Disturbing stories today suggest that the Neocon/Globalist coalition continues to recklessly escalate its war, well, it’s war for global hegemony. It’s not just Russia. China and, it sounds increasingly like, India must also be subjugated. Since that’s an impossibility with conventional arms that leads to stories like this one:
I saw a report on Strategypage this morning. We are currently producing 90 Javelin missiles per month. We have, to date, sent 8500 to Ukraine. We have, they say the ability to send another 10,000 HIMARS rounds to Ukraine before our stocks are so depleted that we cannot do routine training. Our current war reserve stocks are inadequate to support a major conventional war.
The plan is to double production ofJjavelin and other critical munitions, but this cannot be done before sometime next year. if you told me that deadline would slip given the current state of the supply chains and the labor market, I would not say you were wrong.
The genius Neocons thought we'd bring Russia to its knees with our magic sanctions war. They never foresaw what happened. You have to wonder whether any intel reporting was ignored because it didn't fit the narrative.
Current production of the GMLRS missile, which is what the HIMARS fires, is 420 per month. I assure you they are being used up much faster than they are being produced. The Plan is to double production. Whatever. We could double it and double it again and it would not be enough. The report also explains that the generals have been warning about the war reserve stocks for years, given the number of smart bombs expended in Iraq and Syria. This problem predates Ukraine, but the war there has made the supply situation acute
I said in a comment some days back that I thought the Russians might now be capable of launching an operation to cut the land LOCs through which Western military aid flows. I'm starting to wonder if such an operation would be worthwhile. If we just run out of stuff...
It appears that our worst fears are being confirmed, these people are not going to stop escalating things until they get a war started. At this point, not sure how much help a “red wave” is going to provide. The handful of days until the election could be more than enough to produce the unthinkable………..
I would like to see a 'reporter' ask Milley or the SecDef if climate change is still our most imminent threat. These two buffoons deserve to be tarred and feathered and drummed out.
"Your only option is use your big stick because you have no other viable options." In point of fact, we are speaking loudly to make up for the fact we have no big stick. It would be nice if Putin would oblige and do something outlandish. He won't. Our government is expert in outlandish rhetoric, but has historically abandoned any real fight when the going gets tough, starting with Vietnam. Nixon won that one in spite of the Democrats, but true to form we walked away when the North invaded two years later and Nixon was not around. Trump had credibility, having destroyed a Russian force in Syria and having established total control over Afghanistan, but Biden is not Trump. Hopefully Biden will not have the guts to go nuclear, when not only Putin and the world would be against him, but the American public would repudiate him.
Not at all. With 250 troops on the ground and no casualties in over a year, the Taliban leadership was afraid of Trump. He targeted them when anything happened. He invited them to Washington with the idea they could participate in a future government, but prior to coming they exploded a bomb to gain leverage. They were disinvited.. Things were so safe that schoolkids from California went there for vacation, when I assume they would have hesitated before taking a trip to Los Angeles.
My number of troops in Afghanistan was incorrect. The actual number was 2500.
Also my claim of no soldiers dying was debunked by USA Today on 9/1/21:
"The claim: No service members died in Afghanistan in the last 18 months
Thirteen U.S. service members were killed in Afghanistan in a suicide bombing attack near Kabul's international airport less than a week before the U.S. was set to complete its military pullout on Aug. 31.
But official military records show that U.S. service members have died in Afghanistan since February 2020, 18 months ago, though not in combat situations.
In 2020, 11 military deaths were recorded as part of Operation Freedom's Sentinel, according to the Defense Department's Defense Casualty Analysis System, which maintains U.S. casualty information for global or regional conflicts.
Of those 11 deaths, four were hostile, combat-related deaths in Afghanistan: two in January and two in February.
In January, two Army soldiers were killed after their vehicle hit a roadside bomb during a NATO operation, the Pentagon announced at the time.
And in February, two Army soldiers died as "a result of wounds sustained while engaged in combat operations," according to a Pentagon press release.
The two hostile deaths in February marked the last combat-related deaths in Afghanistan until the recent attack near Kabul's international airport."
The Korean War, when I served though not in combat, ended with a cease fire and us keeping 30,000 troops on the border. I would call keeping 2500 troops on the ground and maintaining control over Afghanistan a military victory.
The Pentagon does not have the authority to make such an announcement unless approved by POTUS. Such an aberration would have been quickly and severely dealt with during the Cold War era. The 'Pentagon' does not get a vote. How far we have fallen as a nation of laws and lines of authority.
Does anyone remember that goofy chick in 'Mars Attacks' who releases doves when the Martians invade and destroy the world?
Are we at that point yet?
Starting a war as if we could produce weapons like its World War Two all over again. These loons are nut jobs.
