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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
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>>2404756https://thewarhorse.org/weapons-stockpile-q-and-a/
<Q: What do we know about the current state of the U.S. weapons stockpile?
>There is no hard answer, Cancian said, because the Department of Defense does not publish numbers of the current weapons stockpiles, “so that has to be inferred.” However, it is possible to make some rough calculations. Right now, he said, “there’s no question that the stockpile of certain weapons is low.”
>This could be a security risk in some scenarios, Cancian said, like if a prolonged conflict on the Korean Peninsula or with China emerged.
>The Pentagon disputed a report earlier this month in The Guardian that the U.S. has about 25% of the Patriot missile interceptors it needs after tapping stockpiles for operations in the Middle East in recent months.
>Cancian said the broad categories of weapons from the U.S. stockpile that are probably low now include artillery ammunition, artillery systems, rocket systems, air defense munitions, and anti-tank munitions. “Those are areas where DOD has invested money to increase the production rate. That’s an indicator that those are especially stressed.”
<Q: How long has this been an issue?
>The U.S. has been sending weapons to Ukraine for nearly three years, and has been sending weapons to other countries as well, including Israel.
>But not all the weapons that we send to Ukraine come directly from our stockpile. Cancian said there are two mechanisms by which we send military equipment to Ukraine: drawdowns of the current stockpile and manufacturing of new equipment. The drawdown method is faster, and Ukraine can get the weapons in about six months.
>Cancian says that DOD has a threshold for drawdowns, however. When that threshold is reached, the rest of the promised weapons must be manufactured first, then sent to Ukraine. This process takes much longer — up to 42 months.
<Q: How did the current level of the weapons stockpile contribute to the brief pause in weapons shipments to Ukraine at the beginning of July?
>Cancian said two factors caused the pause, which only lasted a few days. The first was the low level of certain items in the U.S. weapons stockpile.
>The other factor was a “shift in strategy,” which he attributes to Elbridge Colby, the current Under Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Department of Defense. “He regards Ukraine as a distraction, and every weapon that you send to Ukraine is one weapon that could help us in a potential conflict with China,” Cancian said.
>On July 13, the Wall Street Journal reported that a memo Colby wrote about depleted U.S. stockpiles and shared with DOD Secretary Pete Hegseth may have contributed to the pause.
>However, the Associated Press reported that this strategy shift caught the President off guard, and weapons shipments to Ukraine soon resumed.
<Q: How will the new weapons shipments to Ukraine impact the US weapons stockpile dilemma?
>The President recently pledged multiple Patriot missile defense systems worth billions of dollars to Ukraine, with NATO countries footing the bill.
>It is unclear where exactly these systems are coming from, Cancian said. Some may already exist and just need to be shipped, while others might still need to be built by the manufacturer, Raytheon Technologies.
>In addition to the U.S., 18 countries currently have Patriot systems, and others are buying them, including Germany, Switzerland, Poland, and Morocco.
<Q: How will the Patriot missiles help Ukraine turn the tide of the war with Russia?
>Cancian said that while these surface-to-air missile interception systems are very useful, “they are just one piece of an air defense system that Ukraine needs help with.”
>Patriot is a high-end system that costs about $3 million a shot and specifically shoots down ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and aircraft, Cancian said. These are extremely deadly threats, but they are only about 5% of the air defense threats that Ukraine faces, he said.
>The other 95% come from low-flying Kamikaze drones, which the Patriot system can’t defend against. So are the Patriot missile systems “a game changer? No,” Cancian said. “There’s no such thing as a game changer.” The Ukrainian army still needs other supplies, including ammunition, trucks, and medical supplies to keep fighting against Russia. https://www.thomasfazi.com/p/slovenias-short-lived-nato-rebellion?
