Hypotheses on lack of ammo are ridiculous. On average, Westerners were donating no more than a tenth of their yearly defense budgets to Ukraine. They're not loaded up to the brim, but there are more than enough supplies left to meet the needs of both, the Ukrainian and Israeli war machines.
No, your claim that there's more than enough is ridiculous, especially when they're using ancient cluster shells and it's been known for months that they emptied the middle east stockpile they had in Israel.
Britain has run out of defence equipment to donate to Ukraine and other countries should step in and shoulder more of the burden, a senior military chief has said.
The comments come after Ben Wallace revealed that he asked Rishi Sunak to spend £2.3 billion more on support for Ukraine before he resigned as defence secretary last month.
Mr Wallace warned that the UK had been overtaken by Germany as the biggest European military donor to Ukraine as he called for the 50 per cent increase on funding that the UK has committed so far.
The Western alliance has suffered a series of blows in recent days, with support for Ukraine dropped from a US stop-gap budget bill, election success for a pro-Russian party in Slovakia and rows between Poland and Kyiv over grain supplies.
On Monday, the Kremlin claimed that Western fatigue with the war “will grow”. The White House replied that Vladimir Putin was wrong to think he could outlast the pro-Kyiv alliance.
‘We’ve given away all we can afford’
Last night a senior military source told The Telegraph that the onus should not be on the UK to provide the “billions” Mr Wallace has called for.
“Giving billions more doesn’t mean giving billions of British kit,” they said, adding that the UK had a role to play in “encouraging other nations to give more money and weapons”.
“We’ve given away just about as much as we can afford,” they added.
“We will continue to source equipment to provide for Ukraine, but what they need now is things like air defence assets and artillery ammunition and we’ve run dry on all that.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/02/britain-run-out-of-arms-send-to-ukraine-says-military-chief/
- The weapon depots are so empty that multiple defense chiefs (of NATO) are calling it an emergency
- Multiple NATO defense chiefs have recently held a NATO secret meeting in Norway to discuss a critical lack of ammunition within the alliance.
- They point out that they're unable to buy more than what they used to buy because what they usually buy has increased in price because the production has barely increased compared to the demand
https://nyheder.tv2.dk/udland/2023-09-16-forsvarschefer-advarer-om-kritisk-mangel-paa-ammunition-ekspert-forudser-flere-konsekvenser
Between the country's tiny, old air force, ancient T-64s, and a continuing shortage of artillery shells and infantry vehicles, it often falls to infantry to hold the line against Russian probing attacks and occasional assaults, supported by overwhelming artillery and huge numbers of drones.
Russia's massive artillery advantage throughout the country and its predominance of drones and electronic warfare on this part of the front, don't help either.
These explanations make sense but they do nothing to cheer up the men going into battle.
https://kyivindependent.com/new-brigade-bears-heavy-brunt-of-russias-onslaught-in-kharkiv-oblast/
Here, we are fighting a war without air support or artillery cover,
https://archive.ph/WRREJ
"You need numbers; you need force numbers. In the West, we have reduced our military; we have reduced our stocks. But quantity matters; mass matters," he told the Journal.
https://www.businessinsider.com/western-armor-not-designed-for-intense-conflict-like-ukraine-analyst-2023-9
The Arab-Israeli war is a historic victory for the Zionists and the multipolar world order and a colossal loss for Europe, America, and Ukraine. Mossad didn't fail to notify the IDF and the Israeli citizens of the imminent attack by Hamas; Israeli leadership initiated it. Now, the world not only approves of the idea of ethnic cleansing but also encourages them to do so.
Yeah sure, that's why they lost their best in the first hours and now there's reports of fighting around their nuclear power plant which apparently was done by paragliding forces who are storming their military base there.
They have a green light for the invasion of neighboring countries, thus finally establishing Greater Israel, which is supposed to become a safe hub for the hi-tech industry and the epicenter of the three-corridors project.
Yeah sure, they got the green light from who? Like they have one allie in the region.
"Refugees" will be deported to Europe. Furthermore, Ukraine will be held responsible for arming Hamas and Hezbollah. AIPAC will force the White House to change the policy and give up on aiding Ukraine militarily "because the weapons might fall in the hands of the Israeli enemies, mainly Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas."
They don't have anything to give, which is why they had to ship the small arms captured from Iran over. Drones are cheap and Israel will become the next western wunderwaffe bonfire.
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