Beware worn out cliches from the 60s.
Posted on 05/05/2022 5:37:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
So, do we believe the stories that fit our narrative or theirs’s?
Beware the military-industrial complex.
It has long been a truism that wars are won through logistics.
And I believe one of the big takeaways from the current conflict is that Russia has done a poor job with logistics and this has caused big problems for them.
And I keep hearing news stories about how the US (which, technically, is not even engaged in a war) is running low on some key weapons. Pretty amazing.
Have you ever noticed that gigantic storage bunker system east of LA in the desert?
The MIC is saying they *can’t* make any more right now due to the supply chain issues. They aren’t making money when they can’t make a product to sell.
maybe the Talleyban will resupply Miley and his Pentagram?
(...sounds rhetorical...)
Did Biden's "Destroy America at every opportunity!" people have a role in the decision?
THERE!
Solved it.
I have never been in the military so I may be showing my ignorance. If we sent 5000 javelin missiles, say they used 4000. At 90% accuracy does that mean the Ukrainians destroyed 3600 tanks? And what about the supplies from the other countries?
I hear this is old technology, we don’t have more advanced objects in our storage?
On one hand the war profiteers want more contracts to build weapons and on the other hand the government is run by idiots. So it’s a toss up if we are really out of javelins or just another scam to waste American tax dollars.
Depleting our weapons caches as well as our oil reserves. It’s almost like they’re trying to destroy the country...
Who knows? Yesterday it was reported that we gave the Ukes a third of our Javalins and that we only made 800 a year.
Incompetence from the top down.
Beware worn out cliches from the 60s.
“The Long, Lucrative & Bloody Road To World War 3”
> MAY 05, 2022 - 02:00 AM
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/long-lucrative-bloody-road-world-war-3
Well, this war in Ukraine will last “months and years.” At least, that is what the leaders of the D.C. foreign policy blob, the media, President Joe Biden’s men, Pentagon and NATO leadership have decided. Their plan is to pour oil on the flames and keep the fire raging. Also, Americans are going to have to cough up the dough for another massive aid package, with $20 billion worth of weapons to keep the blood flowing. In total, this next package will cost the taxpayer $33 billion. With Biden’s proposed $813 billion “defense” budget for 2023, the U.S. is spending more on the military and war now than ever before in the country’s history.
/snip/
“We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine,” Austin said with a clear eye toward increasing Russian casualties and the long term destruction of Moscow’s conventional power.
Perhaps, Austin wants to cripple Russia so severely that his Pentagon can fight a war with China, the “most consequential strategic competitor and the pacing challenge for the Department,” without having to worry so much about Moscow—deemed a second tier “acute” threat, albeit one armed with roughly 6,000 nukes—getting involved.
Austin’s Raytheon pals are making a killing on this proxy war as well as the ancillary effects such as European NATO states, at long last, increasing their military spending.
As Ron Paul has written,
One group of special interests profiting massively on the war is the US military-industrial complex. Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes recently told a meeting of shareholders that, “Everything that’s being shipped into Ukraine today, of course, is coming out of stockpiles, either at DOD or from our NATO allies, and that’s all great news. Eventually we’ll have to replenish it and we will see a benefit to the business.”
He wasn’t lying. Raytheon, along with Lockheed Martin and countless other weapons manufacturers are enjoying a windfall they have not seen in years. The U.S. has committed more than three billion dollars in military aid to Ukraine. They call it aid, but it is actually corporate welfare: Washington sending billions to arms manufacturers for weapons sent overseas.
By many accounts these shipments of weapons like the Javelin anti-tank missile (jointly manufactured by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin) are getting blown up as soon as they arrive in Ukraine. This doesn’t bother Raytheon at all. The more weapons blown up by Russia in Ukraine, the more new orders come from the Pentagon.
[rest at link]
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/long-lucrative-bloody-road-world-war-3
Who was the US planning to use those anti armor missiles on? My guess is most of them would be slated to Russia.
I think we can make more javelins in the time it will take Russia to make more tanks and invade Europe.
It does cause one to question as to whether this war is being used to deplete the US of weaponry.
Correct. The Military-Industrial complex (AKA Deep State) is no longer a cliché but rather a fait accompli.
“The missile has produced a 90% kill rate against Russian armor in Ukraine, a senior defense official told reporters this week at the Pentagon.”
LOL. Is it according to Ghost of Kiev?:)
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