Posted on 03/23/2022 9:03:40 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
When I was in Nam the standard ammo supply was considered 200 rounds for the M-16. However those with experience would forgo carrying a lot of other things and simply pack as much ammo as possible.
On our gunboats we were supposed to carry two boxes of ammo for each 50 cal. We’d pack 10 each. In combat ammo disappears at a prodigious rate. Far more is used than any estimates from REMFs. We even had some REMF tell us we were using too much ammo. Much hilarity ensued.
But a weeks supply of ammo is a weeks supply. This depends on need not some fantasy number invented by some college trained REMF.
They are conscripting 65 year old men.
It probably will be spent with the same efficiency as Biden’s cancer charity:
“Tax filings reveal Biden cancer charity spent millions on salaries, zero on research”
“The group’s president, Gregory Simon, raked in $429,850 in fiscal 2018 (July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019), according to the charity’s most recent federal tax filings.
Simon, a former Pfizer executive and longtime health care lobbyist who headed up the White House’s cancer task force in President Barack Obama’s administration, saw his salary nearly double from the $224,539 he made in fiscal 2017, tax filings show.
Danielle Carnival, former chief of staff for Obama’s cancer initiative, the Cancer Moonshot Task Force, took home $258,207 in 2018.”
“But under grants distributed, it listed zero.”
What aid did the Germans pledge?
To keep buying Russian gas and oil.
Sure, the more the better.
NATO members in Europe are making lots of noise about new defense spending, but we'll see if they follow through. Recent history says no. But yeah, Raytheon is going to have to add a shift or another production line, as I bet the Javelin order line is ringing off the hook.
“Too little, too late”
The west does not want a Ukranian military victory... not that this is remotely possible. But they may want to insert just enough man-portable weaponry to keep a good-size insurgency going. In which case there is probably no rush.
“It doesn’t take a genius to see something here doesn’t jive.”
What doesn’t jive?
Because you see what you want to see
So do you
A lot of this is probably “process” delays, as one of the Pubbie Senators pointed out the other day, regarding US deliveries. Bureaucrats can (and do) muck up anything. And God forbid someone actually looks ahead or moves proactively.
If it’s bad with the US, most Euro’s are prolly going to be 3x worse.
The Russians are also running out of supplies so it will be sticks and rocks
I thought France would follow through but never trust Germany. Never.
The Germans still want to take over the World but this time without firing a shot
The Ukraine is losing when they want more aid.
The Ukraine is winning when they want to score propaganda points.
The truth—good luck finding it in the fog of war.
Exactly, and not my business. We have major problems on the home front.
Thus actually makes more sense.
Thanks for the common sense.
Yes, so stop sending stuff to prolong things. Russia isn’t losing those numbers and neither is Ukraine. Ukraine also isn’t winning nor will it. They should sue for peace.
Depends which ones you know, many have welcomed the Russians.
At the end of the day, it’s not our business.
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