Washington is "learning lessons" from the conflict about ammunition needs in a great power war, which are "far greater" than expected, a US military official says.
While we may cheer at this news, imo the intention of this narrative is manufacturing consent among citizens living under us/NATO/aukus for greater military spending. Also, I’d say there’s a reasonable probability this isn’t even factual.
Given that material support from the west to Ukraine is drying up, I see no reason to think this isn’t factual. The fact is that the west has been deindustrializingfora many decades now. Weapon production relies on having a well ironed out domestic industry.
Both are potentially correct given how the US military industrial complex has lied about amounts of weapons in the past (or that they even exist). But as we saw with the post 9/11 demand of conservatives and liberals for the complex to “shut up and take our money” for all the weapons they wanted. Which it does seem that while the US has greatly de-industrialized in many sectors. The ones that make stuff for the military are still setup. However I also agree that the over abundance of computers for making shit work means the lack of local foundries a problem. So that might be the main point of failure depending on the weapons/armor. I also wouldn’t be super shocked if all the random claims about how Russia’s military was missing lots of stuff due to oligarchs just taking money and not actually building stuff. But actually in the US and using all the mismanaged money spent for all of the “War on Terror” craziness. In any case the US is going to repeat history and the two fake options for parties will only come together in wasting more and more tax money on being the judge, jury, and executioner of the rest of the world.
The key problem I see for US is that standard of living has dropped to the point where public is becoming restless. Billions being spent on Ukraine while people in many US cities don’t even have clean drinking water isn’t exactly going over well.
US economy is headed for a severe recession now, and if the administration keeps pushing the war that’s going to cause riots like we’re seeing in Europe right now at some point. US is able to keep these proxy wars going as long as the public fails to connect them with their material conditions.
While we may cheer at this news, imo the intention of this narrative is manufacturing consent among citizens living under us/NATO/aukus for greater military spending. Also, I’d say there’s a reasonable probability this isn’t even factual.
Given that material support from the west to Ukraine is drying up, I see no reason to think this isn’t factual. The fact is that the west has been deindustrializingfora many decades now. Weapon production relies on having a well ironed out domestic industry.
This is a pretty good article discussing the actual numbers https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/return-industrial-warfare/
Both are potentially correct given how the US military industrial complex has lied about amounts of weapons in the past (or that they even exist). But as we saw with the post 9/11 demand of conservatives and liberals for the complex to “shut up and take our money” for all the weapons they wanted. Which it does seem that while the US has greatly de-industrialized in many sectors. The ones that make stuff for the military are still setup. However I also agree that the over abundance of computers for making shit work means the lack of local foundries a problem. So that might be the main point of failure depending on the weapons/armor. I also wouldn’t be super shocked if all the random claims about how Russia’s military was missing lots of stuff due to oligarchs just taking money and not actually building stuff. But actually in the US and using all the mismanaged money spent for all of the “War on Terror” craziness. In any case the US is going to repeat history and the two fake options for parties will only come together in wasting more and more tax money on being the judge, jury, and executioner of the rest of the world.
The key problem I see for US is that standard of living has dropped to the point where public is becoming restless. Billions being spent on Ukraine while people in many US cities don’t even have clean drinking water isn’t exactly going over well.
US economy is headed for a severe recession now, and if the administration keeps pushing the war that’s going to cause riots like we’re seeing in Europe right now at some point. US is able to keep these proxy wars going as long as the public fails to connect them with their material conditions.