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The West Needs a War Footing
The Wall Street Journal ^ | March 28, 2024 | Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Posted on 03/31/2024 11:23:44 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Two years after Russia invaded, Ukrainian forces are outgunned. Russia has a 6-to-1 ammunition advantage along the front lines. If this persists, Vladimir Putin’s ambitions will become a reality.

The imbalance in weapons supplies is a major failure of Ukraine’s allies in the West. North Korea delivered as much artillery ammunition to Russia in one month as the European Union has been able to deliver to Ukraine in one year. Russia produces three million shells a year, while the U.S. and Europe combined are able to produce only 1.2 million for Kyiv. Despite the vast economic might of the democratic world, we are being outproduced by an arsenal of autocracy in Russia, Iran and North Korea.

If Western allies don’t immediately ramp up the supply of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine, the future will be bleak. If Mr. Putin isn’t stopped in Ukraine, it will mean decades of instability and conflict in Europe. We need to wake up to that danger and put our economies on a war footing.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: killkillkillforpeace; mic; ukraine
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1 posted on 03/31/2024 11:23:44 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Wall Street Journal needs to STFU!


2 posted on 03/31/2024 11:26:37 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The first thing we do Is Conscript the blood relatives of every Federal Employee and Military Contractor and their Employee’s, as well as ALL THE IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS, give them a couple weeks of training and send the entire bunch straight to the Front Lines in Ukraine. Watch how fast it ends.


3 posted on 03/31/2024 11:26:41 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: MinorityRepublican

“We need to wake up to that danger”

The neocons and their evil war mongering plans are the danger we need to wake up to.


4 posted on 03/31/2024 11:26:45 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: mass55th

WSJ: We need to follow psychopathic neocons further down the toilet!


5 posted on 03/31/2024 11:28:43 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: eyeamok

The first thing we do Is Conscript the blood relatives of every Federal Employee and Military Contractor and their Employee’s, as well as ALL THE IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS, give them a couple weeks of training and send the entire bunch straight to the Front Lines in Ukraine. Watch how fast it ends.

Nah. They will just surrender and leave in the position to give them Federal Government aid the rest of their lives……..
Then a bunch of rural kids will have to go do the job anyway.


6 posted on 03/31/2024 11:29:18 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan (Repeatedl)
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To: MinorityRepublican

No, no, people tell me Russia is falling apart and will lose all that land soon. No need to do anything.


7 posted on 03/31/2024 11:29:52 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
The military has already begun the preparation phase of calling up retired military officers under the age of 70 for deployment.

There have been rumors in DC of reintroducing the draft by the end of summer.

Biden's people are already preparing for a world war.

8 posted on 03/31/2024 11:31:18 AM PDT by Publius
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To: MinorityRepublican

What treaty commits us to Ukraine?


9 posted on 03/31/2024 11:34:16 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ComputerGuy

Budapest Memorandum.


10 posted on 03/31/2024 11:34:54 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

So, the war is 2 years old.

And the media tells me that the Ukrainians are outgunned and out supplied.

How crummy is the Russian army?


11 posted on 03/31/2024 11:36:47 AM PDT by Tzimisce ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Got it.


12 posted on 03/31/2024 11:37:21 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Millions of potential soldiers and terrorists are invading our borders, but let’s instead focus on policing the world.


13 posted on 03/31/2024 11:39:42 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Tzimisce
How crummy is the Russian army?

Doesn't matter. It's how they win. War of attrition.

14 posted on 03/31/2024 11:41:26 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: PGR88

“Two years after...”
“The West Needs a War Footing”

The idea of going on a “War Footing” is to do it BEFORE you start running around the world starting wars. Hitler did it, Japan did it, FDR did it, China is doing it it, and Iran is doing it.

This isn’t very complicated, unless you’re an IDIOT Neocon who has NO BUSINESS starting wars around the world.


15 posted on 03/31/2024 11:48:33 AM PDT by BobL (The USA was not built with DEI and it will not survive being forced into DEI)
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To: Publius
There have been rumors in DC of reintroducing the draft by the end of summer.

LOL. Will they even find a dozen Americans who would obey a draft order?

16 posted on 03/31/2024 11:48:37 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Alberta's Child
LOL. Will they even find a dozen Americans who would obey a draft order?

They shouldn't. It's unconstitutional according to the Thirteenth Amendment.

17 posted on 03/31/2024 11:50:41 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

This Wall Street Journal article was brought to you by your friendly defense contractors.

Translation:

We need money, money, money, money, money.....


18 posted on 03/31/2024 11:51:20 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Angelino97

According to the Wall Street Journal we need to defend every border in the world—except ours.


19 posted on 03/31/2024 11:52:24 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: MinorityRepublican; ComputerGuy

All that does is say the participating countries will converse over questionable conduct.

No military or financial expectations are a part of that.


20 posted on 03/31/2024 11:54:10 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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