goods - its all been calculated to STRETCH OUT this war as long as possible. The more weapons and weapons systems that are expended there - is more than Western nations will have to replace... of course with new and far more expensive systems. But in the meantime - we are at a distinct weak point -
Add in that the US military overall is dramatically missing recruitment and retention quotas - we are rapidly approaching a point where, were a major conflict break out - we would have to crank up the draft because we simply don’t have the active duty, volunteer military we once did. And those soldiers will find themselves in a similar position as their Ukrainian counterparts who - upon being called up to active duty (or conscripted) - have no weapons to train and go to war with!
And this is why I agree with President Trump’s repeated statements (and I do believe he personally wants Ukraine to “win”) that he simply wants to end this war - because the human toll has grown to a heartbreaking level - all to accomplish what?
And now that we know that our own Federal Government, via Raytheon, has been selling weapons technology to our primary enemies today: China, Iran, and Russia - it couldn’t be more clear what this is REALLY about - and Ukraine is simply being used as a pawn.
And despite what the media and lots of social media talking heads (mostly Trolls and bot accounts) might say - there is a LOT of real suffering going on, especially in Ukraine. People I personally know. Places I have been. Families I have visited.
If the war ended today - it will take no less than a decade and funding that none of the Western nations currently “helping” Ukraine can afford, to rebuild.
All for what? War is, indeed, a Racket...
I know several US Veterans who have struggled with civilian life - and who have investigated going to fight in Ukraine. For them, it isn’t really about $, but by being “back in the game”.
You’ve got that upside-down and backwards. The REAL Power is found in London (not be be confused with the formal Government of the UK) and the Vatican.
Let’s get real....
NATO forces, from all NATO countries, are engaged in the Ukraine war, whether doing training of the Ukes. or contributing armaments/equipment or doing actual fighting alongside Ukrainian soldiers. The Ukes didn’t have the preparedness to go against Russia in the beginning of the invasion, now they’ve proven to be as capable (if not more so) than the Russians.
Back in the game and idealism, I’ve know many mercenaries (which these aren’t) and they focused on fighting Communists and against bad guys, they wanted to help and did.
Skeptical that an army recruited from a self-indulgent, homosexualized society like the modern UK can properly train fighting men.
No, the Vatican has no power, despite what you’ve read by Tony Alamo or in Chick Tracts.
Do you think that pound for pound the Russian or Chinese fighting man/unit is superior to his British counterpart, whether infantry/armor units, support units, or air?
“ If the war ended today - it will take no less than a decade and funding that none of the Western nations currently “helping” Ukraine can afford, to rebuild.”
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You do know that most of the destruction in detail has occurred in areas of Ukraine occupied largely by ethnic Russians and native Russian speakers? When it comes time for rebuilding those areas I suspect those ZEEPERS currently so eager to give American taxpayer money to Ukraine will be in heavy opposition.
Just sayin’.
Already Depleted British Army Further ‘Constrained’ by Training Thousands of Ukrainian Soldiers
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If the radical communist/socialist/democrat Harris gets in office via a steal or outright win America will have turned LEFT down Socialism Blvd and our Army/Navy will continue to erode/deteriorate just like Britain’s.
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