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Yes and no. To some degree with the US this is true, but the US also produces enough small arms to keep several small scale wars going, just ask Mexico and Sout
by bevekspldnw 3y ago
Yes and no. To some degree with the US this is true, but the US also produces enough small arms to keep several small scale wars going, just ask Mexico and South America.
Europe on the other hand unilaterally disarmed after the Berlin Wall fell because they couldn’t anticipate a world where Russia reverted to historical form and the US wasn’t carrying NATO on its back.
Now they’ve got Putin on one side, potentially Trump pulling out of NATO on the other, oops.
- jonplackett 3y agoThe problem is that neither Ukraine nor Israel are small scale wars. They’re both dropping crazy amounts of bombs and needing crazy amounts of anti air missiles. Meanwhile the US is still meant to be ‘pivoting to Asia’ so wants ammo for that. It’s an established fact that Ukraine is running out of everything and we can’t make more. Even CNN now reporting it. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/03/10/politics/russia-artillery-shell-production-us-europe-ukraine https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/03/10/politics/russia-artillery...