>I’ve written for Compact about Slovenia’s decision to hold a referendum on NATO membership, how this sent Euro-Atlantic elites into a panic, causing the referendum to be cancelled shortly after, and why, despite Slovenia’s about-turn, a massive ideological taboo has nonetheless been broken — and may inspire others:
<[The referendum] risked igniting a political earthquake extending well beyond Slovenia’s borders. Biljana Vankovska, professor of political science and international relations at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Macedonia, wrote that a NATO referendum “could shatter taboos not just within Slovenia, but across Europe… Sometimes it takes a small state to shift the scales of public opinion across an entire continent”.
<With so much on the line, it’s not surprising that Slovenia’s moment of dissent was extinguished just as quickly as it flared up. On July 19, Parliament voted 44-7 to cancel both proposed referendums, with most members of Parliament abstaining. […]
<Still, the damage was done. The fact that such referendums were proposed at all suggests the first visible crack in NATO’s ideological fortress: A member state’s government publicly acknowledged that loyalty to the alliance is no longer beyond question. The episode may have ended, but the taboo has been broken.
<This reflects a deeper crisis across Europe. As NATO’s aggressive geopolitical ambitions grow, they increasingly collide with democratic principles and public opinion. Polls in Slovenia show only 52 percent support for NATO—down sharply from the 66 percent who backed accession in 2003. EU and NATO elites are pursuing a strategy of endless expansion, militarization and confrontation with powers like Russia, China and Iran—despite widespread public opposition to war and rearmament across Europe. As the gap between elite ambition and democratic legitimacy widens, repression becomes the only glue holding the project together. >>2405373Yes Russia abstained and felt its cooperation secured by the reset was exploited by American unilateralism. Russia did not battle the American invasion of Iraq, Russia was better served by joining with Europeans in opposing it.
These are signs Russia hopelessly favored diplomacy rather than zionism.
>>2404861>they manage to be a complete anarshit libshit mess (YPG), feudalist tribalists (peshmerga), bootlickers of zionist imperialism, bootlickers of NATO imperialism and bootlickers of neo-ottoman imperialism at the same time.Well, it's not one entity. I don't have particular sympathy for most of them.
I don't believe the YPG is very anarchist in essence or in practice.
Army operations do not lend themselves well to a flat hierarchy or such ("anti-authority") in the first place. But I don't really take this sectarian stuff seriously no more and know dick about Rojava or whatever it's called now.
I personally prefer the state form in the present moment. They say you can't fight fire with fire (btw that is not correct, in actual firefighting) but I see no way out here. Your enemy has the largest army in the world. Having any chance at survival necessitates a "well-regulated militia" at minimum. Anything else seems like delusion to me.
But of course there should be a plethora of tactics etc.
>>2404633>le stalemate copenope, ukraine is losing and will lose
(and there's nothing you can do about it)
>>2405473>Did Trump resume weapons shipments? He never stopped. Elon still providing nonstop real time data to the Ukrainians with Starlink and Russian retards think he's independent simply because he sent his dad to Moscow to suck up to them.
>how badly is Ukraine still losingUkraine is still winning actually. Russia still has less territory than it did in the first month of the war.
>>2405502>Ukraine is still winning actually. Russia still has less territory than it did in the first month of the war.It's a miracle.
>He never stoppedA couple of months ago it actually looked like a foreign policy shakeup was on the verge of wrecking things for Europe as Vance made his speech lmao. He's reverted straight back to the one party MIC line of forestalling Russia just under the tack of attempting to draw out negotiations. At some point the US has to abrogate responsibility for the war and leave the European powers clutching the bag when Ukraine collapses.
>>2406223>Like, do the armies of Sweden, Finland, and Austria all together even amount to a single one of the new armies that Russia has created in the past two years?