I saw a report on Strategypage this morning. We are currently producing 90 Javelin missiles per month. We have, to date, sent 8500 to Ukraine. We have, they say the ability to send another 10,000 HIMARS rounds to Ukraine before our stocks are so depleted that we cannot do routine training. Our current war reserve stocks are inadequate to support a major conventional war.
The plan is to double production ofJjavelin and other critical munitions, but this cannot be done before sometime next year. if you told me that deadline would slip given the current state of the supply chains and the labor market, I would not say you were wrong.
If I had any good news, I'd share.
The genius Neocons thought we'd bring Russia to its knees with our magic sanctions war. They never foresaw what happened. You have to wonder whether any intel reporting was ignored because it didn't fit the narrative.
Current production of the GMLRS missile, which is what the HIMARS fires, is 420 per month. I assure you they are being used up much faster than they are being produced. The Plan is to double production. Whatever. We could double it and double it again and it would not be enough. The report also explains that the generals have been warning about the war reserve stocks for years, given the number of smart bombs expended in Iraq and Syria. This problem predates Ukraine, but the war there has made the supply situation acute
I said in a comment some days back that I thought the Russians might now be capable of launching an operation to cut the land LOCs through which Western military aid flows. I'm starting to wonder if such an operation would be worthwhile. If we just run out of stuff...
It appears that our worst fears are being confirmed, these people are not going to stop escalating things until they get a war started. At this point, not sure how much help a “red wave” is going to provide. The handful of days until the election could be more than enough to produce the unthinkable………..
US keeps escalating the pressure / raising the ante.
Why now?
For what purpose? May be it’s about getting more funding. Lots of FUD out of the pentagon and Allies, goal is to get more funding.
The FBI on misinformation is terrifying.
Aww, they forgot "malinformation". That's my favorite!
https://www.cisa.gov/mdm
I would like to see a 'reporter' ask Milley or the SecDef if climate change is still our most imminent threat. These two buffoons deserve to be tarred and feathered and drummed out.
"Your only option is use your big stick because you have no other viable options." In point of fact, we are speaking loudly to make up for the fact we have no big stick. It would be nice if Putin would oblige and do something outlandish. He won't. Our government is expert in outlandish rhetoric, but has historically abandoned any real fight when the going gets tough, starting with Vietnam. Nixon won that one in spite of the Democrats, but true to form we walked away when the North invaded two years later and Nixon was not around. Trump had credibility, having destroyed a Russian force in Syria and having established total control over Afghanistan, but Biden is not Trump. Hopefully Biden will not have the guts to go nuclear, when not only Putin and the world would be against him, but the American public would repudiate him.
I don't think it's a "guts" issue with Brandon. He's throughly hollow. If the prompt card says push the red button, he's gonna push it.
"having established total control over Afghanistan"
You're joking, right?
Not at all. With 250 troops on the ground and no casualties in over a year, the Taliban leadership was afraid of Trump. He targeted them when anything happened. He invited them to Washington with the idea they could participate in a future government, but prior to coming they exploded a bomb to gain leverage. They were disinvited.. Things were so safe that schoolkids from California went there for vacation, when I assume they would have hesitated before taking a trip to Los Angeles.
Dream on. I had two sons, one military one civilian, doing three tours there in those years. Nothing like what you're imagining.
My number of troops in Afghanistan was incorrect. The actual number was 2500.
Also my claim of no soldiers dying was debunked by USA Today on 9/1/21:
"The claim: No service members died in Afghanistan in the last 18 months
Thirteen U.S. service members were killed in Afghanistan in a suicide bombing attack near Kabul's international airport less than a week before the U.S. was set to complete its military pullout on Aug. 31.
But official military records show that U.S. service members have died in Afghanistan since February 2020, 18 months ago, though not in combat situations.
In 2020, 11 military deaths were recorded as part of Operation Freedom's Sentinel, according to the Defense Department's Defense Casualty Analysis System, which maintains U.S. casualty information for global or regional conflicts.
Of those 11 deaths, four were hostile, combat-related deaths in Afghanistan: two in January and two in February.
In January, two Army soldiers were killed after their vehicle hit a roadside bomb during a NATO operation, the Pentagon announced at the time.
And in February, two Army soldiers died as "a result of wounds sustained while engaged in combat operations," according to a Pentagon press release.
The two hostile deaths in February marked the last combat-related deaths in Afghanistan until the recent attack near Kabul's international airport."
The Korean War, when I served though not in combat, ended with a cease fire and us keeping 30,000 troops on the border. I would call keeping 2500 troops on the ground and maintaining control over Afghanistan a military victory.
"maintaining control over Afghanistan"
strictly fantasy
The Pentagon does not have the authority to make such an announcement unless approved by POTUS. Such an aberration would have been quickly and severely dealt with during the Cold War era. The 'Pentagon' does not get a vote. How far we have fallen as a nation of laws and lines of authority.
Astounding and grave...thank you. Get your Faraday cages ready....