While the sponsors of the Kiev regime have been able to provide sufficient supplies of weapons and munitions for terrorist armies in both Ukraine and Africa, they are unable to support real war. The Financial Times reported yesterday that Kiev’s backers are increasingly concerned by the struggle to increase ammunition production as the conflict chews through their stockpiles. At stake, the FT says, is not only the west’s ability to continue supplying Ukraine with the weapons it needs but also allies’ capacity to show adversaries such as China that they have an industrial base that can produce sufficient weaponry to mount a credible defense against possible attack. “Ukraine has focused us . . . on what really matters,” William LaPlante, the Pentagon’s chief weapons buyer, told a recent conference at George Mason University. “What matters is production. Production really matters.”
The FT notes that the UK has turned to a third party, which it has declined to identify, to restock its depleted stores of NLAW anti-tank missiles. “There are some really hard realities that we have been forced to learn,” James Heappey, Armed Forces Minister, said in October.