>The Swedish Armed Forces consist of 25,600 active personnel, including 9,700 officers, 5,700 enlisted soldiers, and 10,200 civilian employees.[5] Additionally, there are 7,100 reserve officers and 4,700 part-time enlisted soldiers, along with 22,200 soldiers in the Home Guard.[5] As of 2023, 6,300 conscripts undergo military training annually, set to increase to 8,000 by 2025. In wartime, the total personnel is estimated to be 88,000, including all regularly employed personnel, reservists, and conscripts.[6]
<The [Finnish] army is organised into operative forces, which consist of approximately 61,000 persons, and territorial forces, which consist of 176,000 persons.
>The [Austrian] military consists of 16,000 active-duty personnel and 125,600 reservists.So in terms of active personnel, they just about equal one of these new Russian armies which iirc was something around 100~125k.
>>2406185the fact you believe that country is neutral is what I would call a
great success for nato, you little trolling radlib bitch.
>>2406378I think political stability by being congruent with a wider division in the EU/NATO. Look at Starmer
The truth is the EU/NATO is polarizing itself and fueling an international division
I think originally the division largely divided the rest of the world, the former USSR, but now Europe itself
Domestic politics isn't necessarily about domestic issues and opinions anymore. Again, Starmer
>>2406378Partially, for the immediate reaction we just saw ITT, if Russia says this war is about NATO expansion then turning de facto members into de jure members implies that Russia is failing at its goal of preventing NATO expansion and in fact has sped it up through this conflict.
But really for anyone who isn’t invested in propaganda wars, another interpretation is that this conflict has caused *such* a stir for the west, that even symbolic “neutrality” is no longer acceptable for Washington and that all nations in Europe now have to be both lawfully and narratively identical. This likely comes down to some stupid bullshit like allowing the US military to transport itself through Austria as it wishes, but the main point is that the US shouldn’t need to sign any forms in commanding and utilising Austria that it wouldn’t need to for Germany as an example.
But even on an idealistic level it’s quite sad, imagine Sweden being neutral for centuries (even when Hitler was marauding about) but the masses accepting the abolition of that particular Swedish tradition without referrenda because now it’s just so much more important to look good in the eyes of US foreign policy than to be quite as Swedish as they once were.
Really, the long and short of it is that Russia has indeed sped up the consolidation of arbitrary control the US exerts over the entire European continent, stamping out the last few territories that only passively were resisting it based on tradition, but imagine boasting about that when supposedly motivated by opposing “empire”.
>>2406425Ah this is more than just the US dominating their politics, crucially it’s that people accept that dominance enthusiastically or even appear to demand it. It’s a culture of wanting to own the Russians by doing to themselves what they imagine Russia wants to do to all of its neighbours, politically, militarily, economically and culturally assimilate them all into a Moscow-led bloc.
The narrative of NATO just being a bunch of friendly fellas loosely and voluntarily united by a desire to “protect democracy”, out of coping and seething, has changed to one that relishes in the reality of NATO and US dominance, to suggest only the based can have an empire and Russia doesn’t have one and never will so they’ll never be as based as “us” lmfao >:^)
>>2406185Disinformatija, disinformazija, everyday
disinformatsija
This isn't gonna happen.
The bigger issue is that the neutrality isn't real.
The swiss have actual neutrality. Austria is a shitty Switzerland at most.
>>2405502>Ukraine is still winning actually. Russia still has less territory than it did in the first month of the war.That's not really how the war balance is measured (although that will be the cope, a faux miracle on the vistula). Ukraine is stuck between accepting a worse version of Istanbul or bleeding out as its patrons are exhausted, divided, and disillusioned then conceding the terms anyway. This is a decisive reversal of the attempt to bypass Minsk in favor of a confrontation with Donbass/Crimea. Novorossia, neutrality, and demilitarization/destabilization of NATO is an abject defeat for everything pro-Ukraine after 2014.
The fact Zelensky is giving up on EU membership anytime soon, instead trying to concentrate power while meeting Putin to gain recognition and satisfy Trump, is just the cherry on top. Ditto for the EU with its accelerating divisions and alienation of partners in Beijing and DC.
There's a reason Ted Cruz just openly admits Ukraine is a catastrophe
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