Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Monday that NATO countries need to ramp up weapons production, or Kyiv won’t be able to win the war against Russia.
Kuleba said that NATO countries must “begin the production of necessary weapons today.” If that doesn’t happen, he said Ukraine “won’t be able to win — as simple as that.”
Kuleba’s comments come amid reports that the US and other NATO countries are depleting their military stockpiles by sending so many arms to Ukraine. US arms makers are benefiting from the policy as they are essentially in a position where they can sell as many weapons as they can make.
Kuleba made the comments to POLITICO ahead of a NATO ministerial meeting that begins in Bucharest on Tuesday. Kuleba said that at the meeting, he will ask the NATO ministers for “air defenses, tanks, and production lines.”
While being entirely reliant on military aid, the vast majority being provided by the US, Ukrainian officials are not afraid to criticize their backers. Kuleba said there are countries “in the world who have what Ukraine needs but who are not going to sell it in sufficient quantities for political reasons.”
Kuleba denied the idea that Western countries have been pressuring Ukraine to negotiate with Russia. “I have to say that this notion of soft pressure on Ukraine is largely exaggerated,” he said.
Kuleba characterized the talks of negotiations as a “discussion on what’s next, how are we going to handle it together.”
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, the highest-ranking US military officer, recently came out in favor of peace talks to end the fighting. But his view is not a popular one in the Biden administration, as high-level officials in the State Department and on the National Security Council don’t think it’s time for negotiations.
Kiev regime clowns can only say what American MIC oligarchs want them to say.
Exactly. They are reality TV,
Does weapon production stimulate GDP?
We define GDP. Even loans — excuse me, credit — is an income. Anything goes.
Nope.
yes
In other words “we are actually losing this war”.
After the projected December Russian offensive, they’ll be losing a whole lot more.
In my opinion, Unless Russia introduce Nukes and NATO drops lethal support, there will be no Russian offensive that will produce significant gains on the ground.
No need for nukes. Or supersonic. Those are useful only in the case of interckntinental warfare. Does Rusdia need more gains on the ground?
Fair point.
Well it was @disqus_0oi5s9B9ju:disqus who suggested that the Russians apparently believe that they need more gains on the ground – why else talk about ‘the projected December Russian offensive‘?
I don’t know. You should ask your people over at the Kremlin. They are mounting offensive operations in multiple fronts. I’m pretty sure they are still trying to achieve their objective to de-militarize, de-nazify, and annex more land in Ukraine. Has that changed?
Are you really “Jake”?
Don Julio is one of many psudonyms of this Russophobic trol whol originally appeared as Don Bacon. His posts drew so many down votes & virolent /vituperate replies that he came up with the Don Julio and Lemonie Alpaca pseudonyms. Sometimes he produces short dialogues and banter between his Pseudonyms. As to if he is Jake too, I doubt that he is. The”Jake” I see posting always seemed to me to be waaaay more disagreeable than the Dons, or. the alpaca.
However this troll accused Bianca of posting while intoxicated which is about as outrageous as ANYTHING I have ever seen in these forums…. I BELIEVE Bianca has a most knowledgable and all encompassing mind as any poster in these conversations. Her understanding of the cultural undercurrents of European and Balkan prejudices and peoples never ceases to amaze me. My German, Czeck wife is tunned into some of these too, giving me some sense of such undercurrents for three decades.
Don Julio, Don Bacon, and Lemony Alpaca are clearly three entirely different people. You might want to ask your doctor to adjust your meds.
Yes, they are steadily losing ground
No need for gains, Mr. Troll.
Yes well be losing all the way through to the borders of 2014 – not sure we can cope with that much losing.
Just figuring out how to define it as a “win”.
🙂
“Win” means Ukraine is not a smoldering ruin….Yet. Thanks to the beneficent West.
Oh it is going to be a smoldering ruin, but a Russian troop free smoldering ruin.
Dmytro Kuleba(Mr. Potato Head; big fat face and squidgy little nose) expects other nations to bankrupt themselves to give money to a panhandling profligate terrorist criminal backwater area of Eastern Europe!
General Sergei “Armageddon” Surovikin and General Winter will soon grind Ukraine into frozen dust. The last chance for Zelensky to negotiate is in the next few weeks before the government of Ukraine is decapitated, to use an American phrase.
The amount of money is tiny compared to the US defense budget.
That doesn’t mean that America and Europe should send money and weapons to the most criminal corrupt organized crime organization in the world.
