Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday urged arms makers to produce weapons inside Ukraine in a speech opening Ukraine’s first International Defense Industries Forum.
“Right now, for the next decades, the most powerful defense-industrial complexes are being determined, what their priorities will be, and what the standard of defense in the world will be. It is being determined precisely in Ukraine,” Zelensky said.
According to Zelensky, the event was attended by representatives from 252 weapons firms from 30 countries. Helping build up Ukraine’s military industry is part of NATO’s plans to provide long-term support for Kyiv. After Zelensky recently visited Washington, he said he reached a deal on joint weapons production with the US.
“We have reached agreements on joint production – essentially the establishment of a new industrial ecosystem that will strengthen both Ukraine and the United States, and all our partners. This is one of the key outcomes of my negotiations with President Biden in Washington,” Zelensky said on Friday.
The Ukrainian leader said his country would establish a “special economic regime for the defense-industrial complex.” He said the purpose is to “give all the opportunities to realize their potential to every company that works for the sake of defense — in Ukraine and with Ukraine or that wants to come to Ukraine.”
Producing weapons in Ukraine could be a lucrative endeavor for Western arms makers, although the factories risk becoming targets for Russian missiles. A few days before Zelensky’s speech, a Ukrainian official told the Spanish news outlet ABC that an unspecified missile production facility was moved outside of Ukraine to keep it from being targeted by Russia.
The US needs to handle this situation, very, very carefully… It would neither be prudent, nor very smart, to continue on in this manner…
War with Russia is not something any of us should care to see…
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On the just in case side of things…
Light up if your feeling happy but if you’re sad just let those tears roll down…
Inhale…Hold it… Exhale…..(tears are hidden).
Right in the sight of Russian bombers and artillery. Brilliant idea.
Lower wages, lower taxes.
Maybe it’s not just the building of an arms industry for Ukraine. Maybe the lucrative deal is in rebuilding the arms factories each time the Russians blow them up.
Worse maybe?
British government prepares to send troops into the war against Russia
On Saturday, British Defense Minister Grant Shapps raised the prospect of deploying UK troops directly into Ukraine, nominally to serve as trainers for Ukrainian forces.
“Particularly in the west of the country, I think the opportunity now is to bring more things ‘in country,’” he told The Telegraph.
“I think there will be a move to get more training and production in the country,” Shapps added. He also raised the prospect of the direct involvement of the Royal Navy in combat operations against Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, declaring, “Britain is a naval nation so we can help.”
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak effectively confirmed Shapps’s assertions, saying, “What the defence secretary was saying was that it might well be possible one day in the future for us to do some of that training in Ukraine.”
A warning must be made: If plans to deploy NATO troops to Ukraine are being publicly discussed, it is because the decision has already been made, by a political and military cabal working in secret. They might initially be termed “advisers,” “consultants,” or “guards,” but the strategy is obvious: British “advisers” and “trainers” will be killed in Ukraine, and the Sunak government will use this fact as a pretext for further escalation.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/10/02/jsfx-o02.html
“Right now, for the next decades, the most powerful defense-industrial complexes are being determined, what their priorities will be, and what the standard of defense in the world will be. It is being determined precisely in Ukraine,” Zelensky said.
This guy talks as if this war will turn out well for his country. As if Ukraine will be whole and Russia will just drag their ass back home with their tail between their legs. The next decades? Jesus, talk about misguided optimism. He should worry about the coming months and being cut off from his “supporters” before talking about some unrealistic pipe dream that will surely produce WW3 before anything else.
Yes, “now you too can build expensive factories that get blown up immediately upon construction.”
Actually, from a Mil-Ind complex POV, this is genius: a never-ending cycle of funding and destruction that requires re-funding. I’m sure our Congresscritters are listening.
Yeah, bring your company to Ukraine; no corruption here. You won’t have to pay ‘protection’ money; pinky swear. I’m sure the Russian Army won’t target your production that is being used against them with a hypersonic missile. Trust me. – Vladomir Zelenskiy
I wonder is these foreign companies can even get insurance in a war zone.