Photo Source: Official Twitter page of German chancellor Olaf Scholz
The Hill: Germany warns against arms race as Ukraine pushes for missiles, jets
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is warning against a race to arm Ukraine with high-powered weapons as Ukraine ramps up its calls for fighter jets and long-range missiles.
Scholz engineered a breakthrough with President Biden to send modern tanks to Ukraine earlier this month, but has said fighter jets is a non-starter.
“I can only advise against entering into a constant competition to outbid each other when it comes to weapons systems,” Scholz said in an interview with German news outlet Tagesspiegel.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky issued pleas over the weekend for long-range missiles and fighter jets as he seeks to strengthen the country’s air defense. But Germany has insisted the country will not be equipping Ukraine with the warplanes.
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WNU Editor: I understand the German Chancellor's concerns. But what I find so astounding about the recent announcements from the West to ship weapons and ammunition to Ukraine is how small it actually is, and the time to deliver them.
Case in point. The US will only be able to send Ukraine 31 Abrams tanks later this year?!?!?! You would think that with the defense budget that the US has, sending 31 tanks could be done much faster.
And then there is artillery. This conflict is primarily a war being conducted by artillery. Making promises to send Ukraine about 90,000 artillery shells is pathetically small. This is what the Russian army uses up in 5 days.
So are "high-powered" weapons the only option left. F-16s and long-range missiles that can strike deep in Crimea and Russia? It looks like the answer is yes, because there is nothing else left.
"what I find so astounding about the recent announcements from the West to ship weapons and ammunition to Ukraine is how small it actually is, and the time to deliver them. "
ReplyDeleteJoe Biden, Ron Klain, Austin (or as Joe Bite-Me likes to say: "the guy who runs that outfit over there.", Milley and others are idiots. I have said so for 2 years.
Physiologically their brains except for Bite-Me might be fine, but they don't use them other than to acquire power and feather their nests by brow nosing.
Ukraine is finished. Done. Not yet, but it's only a matter of time. The West has supplied them with just enough to help them decimate the Russian military and deplete their stocks. But U.S./NATO stocks have been depleted as well. There is not much else we can do other than escalate the conflict by sending high-end weapons, and I can't see that ending well for anyone. Besides, ultimately it would make little difference, since Russia can absorb far more punishment than Ukraine. Time the West to wind it down and try to find other ways to keep Russia from replenishing what it has lost.
ReplyDeleteI hope you are right.
ReplyDeleteMy assessment is that this will break down into a guerrilla war that will last for years. That is what the West wants. Death by a thousand papercuts...weaken the Russians and keep them weak and busy with a multiple of problems.
They are evil.
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ReplyDeleteIf you are right, why not use your name namby pamby?
ReplyDeleteWhy not use my name, when I am right? Because liberals have been known to bomb houses of people discussing things online who do not have a liberal approved message. They have also weaponized the federal bureaucracy. Louis Lerner was not a one-off.
ReplyDeleteYip coming to an end thank God sanity has prevailed and we will soon be seeing the end to this conflict.
ReplyDeleteSome liberals Sweden put a nice bomb through someone's mail slot.
ReplyDeleteSome liberal Swedish journalists and techies though it was nice to deanonymized people not on their side and did it by the hundreds (Gravitar).
Lib fuckers have literally gone after supreme court justices with the intent to kill.
Lib fuckers target businesses with boycotts and lawsuits.
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Advise from a combat ineffective state. Meh.
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