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Britain appears to be under the rule of the WOG. (White-excluding Occupational Government)
Posted on 02/28/2024 9:24:53 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed that EU nations have only managed to deliver 30 per cent of their pledged artillery shells, once again underscoring the hapless state of Europe’s military capabilities.
While establishment media, Eurocrats, and Kyiv have all pointed their fingers at the United States and the ongoing dispute over further American funding of Ukraine as a reason for recent battlefield losses to the Russians, President Zelensky revealed that the apparent artillery shortage is in large part due to failures of the EU to meet its commitments.
“Out of the million shells that the European Union promised us, not 50 per cent came, but 30 per cent, unfortunately,” Zelensky told reporters this week according to the EU-funded Euractiv website.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Times are tough, Mr. T-Shirt.
“The effectiveness of the escalation in war production is illustrated by the quantities of material manufactured: Britain alone produced nearly four million rifles, a quarter of a million machine guns, 52,000 aeroplanes, 25,000 artillery pieces and over 170 million rounds of artillery shells by the end of the war.”
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-factories-that-fed-the-front-in-the-first-world-war
quotes:
In a January message to Congress, Roosevelt wrote: “We cannot, and we will not, tell them that they must surrender, merely because of present inability to pay for the weapons which we know they must have.” FDR acted after the British told U.S. officials that their beleaguered nation would no longer be able to pay cash for arms, as the law required.
Seeking public support, FDR likened lend-lease to a fire hose lent to a neighbor to put out a fire, after which the hose is returned. “What do I do in such a crisis?” the president asked at a press conference. “I don’t say, ... ‘Neighbor, my garden hose cost me $15; you have to pay me $15 for it’ ... I don’t want $15 — I want my garden hose back after the fire is over.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2010/03/fdr-signs-lend-lease-act-march-11-1941-034210
Yeah, [most] NATO countries promise big and deliver less...
It ought to be a wake up call. Both Europe and the U.S. are short of shells and no one has the capacity to produce them much faster. 16 years of cutting the military has made us vulnerable to attack. It’s no wonder Putin is threatening to invade Europe. He sees weakness.
“On Dec. 11, Germany’s Adolf Hitler cited the lend-lease program when he declared war on the United States.”
Bang that begging bowl right in their faces Z! The little organ-grinder monkey is getting more obnoxious every day.
During WW 2 Britain was an industrial superpower and a world-spanning empire but now Britain is just a little island with a service economy ruled by fat chicks and gay men under orders from America. That is why Britain can’t manufacture enough munitions to even to defend themselves, let alone defend the Ukrainian dictatorship.
Sucks to be them.
“Prior to Russia’s invasion, Ukraine produced enough nitrogenous fertilizer to meet over 70 percent of domestic demand. In 2021, domestic production exceeded 5.2 million metric tons, while Ukraine imported 1.4 million metric tons of nitrogenous fertilizers. After Russia’s invasion, only two of Ukraine’s five nitrogenous fertilizer factories remained operational, causing domestic production to fall by 78.3 percent to 1.1 million metric tons in 2022, and imports to triple to 4.3 million metric tons. By February 2023, the Cherkasy Azot and Rivneazot factories increased production capacity by 40 percent and 50 percent, respectively, but Ukrainian farmers still saw a shortage of mineral fertilizers, including nitrogenous fertilizers, ahead of the 2023 spring sowing campaign.”
Germany still makes machine tools.
Ukraine still controls most the area that holds the raw materials for explosives. It has the capabilities to make explosives.
I have favored an armistice since the start.
Worry about human lives first, and the dirt afterward.
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Britain appears to be under the rule of the WOG. (White-excluding Occupational Government)
They’d rather owe it to them than cheat them out of it.
Just like their commitment to NATO.
Europe is waiting for America to make up the difference while they take holidays and work part time work weeks with free social care
The US should match what Europe puts up. Europe is closest to the fight and should be more anxious to contribute. If they’re not, why should we?
It's a good thing that the Ukrainians and their American puppeteers were able to neutralize the Russian spy satellites.. 
Well 70% went to the Big Guy, and his family.
This is why the Ukraine aid must continue, not to transfer old obsolescing equipment but to keep everyone getting a cut on the gravy train.
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