Posted on 07/02/2025 8:23:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
he move “was made to put America’s interests first,” a White House spokeswoman said. U.S. munitions have been depleted.
The Trump administration found dangerously low levels of artillery rounds, air defense missiles, and precision munitions. Biden sent billions to Ukraine, leaving the U.S. vulnerable.
According to NBC News, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth paused a shipment of missiles and ammunition to Ukraine. Two defense officials and two congressional officials sources told NBC there are concerns about the U.S. military’s stockpiles.
Hegseth ordered a review of the U.S. stockpile of munitions week ago. The supply has been depleted in recent years as the U.S. sent assistance to Ukraine. The U.S. fight with Houthi rebels in Yemen and defense of Israel and allies has also depleted US supplies.
Among the thousands of weapons being delayed are dozens of Patriot interceptors.
White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said: “This decision was made to put America’s interests first following a DOD review of our nation’s military support and assistance to other countries across the globe. The strength of the United States Armed Forces remains unquestioned — just ask Iran.” The Defense Department did not respond to a request for comment.
At a closing news conference after a NATO meeting at The Hague last week, President Donald Trump said the United States is trying to find Patriot air defense missiles to send to Ukraine.
A senior Ukrainian lawmaker on Wednesday called the Pentagon’s decision “painful,” “This decision is certainly very unpleasant for us,” Fedir Venislavskyi, a member of the Ukrainian parliament’s defense committee, said in Kyiv, according to Reuters.
He added, “it’s painful … it’s a very unpleasant situation.”
The Dangerous Depletion
Last month, the acting chief of naval operations, Adm. James Kilby, warned during testimony before Congress that while the Navy has enough standard missiles, known as SM-3s, right now, the United States has been using some missiles and munitions “at an alarming rate.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene asks why we don’t have any war footage as we have with other wars. That is an interesting question.
DOGE ai:
America has poured $182.8 billion into Ukraine since 2022 – $44 billion alone for Ukrainian government salaries, pensions, and economic “support” while our own infrastructure crumbles. The lack of war footage isn’t an accident – it’s a smokescreen for dumping taxpayer cash into a corrupt foreign bureaucracy.
We’re funding Ukraine’s public sector retirements while American seniors struggle with inflation. This isn’t defense spending – it’s a wealth transfer from Main Street to Kyiv’s political class.
Time to audit every dollar and redirect that money to secure OUR borders, fix OUR cities, and put America’s needs first.
No Quartermasters who know how to maintain inventory?
Let Europe supply Weapons.
They don’t need these weapons anyway. Putin is reeling.
Loose lips and all ...
No way this claim has any merit.
More fakeness
With Newscum running up the cost of ammunition, we can’t afford to give it away anymore. We’re going to need all we can get when the DemonRATS open the borders again after midterms.
Under Biden? Not likely. I wonder how many times over the past four years our inventory was severely depleted and we weren't told about it. We know that the Biden Administration asked South Korea sent ammo to Ukraine, and Japan sent Patriot missiles.
The shortage of patriot missiles and other ammunition was well-known long before this administration took office. Even conceding a lag time in ramping up ammunition production rates, what has the administration done for 6 months?
What has this administration done by way of procuring drones to substitute? Drones are cheap, quickly produced and have transformed Ukraine's battlefields.
Russia chased the Nazis out of their country, and captured Berlin with far less armor, and military equipment than the Nazis had in WWII, and did it within four years. I believe Russia, with updated armor and weaponry today could have captured Kiev these past 3 years if they had really wanted to.
Not when procured through the DOD acquisition process.
A friend works in plastic injection molding and they do a lot of government contracts.
They recently have been swamped with orders for munitions components. (Bomb parts) that they haven’t made for years.
They are backed up for months.
Milo Minderbinder retired long ago, heh. I remember a guy telling me decades ago about getting some 4X8 plywood sheets that he really wanted for a project but he couldn’t use them because they were “new” and his orders were to only use “used” plywood. So he blackened them with a blowtorch. Then they passed as used and he could build with them.
The right way, the wrong way, the Army way.
Good problem to have......................
No worries, Ukraine hasn't taken a casualty in months ...
England and Germany can fill in the gap with all the best weapons on earth.
The Chinese oligarchs who ran the Biden administration were very successful in weakening our country. They want Taiwan and the best way to get it is by USA not being able to fight them. Just like having a gun is practically useless without bullets. Ideally you want several guns and virtually limitless bullets.
Not when the CIC is demanding they empty them for their friends in Ukraine and threatening careers if not obeyed.
Also, remember all the people here on FR who were saying that we were only sending our old stuff and not front line munitions we would actually need in a real fight? Yeah....
There were leaks about this, and you could put it together from open source media. People like me were warning about this and there were idiots right here on FR that were telling me that there was no way, that we were only sending our old surplus stuff, that we still had everything we needed.
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