https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fn4vNYNRzA
I just wanted to add something that I was reading yesterday and sent to you. There has been a very interesting article published by RUSI. RUSI is the United Royal Services Institute. It is the primary think tank of the British Army. It was created and set up in the 1830’s by none other than the Duke of Wellington who was the general who defeated Napolean at Waterloo. So that gives you an idea of how old and established it is.
And, anyway, this article basically said that the Russians are cranking out shells and missiles at rates that even the United States can’t keep up with. And that the Russians expend in a period of ten days to 2 weeks in Donbass more shells...they fire more shells than the U.S. produces in a year. And that they have used more cruise missiles in four months than the entire annual production of cruise missiles in the United States multiplied by, I think is was, a factor of three.
So with no sign of stress, with no sign that they are running out. So when you look at these numbers you understand that there is no possibility of any giant re-equipment of the Ukrainian army with some western weaponry which will enable the Ukrainians to launch counter attacks. There wouldn’t be time to train Ukrainian troops to use them anyway.
But, those numbers of military hardware the west could provide would be quickly submerged by the much bigger production that the Russians seem to have organized of these things at the moment. So far from Russia being the petrol station masquerading as a country, in critical areas of arms production it’s actually out producing the United States, itself. And I am not saying that...that is from the primary think tank of the British army.
My observation that this war has degenerated into a logistics and attrition war has some interesting components.
Russia can produce a lot of ammo, but has a LONG supply line that occasionally gets threatened by Ukraine forces.
Ukraine does not currently have a lot of ammo production and relies on NATO nations and a LONG supply line that is not currently threatened to any great extent by Russia.