I have said repeatedly over the course of this year that the Ukraine war can not possibly be sustained by the West. It is becoming more and more obvious that this is the case. Even the whores in the corporate media can’t ignore the reality.
RT:
The fighting in Ukraine has “exposed flaws in US strategic planning” and “revealed significant gaps” in the US and NATO military industrial base, the Washington Post reported on Friday. As Kiev’s forces consume more ammunition than the West can produce, the Pentagon seeks to cope by training them to fight more like Americans.
“Stocks of many key weapons and munitions are near exhaustion, and wait times for new production of missiles stretches for months and, in some cases, years,” the Post noted in a piece detailing how the US has funneled some $20 billion in military aid to Kiev this year. Only $6 billion of that has been in new weapons contracts, while the rest came from the Pentagon stockpiles, the outlet added.
The US military-industrial complex can produce about 14,000 rounds of ammunition for the 155-mm howitzers per-day, the Post quoted US Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, while Ukrainian forces go through about 6,000 a day during heavy fighting.
The US military-industrial complex is “in pretty poor shape right now,” Seth Jones of the Washington-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) told the Post.
“We are really low… and we’re not even fighting,” Jones said, adding that in scenarios where the US is facing China or Russia in a conventional conflict, “we don’t make it past four or five days in a war game before we run out of precision missiles.”
Not only has the economic war against Russia totally failed, but the military war is failing. They have no way of producing the ammunition and equipment they need to sustain it.
Despite this, they just keep wasting resources on this unwinnable war. Nobody inside the system wants to admit that this effort is failing.
Here’s retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor’s latest analysis of the situation. He’s one of only a small handful of former military people providing an honest assessment of what’s actually going on.
