Tara Copp AP – Navy Times Apr 11, 2024
The top general for U.S. forces in Europe told Congress Wednesday that Ukraine will be outgunned 10 to 1 by Russia within a matter of weeks if Congress does not find a way to approve sending more ammunition and weapons to Kyiv soon.
The testimony from Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli, head of U.S. European Command, and Celeste Wallander, assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, comes as Congress enters pivotal weeks for voting for aid for Ukraine, but there’s no guarantee funding will be improved in time.
“They are now being outshot by the Russian side 5 to 1. So the Russians fire five times as many artillery shells at the Ukrainians than the Ukrainians are able to fire back. That will immediately go to 10 to 1 in a matter of weeks,” Cavoli said. “We’re not talking about months. We’re not talking hypothetically.”
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has been trying to find a way forward for the bill that would fund new rounds of munitions production at U.S. firms to enable the Pentagon to then rush more munitions to Ukraine. Johnson is trying to bring it to the floor for a House vote, but he is facing concerns from members who cite domestic needs, including border security.
The speaker is also facing a threat to his leadership role from his far-right flank by Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene who has called for his ouster over the issue.
While the political battles on Capitol Hill continue, the dire battlefield situation in Ukraine worsens.
Cavoli told the lawmakers that in this conflict, the U.S. flow of 155mm artillery shells has been a lifeline. “The biggest killer on the battlefield is artillery. In most conflicts, but in this one definitely. And should Ukraine run out, they would run out because we stopped supplying — because we supply the lion’s share of that,” Cavoli said.
Russia’s own production of missiles has ramped up and can launch large-scale attacks every few days. If Ukraine’s air defense stocks run out, “those attacks would absolutely cripple the economy, and the civil society as well as the military of Ukraine if they were not defended against without a U.S. provision of interceptors,” Cavoli said.
“Their ability to defend their terrain that they currently hold and their airspace would fade rapidly, will fade rapidly without the supplemental,” Cavoli said.
U.S. Army leaders offered similar dire warnings to the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee later in the day, saying that the lack of the supplemental is a critical problem for both Ukraine and the U.S. Army.
“The side that can’t shoot back, loses, and at this point Ukraine is really starting to be pressed to be able to shoot back. So I am very concerned,” said Army Secretary Christine Wormuth. “We saw Ukraine lose some territory a couple of months ago. And I think there is a real danger … that the Russians could have a breakthrough somewhere in the line.”
Gen. Randy George, chief of staff of the Army added that the funding is needed to help send Ukraine long-range weapons and air defense systems so they can defend their critical infrastructure and their troops on the front lines.
At the same time, Wormuth and Gen. Randy George, chief of staff of the Army, said that unless Congress approves the supplemental soon, the Army won’t have enough money to bring home the troops currently serving in Europe, or funding to train units in the U.S.
“We don’t have the transportation money to have them redeploy,” said Wormuth, referring to Army units that are deployed across Europe. “We don’t have the transportation money to send units to backfill them.”
She and George said they also need the money to continue sending units to the national training centers. to avoid outright cancellation of the training rotations, Wormuth said they can try to reduce participation or shrink their size.
“But those are the kinds of hard choices we’re looking at. If we don’t see the supplementals come across,” she said.
If Kyiv falls, it could imperil Ukraine’s Baltic NATO member neighbors and potentially drag U.S. troops into a prolonged European war.
At a Capitol Hill press conference on Wednesday, Johnson said: “House members are continuing to actively discuss our options on a path forward.”
“It’s a very complicated matter at a very complicated time. The clock is ticking on it, and everyone here feels the urgency of that, but what’s required is that you reach consensus on it, and that’s what we’re working on,” Johnson said.
Michigan Democrat Rep. Elissa Slotkin urged a vote.
“Speaker Johnson has a choice to make. I accept that it’s a complicated choice. I accept that he’s at risk of losing his job over that choice,” Slotkin said.
Why do I get the feeling that peabrain Mike Johnson will vote enthusiastically for total WHO control over our lives and nation?
“Ukraine will soon be outgunned without help”…. TOP Europe general says
“SOON” be outgunned??? LMFAO!!!🤣
Like a gnat ‘spoilt for choice’ in a nudist-colony, it’s difficult to know where to start lampooning these clueless idiotic ZATO “Generals”…
so suffice it to say, theyre even more FANTASY-BASED and more FCKED-UP than even I thought possible… in my wildest dreams!! 😂
I have been asked to share this.
Have a new found respect for Liz Truss- it doesn’t make sense she was such a complete eejit on Russia –
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THE RISE AND FALL OF LIZ TRUSS
Her 50 days in office was abruptly terminated but why ?
She said quote ” we have more than 500 quangos in Britain and they run everything. ”She went on to list the Environment Agency, Office for Budget Responsibility, the Judicial Appointments commission and in particular The Bank of England .
“There’s a whole bunch of people – and I describe them as the economic establishment – who fundamentally don’t want the status quo to change because they’re doing quite fine out of it. They don’t really care about the prospects of the average person in Britain and they didn’t want things to change and they didn’t want their power taken away.” “Now people are joining the civil service who are essentially activists,” Truss said. “They might be transexual activists, they might be Global warming extremists but they are now having a voice within the civil service in a way I don’t think was true 30 or 40 years ago. So we just have a wholly new problem and, frankly, a hundred political appointees doesn’t even touch the sides in terms of dealing with them.
It appears Truss wanted to see more homes and jobs open to UK people, not imported foreign nationals, this upset the far left, as did her views to stop chopping the sexual bits off children in sex change operations. Truss took office after winning a Conservative party leadership contest to replace the disgraced Boris Johnson. Her plan to spur economic growth with a mini-budget containing £45bn ($54bn) in unfunded tax cuts – including an income tax reduction for the highest earners, upset the bankers, Most taxation goes to pay for Rothschild banking loans, and her desire to cut immigration and a clean out of far left wing activists and fifth columnists coupled to a slowing down of paying for Rothschild loans meant the bank of England said she had to go.
Her book ” Ten years to save the west” explains her battle with the deep state, e.g. Rothschilds zionist lobby, and is available shortly
Other politicians have tried to take on the zionist lobby and its bank of England, such as Enoch Powell Oswald Mosely George Orwell and Wiliam Joyce, all have failed.
Truss gives the UK 10 years before being swallowed up totally into the bankers communist system, plans under Tony Blair already exist to break England up into 8 regional zones each run by a far left Czar.
The continual Betrayal of the British people, accelerated this century with fudged up reasons for 2 world wars, have ensured the British people will not be tricked
into a third world war.
If I were in Ukraine, I’d rather live under Putin than die under Zelensky. Zelensky is genociding his own people.
The Ukraine debacle won’t continue without arms from America. The Israeli genocide won’t continue without arms from America either. Is America now the merchant of death?
liz truss
wow that was bloody good
@GRB re “Have a new found respect for Liz Truss..”
Are you aware that this is the same DUMB FKIN TWAT that not only took credit for blowing up Nordstream II – and DESTROYING Europe! – with her infamous text-message of “It’s Done!” to that little fkin faggot Blinken..
but ALSO opined – after she’d been promoted from Tea Lady to ZOGUK’s factotum PM – that she’d have NO PROBLEM “pushing the button” to launch WW3… and destroying Life On Earth in the process??????
FCK that DUMB FKIN C*NT!! Hope she dies of syphillis in her fkin pie-hole!
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Europe’s occupiers say there is an artillery gap. How did the occupiers get here? Because Russia seemed to be Communist, but the occupier says it isn’t, since 1990, so they have overstayed by thirty-four years