stocks on NATO-EU ammunition I’m sold out and Ukraine will likely stay without defensive weapons. The statement by the US Secretary of State Antony Blinkto the decision of United States send cluster bombs to the army of Volodymyr Zelenskyy perhaps more concerned about the potential impact of cluster bombs on civilians. Because if what the head of US diplomacy has stated is true, the continuation of the war can only lead to two opposite, but both negative, epilogues: the surrender of Kiev or the massive use of increasingly deadly weapons.
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Speaking during an interview with Nbc, Blinken did not mince his words when defining the current situation of European and American stockpiles for Ukrainian soldiers: “The reserves of single ammunition in the world and in Ukraine.” they are running out . That reduced the difficult but necessary decision to supply cluster bombs to this. If we don’t they will run out of ammo and if they run out of ammo they will be defenseless.” When Solicited for Comment The opposition manifested by European alliesmostly signatories 2008 Oslo Convention Contrary to the US, Russia and Ukraine, the foreign minister did not express any particular concern about the ban on cluster bombs: “All the allies I spoke to said they understood why we were doing this.”
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The fact is that the reasons given by Blinken (again) raise the question of the ability of the Allies to ensure sufficient supplies of supplies to support a conflict against a military power such as the Russian one, which, however, at the moment does not seem to be suffering from particular ones defects. While supply difficulties They have been known from the western part of the front since the end of 2022. This is due to the defense strategy of the NATO countries, which for years have not considered the possibility of such an attack conventional warfare their limits and focus on training and production in the fieldAerospace and in Martial arts and intelligence time to face armed paramilitary and terrorist groups, but no regular armies as powerful as the Russian one. However, on his part Fly never ruled out the possibility of a 20th-century style conflict, while exploiting the still enormous arsenal of the 20th-century years Cold War and integration with ever-evolving guns and ammunition, facilitated by its own headed military doctrine the artillery.
For this reason, too, the alliance has again called on the member countries to comply with the minimum threshold of 2% of GDP used to manufacture armaments. And also for that European Parliament He gave the green light for the plan to also supply Ukraine with new weapons with Pnrr money. However, all steps run the risk of being delayed: the reorganization and increase in production takes months, if not years. companies must change their production chainsNew investments must be made logistics and further supply channels. All of this while the conflict, at its most intense moments, has seen both sides firing tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition a day: a pace that even current American production chains find difficult to maintain without losing control national stocks.
This is the perspective if what Blinken said is relevant to reality. On the other hand, if the situation is not as tragic as what you say suggests, we would only be faced with an attempt to justify a step that is under consideration, namely the dispatch of cluster bombs unscrupulous even by their allies.