The Financial Times is reporting that the United States doesn’t have enough ballistic missiles to support the Ukraine. They also questioned if these missiles would even make any difference in the war.
RT:
The US is not in a position to supply Ukraine with tactical ballistic missiles in quantities that could help turn the tide in its counteroffensive, the Financial Times has reported. The British newspaper also cited several experts who question whether this type of weaponry could help Kiev achieve a major breakthrough at all.
In its article on Sunday, the FT, citing unnamed American officials, claimed that the US simply does not produce enough tactical ballistic missiles, those which Ukraine has been asking for, to “make a significant difference on the battlefield.”
In addition, according to the FT report, another consideration preventing the shipment of such projectiles is that such action could lead to a further escalation of the conflict with Russia.
Samuel Charap, a senior political scientist at Rand Corporation, told the media outlet that Ukraine’s insistence on laying its hands on long-range missiles is misplaced. The expert stressed that rockets like these are “no magic wands” and are unlikely to solve the hurdles of minefields and entrenched Russian defenses that Kiev’s forces are currently facing.
These missiles if supplied would definitely not make any difference. The Ukraine doesn’t have the personnel to win this war. Anybody with any rudimentary knowledge of the situation was saying this since early 2022.
Russia has won the war. There is all this talk that there’s a stalemate etc.. but this is just narrative spinning. Russia has taken huge amounts of territory and they are likely to take Odessa and Kharkov in the near future. There’s nothing the West can do to stop them unless they want to either commit NATO forces to the fight or go nuclear and there is no guarantee of victory with either of these options. NATO is not equipped to take on a major power like Russia in a ground war.
