Danielle Sheridan, Joe Barnes – The Telegraph Oct 2, 2023
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.”
On Monday Mr Sunak was forced to insist that the UK’s commitment to Ukraine would not “waver” in the light of Mr Wallace’s comments.
“You will continue to see us provide substantial support,” his official spokesman told reporters.
Shapps adamant
Meanwhile Grant Shapps, the Defence Secretary, said Putin would be “foolish” to believe that internal political rows in the West were a sign that support for Ukraine was beginning to crack.
He suggested the possibility of Donald Trump winning the next US election would not necessarily result in the “worst-case scenario” of America cutting its support.
The UK has already committed 14 Challenger 2 tanks, M270 multiple-launch rocket systems, a heavy-lift drone and Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine since the start of the Russian onslaught.
Thousands of anti-tank weapons, short-range missiles and armoured vehicles have also been given by the UK to Ukraine.
‘Every tank we give is one less we have’
The military chief said there was no prospect of providing more British tanks to Ukraine.
“We’ve given away pretty much everything we can afford to give,” they added.
“The Challenger 2s that we have will become Challenger 3,” they said.
“We need them to upgrade them to become Challenger 3. Every tank we give away is one less that we have.”
The growing concerns over Western funding for Ukraine threatened to overshadow what was described as a “historic meeting” of EU foreign ministers in Kyiv.
Call for co-operation
Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, told them his country’s victory over its Russian occupiers “explicitly depends on our co-operation” after the US Congress passed an emergency spending bill that will cut off aid for Ukraine from next month, unless further agreements are approved on Capitol Hill.
The EU’s top foreign diplomat, Josep Borrell, insisted that the bloc’s support for Kyiv would be steadfast amid the upheaval in Washington.
“We are facing an existential threat. Ukrainians are fighting with all their courage and capabilities, and if we want them to succeed we must give them better weapons, and faster,” he told reporters in Kyiv before the gathering.
“I am hopeful that this decision is not final and that the US will continue to support Ukraine,” Mr Borrell added.
Brussels last month overtook the US in promised aid to Kyiv, with European commitments now twice as large, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German think tank that has been tracking funding for Ukraine.
Cracks in support
The shift came as the EU promised to provide Ukraine with €50 billion (£43 billion) in long-term aid until 2027.
The EU and Nato both have concerns about cracks in support as the conflict drags into its 20th month.
Pro-Russian populist Robert Fico won a national election in Slovakia, a member of both organisations, and promised not to send “another bullet” of military aid to Ukraine.
Hungary, whose leader celebrated Mr Fico’s victory, was also holding up a planned €500 million tranche of funding to help EU member states pay for weapons donations.
Its opposition has also dealt a blow to a planned €20 billion war chest from EU nations for Ukraine to buy weapons for the next four years, highlighting the challenges faced by the West.
There’s no real suspension of aid to UKraine. We can’t be sure of the exact numbers, but it is very unlikely that Biden has spent all funds already approved for UKraine, and 45 days won’t affect US assistance.
Many term the US (Nazi) system as the ‘uni-party’. I can’t it the one party state. By using the term uni-party, it peddles the myth that it’s two parties working together, when the truth is, it’s just one deep state controlled Nazi party.
We had this from Satan, ‘Read my lips, this is a New World Order (NWO) ‘. When GHW Bush said this, he didn’t mean this was literally the start of the NWO. No, what he meant was that this moment in time was an important step, like a ring growth spert, in the NWO Nazis quest to dominate the planet.
Virtually no one says NWO these days. All we hear is ‘the collective West’, NATO, Five Eyes, and Japan.
Personally, I don’t know how so called alternative media types who hang out on NaziTube uttering ‘collective West’, can live with themselves by selling their souls to Satan?
They’re all at it, with their red lines. They’ll call them liars, or say they aren’t in the real world, or as I pointed out yesterday, that The Duran presenters failed to point Trailer Trash Tim in the right direction, on why UKraine is important to the US and UK. Complete silence, when the question was screaming at them to answer. Redacted is just as bad, they also have their red lines, just like Micheal Moore.
Nazi Britain hasn’t run out of arms or munitions. The likely truth, they’ve used all their old stocks made prior to 1970. Nearly all the equipment sent to UKraine is either very old, or has been stripped of its hi tech components. The Russians can defeat the majority of Nazi UKs Stormshadow missiles, and this illustrates just how effective Russian defences will be during a nuclear attack. Russia want even switch on its best defenses until an attack is launched. So far, it looks like Russia will intercept over 90% of Nazi nukes, and that’s 90% of the nukes that actually manage to launch, because it’s unlikely that Amerikan Nazi nukes are in A1 condition, and they are very old. British nuke submarine fixed with superglue, and this story is the tip of the iceberg.
If the Royal Navy didn’t send a single frigate to sea for an entire year, then this reveals the UK Nazi state bankruptcy. Lord Frost suggests lifting the retirement age to 75. They are beyond desperate and Lord Frost doesn’t have a clue about economics.
Swords to ploughshares by other means.
1. The notion of converting military forces, technologies, or ideas into peaceful purposes. A shortening of the phrase “beat swords into ploughshares” from the Bible. (Spelled “plowshare” in American English.) Primarily heard in UK.
The program aims to collect disused or surplus military equipment and put them to use in public health clinics in developing countries—swords to ploughshares, if you will.
2. By extension, the abstention from destructive activities, such as war and violence, in favor of peaceful, constructive activities.
We must adopt a swords-to-ploughshares mentality if our children are ever to inherit a world worth living in.
“Britain has ‘run out of arms…..”
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this world will be always for power grabers
agression . its the JHWH agression sleeping
in everyone of us humans .therefore its hell
and a prisonplanet .
even on the pacific paradise islands there
were wars before white man came and there
will again be wars to limit the overgrowing
population on the islands .
Ratchild: Only supply what is needed to keep the war going. We could easily give them abundant war material they need to win, but our idea of winning is different than the Ukrainian people’s idea of victory. Drag out the staged coordinated war for years between our Commie agents Putin & Zelensky. Still too much quality Germanic stock in Ukraine.
“Britain has ‘run out of arms to send to Ukraine’” … You don’t say? Well then they’ll have to send a bunch of cannon fodder, such as everyone in the treasonous cartel masquerading as government and every “banker” in The City. Surely Britain could at least spare a few thousand more rifles and parachutes to air-drop them all in. In fact, the parachutes wouldn’t even be necessary. Just shove them all out over a drop-zone at 15,000 feet.
Carl Jones–Nazis are supposed to be about White people, and not Blacks, Jews, Mongols etc, but they always kill White people, and so do all our governments, so only your Commies are in charge anywhere