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    Berletic - The Ukraine Arms Drain: Now and in the Future Archived Message

    Posted by sashimi on December 11, 2022, 10:35 pm

    Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for December 12, 2022.

    * Russia continues its war of attrition - focusing on exhausting and
    overwhelming critical Ukrainian defenses around Bakhmut in eastern
    Ukraine/western Russia;

    * Despite claims that Russian missile stockpiles are depleted, Russia continues
    carrying out regular, large-scale missile barrages against Ukrainian
    infrastructure;

    * Latest US assistance package for Ukraine continues the trend of dwindling,
    inadequate support for Ukraine;

    * US government procurement numbers over the course of the next 2-5 years
    indicates that at no time in the near future will the US be capable of
    producing let alone supplying Ukraine with the number of weapons and
    ammunition it requires;

    * While Russian production data is not available, the fact that Russia's
    stockpiles and military were configured for large-scale protracted and intense
    combat suggests its military industrial output is likewise configured for such
    demands;

    * The Western media is now admitting that Ukraine can neither win, nor is there
    any moral imperative to ensure that it does...



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