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Austin: ‘Won’t Speculate’ How Long We’ll Need to Send Cluster Munitions While We Replenish Supplies
Breitbart ^ | 07/13/2023 | Ian hatchett

Posted on 07/13/2023 5:45:40 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

During an interview with CNN aired on Thursday’s “Situation Room,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that he “won’t speculate as to how long” the U.S. will have to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions while it works to replenish stocks of the munitions Ukraine needs. He also stated that “We have what we need, and we’ll continue to have what we need to support our plans in the United States of America.”

Austin said, “[W]hat we did early on was we engaged our industrial base and asked them to expand their capacity, and also the international industrial base, we’ve worked with other countries to do the same. We have what we need, and we’ll continue to have what we need to support our plans in the United States of America. But we want to make sure that Ukraine has what it needs to be able to continue the fight. While that expansion’s taking place, these cluster munitions act as kind of a bridging capability.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Ukraine; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: austin; clustermunitions; replenish; speculate
WWIII here we come
1 posted on 07/13/2023 5:45:40 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27
WWIII here we come

Probably not. The United States is out of ammo and can't fight a war. And cluster munitions aren't the right type of munitions for this particular war. This is the first time in history the United States has run out of ammunition during a war.

2 posted on 07/13/2023 5:52:59 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: ChicagoConservative27; All

Assuming the planet doesn’t destroy itself, the world will be screaming bloody murder at the US for decades for leaving thousands of these small land mines scattered all over the countryside… as well they should. Giving Ukraine cluster munitions was a dumb idea.


3 posted on 07/13/2023 5:59:05 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Biden Cluster Fudge continues, unabated...


4 posted on 07/13/2023 6:00:21 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Pentagon reminds us all of a Cluster.... nowadays.


5 posted on 07/13/2023 6:04:54 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Austin said, “[W]hat we did early on was we engaged our industrial base and asked them to expand their capacity, and also the international industrial base, we’ve worked with other countries to do the same. We have what we need, and we’ll continue to have what we need to support our plans in the United States of America.”


This clown is lying. All they have done is get a 2nd shift at the Scranton factory. And that took them a year to manage even that.

They need more forging presses to actually increase shell production. If they order them today it will be years before they get them.


6 posted on 07/13/2023 6:08:46 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Cobra64

Getting involved at all was a bad idea.
In the end, both countries will hate us.


7 posted on 07/13/2023 6:16:47 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“This camel can carry a little more straw, don’t worry.”

Incremental escalation tiny bits at a time. It is perfectly fine until it isn’t any more.


8 posted on 07/13/2023 6:24:27 PM PDT by webheart
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To: EEGator

No more than they already do. If Russia prevails the full story of the Bio Labs will be known and the full extent of the Administration’s involvement in the human trafficking trade and narcotics trade will be known. Therefore, Biden has instructed his Worshipers and enablers to pull out all stops to prevent this knowledge from getting out. At all costs they are to prevent this. And they are giving it the Ole College try.


9 posted on 07/13/2023 6:28:26 PM PDT by sport
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To: sport

This has the potential to be really bad…

People think things won’t happen because they haven’t happened before.
A dangerous fallacy.


10 posted on 07/13/2023 6:31:20 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In high school a friend picked a fight with someone from another school. John said ‘don’t me in the nose, it’s already broken’. Any question what followed?


11 posted on 07/13/2023 6:41:13 PM PDT by sasquatch
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

“The United States is out of ammo and can’t fight a war.”

https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4144677/posts?page=26#26

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12 posted on 07/13/2023 6:50:58 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We will need to supply them right up to the moment the Russians loose their nukes.


13 posted on 07/13/2023 6:51:53 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Reverend Wright

Austin is just an another POS. The guy is just awful.


14 posted on 07/13/2023 7:25:42 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Cobra64

A bad choice but seems like whatever, give them something so they’ll shut up for a bit, and won’t spill the beans.


15 posted on 07/13/2023 7:27:26 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: TLI
--- “The United States is out of ammo and can't fight a war.”

Very apt. But the grift needs to continue for those recipients of the receipts from the grift.

About a million in the various forces in today's military, an even with this, Biden wants to mobilize some few thousands of reservists. Recruitment is down as the next generations are unfit for various reasons, or do not want to serve in a "woke" military under some trans-officer cadre.

16 posted on 07/13/2023 8:08:46 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: EEGator

It is going to get really bad . And it will get bad. Biden will do what he must to protect his secrets. And that includes nuclear war with Russia. God Bless you.


17 posted on 07/13/2023 8:20:38 PM PDT by sport
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why don’t we just use low flying incendiary mass carpet bombing of civilians, entire cities. After all, the USA has done it before......

//s/


18 posted on 07/13/2023 8:37:23 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: EEGator; All

I totally agree. Trump would have stayed out of it and only participated as arbiter/negotiator between the two countries. Putin would not have tempted Trump, the Hammer of Thor.


19 posted on 07/13/2023 9:50:00 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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