RT.com – June 4, 2024
The level of Russia’s weapons and ammunition production since the start of the conflict with Ukraine has surpassed NATO’s expectations, the secretary general of the US-led military bloc has acknowledged.
Speaking to Sky News on Monday, Jens Stoltenberg was asked to comment on a study released last month by the consulting firm Bain & Company, which revealed that Moscow was generating artillery shells at more than three times the rate of all NATO members combined.
“It’s correct that Russia has been able to build up their defense industry faster than we expected, and it’s correct that NATO allies have spent more time than they should in ramping up our production,” Stoltenberg replied.
The reason for Western nations lagging behind is that “after the Cold War we actually built down our defense industry,” he explained.
However, according to Stoltenberg, the situation is now improving, with “all of the NATO allies… increasing the capacity to produce ammunition and weapons.”
There were “delays and gaps” in deliveries to Kiev in recent months, but “this is really changing and… the flow of ammunition into Ukraine has increased over the last weeks.”
Russia’s advances in Kharkov Region in recent weeks demonstrate “the need for us to step up our support” for Kiev, the secretary general said.
This support will continue even if former US President Donald Trump wins the election in November, because it is in the interests of both Europe and the US, Stoltenberg insisted. Trump has for months expressed skepticism on donating arms to Ukraine, arguing that the US should stop giving foreign aid unless it is structured as a loan, and insisting that the bulk of the support should come from Europe.
A Russian victory over Ukraine “will make the world more dangerous and us more vulnerable,” Stoltenberg warned.
The paper by Bain & Company said Russian factories are projected to make or refurbish approximately 4.5 million artillery rounds this year, compared to the West’s combined output of about 1.3 million rounds. The figures given by the firm also suggested that the average production cost of a 152mm shell for Moscow stands at $1,000, while the price of the 155mm rounds used by NATO is up to $4,000.
In late May, Russian President Vladimir Putin said domestic ammunition output had increased by a factor of 14, drone manufacturing has seen a four-fold surge, and the assembly of tanks and armored vehicles had risen by a factor of 3.5 since the outbreak of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022.
A lot of video titles are asking ‘Can the US beat Russia?’, but unless the US goes back for another pop at Afghanistan we shouldn’t even ask if the US can beat Afghanistan. Up ’til now, no they can’t. It’s like an amateur boxer who lost every bout hoping to turn pro because he thinks at that level of the game his style’s a winner.
“A Russian victory over Ukraine “will make the world more dangerous and us more vulnerable,” Stoltenberg warned.”
This fool is the biggest asshole this world has ever seen. His brain is not working, not one single cell of it.
He will continue to do the bidding of his Jewish overlords and bring the world into Armageddon rather than have peace, because no one gets rich with “peace.” We want RUSSIA torn to pieces, divided and conquered, plundered beyond recognition, YES YES YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Muahahahaha. Can you see the bloodshot Jewish eyes, the brain seething with hatred and greed, the cultish Jewish supremacy boiling in their brains ? These people are sick psychotic neurotic unfeeling filthy rat bastards who need to be completely vanquished off the face of this globe in order for all of us to live in peace and tranquility, which is in OUR nature to do. This bullshit and theft cannot continue. Communism, Marxism, Bolshevism, Naziism all depend on ONE thing ; T H E F T !! and no one steals better than a Jew. Just look at Palestine ! Just look at the genocide of the Ukrainian people going on right now. YES, that too is a genocide under the guise and excuse called “WAR.” It’s bullshit. Meanwhile Zelensky has multiple homes all over the world, millions in his bank accounts, and continues to make $11m/month !!!! Someone please wake me up from this nightmare we are living in.
Do you understand that Russia is SAVING THE WORLD right now ? They are sacrificing their men for us !!!!!!!!! Without Russia taking on these filthy slobbering bloodthirsty Jew demons, globalism would be bearing down on us with an even more frightening haste than what it already is, and Orwell’s boot stamping on your face would be much more keenly felt than it is even right now.
Support Russia !! They are not the bad guys ; they are the good guys. Everyone is pouring all their resources into Ukraine. Why ? Because Ukraine is the money laundering capital OF THE WORLD. It must never be allowed to be destroyed. It will be the undoing of the swamp creatures, their underworld financial dynasties destroyed.
Jews are the contagion of the world, the vile cancer that begs to be excised from human history. They WANT someone to take them down ! They WANT to be beaten !! They are begging for it !! But we will not do it because of a pile of slippers in Poland ????????? FUCK ME.
As Kurtz said in Apocalypse Now in his diary . . . “Drop the bomb ; exterminate them all.”
The 21st century is a repeat of an old Marlon Brando movie.
“I coulda been a contender. You shoulda looked out for me…”
On the Waterfront… a classic about the working man, the corrupt union boss, and the struggle to make a life. But also a story of an old USA, the one that don’t exist anymore.
Sad it came to this. Once we were a whole different world. But face it, diversity killed us and it can’t be stopped.
Guys from Germany, Ireland, the UK, US, are all loading videos on Youtube of how “enrichers” are destroying our old nations. It was planned and it’s being executed. Without a rebellion, we are cooked.
Many of these El-itists.. are the descendants of Franks… who are a rather interesting bunch of despotic tyrants and still are…(one often hears of the dark ages, and that’s because they were busy raizing to the ground and enslaving the entirety of Europe…)..
one often hears ignorant fools blathering about the ‘families’ or ‘the black nobility’..which pegs them as both ignorant and credulous…
I’ve said it hereabouts before….find an old portrait gallery and have a good look back at them all…these Franks..these Anne Franks from Olde Flanders…
For a start you could have a look at some medieaval portraiture of Norwegians for example…
Russia exceeded Napoleons + Hitlers expectations
and will always expectations of any megalomaniac !
Ukrainians seem to be idiots like the maniaco polakos .
to the western aspirants :
NOT ONE DROP OF BLOOD FOR JEW GLOBALISTS !
@FRANZ
for lone wolf assassines its never to late !
100 000 Kazinskies !
Doctor Strangelove would be warning about “the Artillery Gap, Mister President”