Ukrainian soldiers fire in the recently retaken city of Kupiansk, in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. The United States director of national intelligence said Dec. 3 that Russian forces have severely depleted their munitions stockpiles, particularly precision-guided weapons, and doesn't have the capacity to replace them fast enough. (Kostiantyn Liberov/AP)
CNBC: U.S. intel chief says Russia is using up ammunition in Ukraine faster than it can replace it
Russian forces in Ukraine are burning through ammunition faster than the country’s defense industry can replace it, U.S. National Intelligence Director Avril Haines said Saturday.
Russia is using up ammunition “quite quickly,” prompting Moscow to look to other countries for help, including North Korea, Haines told NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell at a panel at the Reagan Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California.
Asked how fast Russia was using up ammunition, Haines said: “I don’t think I can give you precise numbers in this forum. But quite quickly. I mean, it’s really pretty extraordinary.”
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Update: Russia burning through ammunition in Ukraine at ‘extraordinary’ rate (Defense News)
WNU editor: Russia's economy was shifted a few months ago into a war time economy. I have no doubts that Russia will be able to replenish their supplies. Missiles included.
As for what the US can supply. I learned today that Ukraine has already gone through 13 years of Stinger missiles being produced. So yes, I concur with US intel chief Avril Haines that the US has a problem .... We haven’t got this figured out just yet’: Pentagon, industry struggle to arm Ukraine (Politico).
The traitors currently occupying much of the Western political system have depleted the West of energy, strategic resource mining, have offshored strategic industry (pharma), have censored us, labeled us all terrorists for daring to raise our voices - which is legally protected in most Western countries, and now deplete us of military assets.
ReplyDeleteAt what point do we hang them? Asking for a friend.
But seriously. We have hung people for far, far, faaaaaaaar less than what these demons have done to our societies and economies.
It is LEGAL to hang traitors. After a trial, it is legal. Actually they deserve it too, because they haven't just betrayed us, but killed scores of people in the process - abroad - to discredit our cultures - and at home.
They are demons. In human shape and form. With eyes and mouths. But their actions and plans for all of us are pure demonic.
It is simple really. Fuckercrats have to decide, if they want to spend more on defense and less on welfare vote buying.
ReplyDeleteIf they reshore businesses and lower taxes on businesses more people would be off of welfare. It is not the general economy that make American businesses uncompetitive rather it is the tx regime that does.
America needs economic envelope protection to protect Americans form Democrats committing murder-suicide on a massive scale.
Every shortfall Kiev is experiencing must be projected upon the enemy. They're running out of ammo, they're on their 15th wave of mobilization, they're losing political legitimacy, they're brutalizing locals and the political opposition, their economy is about to crumble, etc.
ReplyDeleteThe Ukrainian propaganda system is very oldschool. It's effective within the interior of the country where every avenue in the information space, including social media, is under regime control. However it looks almost cartoonish when the Kiev spun narratives spill out into the global marketplace of dialog. Doubly so when US/NATO officials begin repeating it with an official stamp of authority.
Baghdad Bob on steroids.
Agreed. Although that same media space prevails in homes in the US simply because they consume no journalism other than what may abut their preferred programming.
DeleteNo wnu they won't be able to replace missiles, war footing or not as they dint have access to key components. These weapons take months if not years to build not weeks ..
ReplyDeleteEver consider that China and North Korea might be helping them?
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ReplyDeleteWhat is so illuminating for me is seemingly how unprepared we in the states are for a war with a large and well stocked opponent that doesn't go nuclear.
Poking around on the internet the last decade has left me less surprised, but still shaking my head. Ike was so right.
DeleteYou are correct. Not one wants to spend the money on munitions. Instead buy an air plane for over 600M. Or give 800 mil or 1B to the Ukies. Nuts
ReplyDeleteTop Senate Republicans are distancing themselves from Donald Trump in growing numbers after the former president’s call to suspend the Constitution — though there’s no sign it will lead them to actively oppose his 2024 presidential campaign.
ReplyDeleteIn his latest of an ongoing series of calls to be reinstated as president, Trump on Saturday falsely cited “massive fraud” in his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden before calling for a “termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution” in order to reinstate him as president or hold a new election. Many election officials, including Trump’s own former attorney general, Bill Barr, have affirmed that no voter fraud occurred on a scale significant enough to affect Biden’s victory over Trump.
Barr did not quite say that.
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Fred triggered at 7:21
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