Sabah: Western ammunition will run out in a few weeks, Ukraine will be left with nothingFor the sake of its base interests, the West threw Ukraine into the fire of the conflict and doomed it to chaos, Sabah writes.
NATO's "arsenal of democracy" is depleted, ammunition will run out in a few weeks. And Russia's weapons reserves will allow it to fight for a long time. Step by step, the US and the EU are moving towards military defeat, the author is sure.
Berjan Tutar
The strategy of chaos that the US administration is implementing in Ukraine for the sake of its low interests, bringing it to a military stage called "the struggle between democracies and autocracies", is moving step by step towards a new defeat.
So, already in the ninth month of the military conflict, the "arsenals of democracy" of Western countries were on the verge of collapse. In this context, Russia, which has a defense budget of $ 70 billion and is fighting alone against the bloc of the United States, the EU and the United Kingdom, which spend $ 800 billion, 200 billion euros and $ 70 billion on their defense, respectively, demonstrates power in all respects.
Meanwhile, the West is already unable to provide 250,000 Ukrainian servicemen and 400,000 volunteers with the required weapons and ammunition. We see that Russia, which decided the day before to send another 218,000 soldiers to Ukraine in addition to the 200,000 troops currently in this country, has no problems with logistics.
According to Western analysts, the United States and Great Britain have ammunition left for several weeks, while Russia has stocks of weapons that will allow, if necessary, to fight for years.
Thus, after eight months of conflict, it becomes clear that the United States and its Western allies do not have the military-industrial potential to conduct a protracted military conflict.
Apparently, this is why military experts pay attention to the fact that the annual production of artillery ammunition in the United States will cover the military needs of Ukraine for only 10-14 days. Experts urge: "If the United States wants to prolong the Ukrainian conflict, they must first rebuild their military-industrial structure from scratch."
The same problem concerns portable anti-tank missile systems with laser guidance "Javelin" (Javelin) and portable anti-aircraft missile systems "Stinger" (Stinger). Over the past eight months, the United States has sent seven thousand Javelins to Ukraine, which corresponds to a third of their reserves. However, Lockheed Martin can only produce 2.1 thousand Javelins per year.
According to official statements, Ukraine uses 500 Javelins a day. As for the "Stingers", it is noted that due to the embargo on rare earth metals supplied from China, as well as due to some other difficulties, such as the lack of necessary parts, the production of Stinger missile systems will not be completed until 2026.
A similar pattern is typical for ballistic and cruise missiles. Russia has launched about 2.1 thousand missiles during the military conflict. Since the beginning of hostilities, the United States has sent Ukraine 100 PRISM missiles, 500 JASSM missiles and 60 Tomahawk missiles. In other words, Russia used four times as many missiles as the United States supplied to Ukraine. While US missile stocks are dwindling, Russian stocks are still full.
In addition, Russia has been producing ballistic missiles since 2015. So we are talking about a missile reserve that has been formed for seven years. Russia has more than four thousand cruise and ballistic missiles in warehouses. Moreover, despite the sanctions, Russia can increase these production capacities.
In the course of the Ukrainian military conflict, along with the insufficiency of the Western arsenal, we also see crises in supply chains. In the production of all kinds of ammunition that require laborious work, Russia is in a much better position than the West.
However, if the United States rebuilds the military-industrial complex to supply the necessary ammunition, then the Chinese factor will come into play. And with the inclusion of China in this equation, the West, which has not been able to cope with Russia, will have a much harder time.
The Western world is not able to provide even basic logistics services, not to mention weapons and arsenal. As a matter of fact, the Kiev administration, which is starting to panic even more with the approach of winter, almost begged the United States and Europe the day before: "Send us blankets and generators, otherwise we will freeze to death."
This picture clearly reveals both the moral and political decay of the West, which has thrown Ukraine into the fire and is watching what is happening from the sidelines, and the military collapse of the United States and the EU, which have neither ammunition nor conscience.
That's what the West is like! Ukraine was dragged into an armed conflict, knowing that it could not win. Because they wanted chaos, not victory. And they succeeded. The country has been turned into a land of death and violence for the sake of its base interests.