NATO “must”; Amerikkka “must”…
Is there anything the Cokehead of Kiev does NOT demand?
Next he’ll be “demanding” more high heels and a new piano, and maybe New York City…
I got a wonderful visual on that Gypsy!
The Kiev Regime is way too demanding.
They have a mighty patrin here. They can behave that way.
The MIC. Yep and all the flunkies in the administration who serve at its feet.
And NATO should after all Ukraine has done for them in the long run.
Exposing Russia to just a gas station with Nukes will save NATO hundreds of billions over the next decades. Instead of preparing for a potential conventional war with the a paper second largest army in the world, they now have to only focus on countering Nukes and deter Russia’s expansionism ambitions.
Kuleba said that NATO countries must “begin the production of necessary weapons today.” If that doesn’t happen, he said Ukraine “won’t be able to win — as simple as that.”
I guess the “exposing Russia to just a gas station with nukes” memo hasn’t gotten to Kuleba as of yet.
And Ukraine is just a gas pipeline without nukes.
But a high heeled dancing man president. Such luck.???
Fall for all the propaganda, do you? Zelenski and Co. is now dictating how we should spend our money?
Ukraine lost a fifth of its territory and “gained”where Russia chose to withdraw and not waste resources defending, Two small pockets. Seriously, by the way some media is hyping it — it looks like Ukraine has all the advantageas.
Russia has not started a real war, yet. It does not need against such an opponent and it should be selective because of the civil war goingvin within the war.
Your conclusions are wishful thinking.
DJ is a troll. He hasn’t analyzed anything AFAICS. He’s just here to throw stones.
You are conveniently changing your narrative. Need I quote you on comments from a few months ago when Russia was going to annihilate (paraphrasing) Ukraine? Hmm, now Russia is just being selective? I though demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine required a full invasion.
Don’t be so impatient. It is apparent that Russia plans to wait till the ground freezes before any mechanized advance. They took their time in fighting the Nazis then and they will take their time this time against the Ukie Nazis this time too letting Ole Man Winter have his way with them this time also.
Yet NATO is on Russia’s borders; Russia isn’t arming Mexico and/or Canada, threatening the US. Maybe you should start a Go Fund Me campaign for the Kiev Regime?
Already have and have also joined one to help a Russian pianist friend that was mobilized and soon after injured.
Thread jacking.
Instead it may be more productive for you to take in a poor illegal alien family who came unvetted across our southern border.
The government is already doing that and there’s many ways to support illegal alien families.
BTW, NATO and US have not invaded Mexico Nor Canada and if they ever do, I’ll support any country providing assistance to those two nations.
Sure you would – that would be ANTI-AMERICAN
Actually I think you are WRONG. Texas was Mexican but was taken by the U.S.
Typical Don Bacon/Julio post. But it seems to me that this ugly little war was sparked by NATO expansionism. Hey Don, there is NO countering Russian hypersonic nukes. The current action seems to be WWII artillery and ground troops with a few precision missiles to blast off the monotony. Hard to get the good stuff from the welfare line. Not to mention that Russian and Chinese R &D in rocketry has surpassed the West by generations, not years. The war on terror wasted two decades by sidelining research and trillions in treasure. They have their Guantonamo, Russia has hypersonics, and thermonuclear weapons thousands of times more powerful than the West has in its arsenals. If the gloves come off all this WWII artillery and hand to hand will get blown into this millennium, and there will be no place to hide.
Everyone but Raytheon has already lost this stupid war. Putin has embraced the typically western pose of the braindead neoconquistador, Volodymyr Zelensky has become every bit as despotic towards his own people as his enemies in Moscow are to theirs, the world economy is in f**king shambles from sea to shining sea and we’re closer to a nuclear apocalypse than we’ve been since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Peace should be a no brainer even for a supervillain at this point. Darth Vader would have called for a f**king peace deal even if only to save the Death Star from mutually assured destruction. The Cold War has officially become a mental illness. We should be shipping Thorazine to Ukraine.
http://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2022/11/kherson-calling-peace-sells-but-whos.html
Kuleba: … If that doesn’t happen, he said Ukraine “won’t be able to win — as simple as that.”
Agreed. At this point the only talk can be “Surrender.”
Ha ha they are working flat out now , the EU said it suspects the Americans are using the war for profits , no shit Sherlock lol.
Wow. Just dictating from Kyiv. Comedy of the highest order. But that is where the money is, so Ukraine will wag the NATO dog as long as they can, I suppose. I despair.