{"id":261792,"date":"2022-11-30T08:49:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T08:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=261792"},"modified":"2022-12-01T06:42:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T06:42:59","slug":"nato-running-out-of-weapons-for-kiev-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=261792","title":{"rendered":"NATO running out of weapons for Kiev regime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drago Bosnic \u2013 Aletho News Nov 29, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Months before Russia launched its counteroffensive against NATO\u2019s crawling encroachment on its western borders, the political West started sending massive amounts of weapons and munitions to the Kiev regime. Initially, the deliveries primarily included tens of thousands of man-portable missiles for various purposes, including ATGM (anti-tank guided missiles) and MANPADS (man-portable air defense systems) weapons. Even then, it already became clear that NATO\u2019s stocks couldn\u2019t provide enough weapons for a long-term conflict, while it would take years to ramp up deliveries by expanding production lines. This was further exacerbated when the Kiev regime started asking for more advanced weapons and systems amid mounting battlefield losses.<\/p>\n

Many NATO member states were (and still are) forced to send weapons and munitions which were already in short supply for their own militaries. This is particularly true when it comes to former Warsaw Pact member states of the belligerent alliance, many of whom were forced to give up their Soviet-era weapons. Old NATO powers promised to send their weapons to replace these older arsenals of the alliance\u2019s Eastern European members, although this process proved to be quite slow. On the other hand, the Kiev regime\u2019s ever-growing demands are adding additional pressure. As NATO\u2019s current production capacity simply cannot meet these requests, the Neo-Nazi junta\u2019s battlefield prospects look grimmer by the day. \u201cIf this does not happen, we won\u2019t be able to win \u2014 as simple as that,\u201d Dmytro Kuleba, the Kiev regime chief diplomat warned<\/a> during a recent meeting.<\/p>\n

On November 26,\u00a0the New York Times<\/a> <\/em>reported that approximately two-thirds of NATO members have effectively run out of weapons by sending them to the Kiev regime. Even the more prominent alliance members with big MICs (Military Industrial Complexes) are having major issues keeping up with the Kiev regime\u2019s demands. According to an unnamed NATO official, 20 out of 30 member states are \u201cpretty tapped out\u201d in terms of additional weapon and munition supplies to the Neo-Nazi junta. While members such as the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Italy still have the ability to arm the Kiev regime with basic weapons, even they are refraining from sending specific weapons systems requested by the junta.<\/p>\n

The demands include various types of strategically impactful weapons, including surface-to-surface guided missiles such as ATACMS, a weapon with a 300 km engagement range. The US officially rejected such demands, supposedly \u201cout of concern\u201d the missiles could be used to attack targets deep within Russia. However, the more likely reason is that the Pentagon is fully aware of the fact that it would take years to replace its current stocks of such missiles and it\u2019s not very keen on expending them all without certain replacement. The same is true for many other types of weapons and systems which are equally needed to maintain optimal military power.<\/p>\n

Artillery is especially important in this regard. As soon as the Kiev regime started burning through its Soviet-made stocks, many of which were also destroyed in Russia\u2019s long-range strikes, NATO was forced to provide both artillery pieces and shells. As the alliance\u2019s post-(First) Cold War doctrine shifted toward a more interventionist style of warfare, artillery became less important, resulting in ever-shrinking stocks.<\/p>\n

According to various reports, the enormous demand for artillery munitions is putting tremendous pressure on NATO members trying to meet the Kiev regime\u2019s requests. At present, the Neo-Nazi junta forces are firing at least five thousand shells per day, but the US, by far the most heavily armed NATO member state, can only produce 15,000 shells per month. Camille Grand, a defense expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told the New York Times<\/em> that \u201c[a] day in Ukraine is a month or more in Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the soaring demand is extremely profitable for the Military Industrial Complexes of the political West. \u201cTaking into account the realities of the ongoing war in Ukraine and the visible attitude of many countries aimed at increased spending in the field of defense budgets, there is a real chance to enter new markets and increase export revenues in the coming years,\u201d\u00a0according to Sebastian Chwalek<\/a>, CEO of Poland\u2019s PGZ, a corporation that owns a number of weapons manufacturers. However, the US MIC has been experiencing by far the largest windfall in this regard. Arms industry giants such as Lockheed Martin and Raytheon already made billions in the opening months of the Ukrainian crisis.<\/p>\n

Back in May, during a visit to a Lockheed Martin plant, US President Joe Biden stated that the US would ramp up weapons production, but that \u201cthis would not come cheap.\u201d However, most US officials and experts agree that this is not only a question of funding, as it will take years to increase production in order to meet the current demand, which is expected to grow exponentially in the foreseeable future. \u201cIf you want to increase the production capability of 155 mm shells. It\u2019s going to be probably four to five years before you start seeing them come out the other end,\u201d according to Mark F. Cancian, a former White House weapons strategist and current senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.<\/p>\n

The US and NATO have already stated that they\u2019re committed to fighting a long proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. In October,\u00a0Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin openly admitted this is the plan that Washington DC and its satellites have<\/a>. He said that the US and NATO would \u201cboost Ukraine\u2019s defensive capabilities for pressing urgent needs and for the long term.\u201d However, as the US is profiteering from the crisis, especially at the EU\u2019s expense, the bloc is becoming increasingly frustrated,\u00a0a feeling even the most senior officials in Brussels are now ready to express more freely than ever before<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Drago Bosnic is an independent geopolitical and military analyst.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The US and NATO have already stated that they\u2019re committed to fighting a long proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. However, Ukraine could well run out of weapons and ammunition long before the West achieves its objective in defeating Russia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":249441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261793,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261792\/revisions\/261793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/249441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}