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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.

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TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: killkillkillforpeace; mic; ukraine
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To: MinorityRepublican
Ukraine initially sought legally binding guarantees from the US that it would intervene should Ukraine’s sovereignty be breached.

And, we promised the Russians no eastward expansion of NATO and not only expand to their borders, we fomented an illegal coup in Ukraine that installed a puppet government hostile to Russia and the ethnic Russian population in Ukraine.

Stop pretending this is about honor and ethics. We lost the moral high ground in 2014 if not earlier.

41 posted on 03/31/2024 12:43:17 PM PDT by Kazan (Megan C. bet me, lost the bet and was humiliated!)
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To: jeffersondem
No chance, Lumber companies, Forest Management, Lumberjacks and Harvesting Trees is so Evil that only Satan and his Minions do it, so that's out.

You'll need Unicorns to crap cellulose.

Interestingly, newspapers are not required to explain their activities.

One would think there is an inside deal for them.

42 posted on 03/31/2024 12:45:07 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Bidenskyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy can kill two birds with one stone by making the “Illegal’s Pathway to U.S. Citizenship with the Free Little Flag” an 18 month tour in the Unkraine pushing back the Russian invaders. Joe Pedo can make his buddie Mr. Z happy, the illegals will learn that it’s not nice to invade someone else’s country to make it your own and Mr. Z can give Bidenskyyyyyyyy a good long man crush bear hug.


43 posted on 03/31/2024 12:58:10 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Xiden tries to come off as a tough guy but can't stop a herd of raggedy ass Mexicans from invading.)
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To: ansel12
Thanks to idiots like you we pushed Russia into alliance with China. Brilliant! That is the handiwork of American neocon numbksulls.

Russia didn't have to be our enemy. We made them our enemy.

44 posted on 03/31/2024 12:58:51 PM PDT by Kazan (Megan C. bet me, lost the bet and was humiliated!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Two Words: Monroe Doctrine


45 posted on 03/31/2024 1:01:14 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: ansel12
Before Russia started the biggest European War since WWII

What does the Monroe Doctrine mean to you?
46 posted on 03/31/2024 1:03:27 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Start WWIII before the election — to make the world safe for “democracy”.


47 posted on 03/31/2024 1:07:08 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: MinorityRepublican
Budapest Memorandum.

What happens if violent revolutionaries overthrow the Government and Constitution of Ukraine and install a puppet Government? What if said Revolutionaries disenfranchise half the voters in the country and some Oblasts choose to secede?
48 posted on 03/31/2024 1:07:19 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Kazan

LOL, you and raging nastiness.


49 posted on 03/31/2024 1:10:10 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: MinorityRepublican

No. Simply no.


50 posted on 03/31/2024 1:11:13 PM PDT by Chengdu54
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To: MinorityRepublican

America SHOULD ramp up the manufacture of weapons and ammunition for OUR OWN military and to protect America, especially America’s borders.

Meanwhile, the ice cream cone licker in chief left $85 billion in weapons behind in Afghanistan and sent billions of dollars in American weapons to Ukraine, weapons that we need here at home to defend OUR homeland.


51 posted on 03/31/2024 1:14:53 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: MinorityRepublican

A Memorandum isn’t a Treaty.


52 posted on 03/31/2024 1:24:01 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ring us up when the EU puts down their wine glasses and starts caring.


53 posted on 03/31/2024 1:32:25 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: jimwatx

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

Even Eisenhower couldn’t rouse the US electorate to this & I don’t see anything causing a change that would avert the current inertia in favor of the MIC. The election is likely too late, IMO.


54 posted on 03/31/2024 1:33:31 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: jimwatx

John Bolton is waxing his ‘stache with napalm.


55 posted on 03/31/2024 1:37:39 PM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: jeffersondem

By design?


56 posted on 03/31/2024 1:44:12 PM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: Navy Patriot
Russia could always give Ukraine back the Nuclear Weapons that were stationed there.

Why would Russia do that?

57 posted on 03/31/2024 1:44:12 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: eyeamok

My argument with your comment is that we were the patriots who signed up to serve our country and were deployed into combat in the service of our country while others were either not fit, had the capacity to serve their country or pursued other careers. I have no qualms about the ones who pursued other careers. But to say that those who then moved on post their military service to have to go to war again for the only reason they work/worked for a military contractor is reprehensible. Veterans to tend to gravitate towards those places with fellow veterans as there is a common bond the civilians will never understand.


58 posted on 03/31/2024 1:45:37 PM PDT by grcuster
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To: MinorityRepublican

War is always great for personal liberty. Nobody but our warmongering leaders in DC, London, and Brussels want war. No people anywhere want it. But they need a big distraction because of the way they’ve destroyed our economy and our liberties.


59 posted on 03/31/2024 1:45:47 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

No, it doesn’t. A memorandum does not have a force of a treaty. Furthermore, the Budapest memo was very clear that we were not supposed to assert our dominance there either. More importantly the government of Ukraine that was party to that was dissolved in 2014 when it was overthrown by a Nazi putsch.

Last but not least, when the Nazi forces from western Ukraine attacked Russian speakers in the east to bring them under the control of the coup government, under United Nations rules, Russia was free to act. Duty to protect.

Russia has the same legitimacy for her military action that ours did in Syria does, that ours in Kosovo did, or ours in Libya did.


60 posted on 03/31/2024 1:51:17 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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