The UK has run out of military equipment that it can give to Ukraine, according to a senior British military source speaking to The Telegraph.
“We’ve given away just about as much as we can afford,” the unnamed source told the paper, adding that the UK had a role to play in encouraging other nations to continue arming Ukraine.
“We will continue to source equipment to provide for Ukraine, but what they need now is things like air defense assets and artillery ammunition, and we’ve run dry on all that,” the source said.
The UK has been a staunch supporter of the proxy war in Ukraine and has led many escalations in NATO support, including the provision of Storm Shadow cruise missiles, which have a range of 155 miles, and toxic depleted uranium ammunition for use with British-made Challenger 2 tanks.
The Telegraph report came after Ben Wallace, who resigned as defense secretary last month, said he urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to spend billions more so Britain could overtake Germany as Ukraine’s top supporter in Europe. The source speaking to The Telegraph said the onus should not be on London to provide the “billions” Wallace has called for. “Giving billions more doesn’t mean giving billions of British kit,” the source said.
The UK’s lack of arms for Ukraine is the latest sign that NATO support for the proxy war is fracturing. Poland recently declared it would no longer provide Ukraine with weapons over a grain spat, Slovakia elected a candidate who campaigned on ending military support for Ukraine, and Congress still has yet to authorize the additional $24 billion in spending on the war that President Biden is seeking.
Sure; “we support Ukraine but not with our own money”. UK remains consistent.
UK had a military budget larger than Russia’s in 2021; where did all that money go, since the best they can do is 14 tanks, no aircraft, some obsolete armored vehicles, and some loose ammunition. Audits, anyone?
UK wasted money on two limping aircraft carriers and F-35 mistake-jets.
Fubar-35. One crashed the other day. Went 60 miles AFTER the pilot ejected.
That’s some tricky A.I. we built into the F35.
🙂
That has got to be a bit awkward back at the base for the pilot
re: “NATO support for the proxy war is fracturing”
US General Christopher Cavoli, the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, apparently isn’t aware of it, reading his response to a probing question a few days ago–he’s still in dreamland:
“They have weapons, you have weapons, everyone has weapons; but right now, no one has a clear advantage. So the price of peace is at an all-time low. This is the perfect time to sit down and hammer out an agreement. Don’t you get it? (Directly) attacking the [Russian Federation] now will only escalate the conflict and make peace more expensive in the long run! Now, I ask you: is that logical ?”
“. . . our entire strategy is designed around obtaining and maintaining advantage in domain, in geography, and in readiness, and that’s where I want to see us, maintaining those advantages . . .”
If what we see now in Ukraine is the level of advantage Gen. Cavoli wants to maintain . . .
Cavoli is the only US general that has admitted the following in Jan of this year ”
“The scale of this war is out of proportion with all of our recent
thinking,” said Cavoli, who is also head of US European Command. Think on this.. the most realistic assessment of the capabilities of not only NATO but also the US which is driving this proxy war.
Ukrainian soldiers are running out of arms to hold their weapons.
…and legs… But Zelensky is getting more rich. Why would he care? He’s sending the Ukrainian women next. If they don’t die, they still have their arms and legs until they don’t. (Truly sick sarcasm but probably not as sick as Zelensky)
It’s never “sick” if it’s the truth, NA. Still, it’s enough to make one weep for them.
Great! Maybe this would be a good time for Ireland to return the favor and occupy the UK.
.. .and starve the Englanders
Damn right, Don. Let ‘em have a taste of their own medicine.
Promise to leave the Scots alone, and you have a deal.
The Scots are Celts like the Irish.
No Scots involved, just the Anglos…promise !
Gypsy for PM!
😁🥰
England needs to declare independence from the UK
England needs to declare independence from monarchy, first. They will never be free so long as they must call themselves “subjects.”
The UK needs to declare independence from ENGLAND.
USA Today — Today (10/3/2023)
Is ‘unwavering’ support for Ukraine starting to waver? ‘It may well be’ in US and beyond
Congress are you listening?…Bye-done too? We are sick of providing ANY more money for WAR? “……………………………..
24 billion dollars, more dollars? You ALL are writing checks that your BODY CAN’T CASH!!! ( pun intended.)
No! No! No!
WE WILL VOTE EACH AND EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU WAR MONGERING SOBS OUT!!!
Here is a new word for your vocabulary: HELL NO!!!
A little revolution, now and then, is a GOOD THING!
Well we got a little Revolution in the House of Representatives this afternoon!
Damn straight Donna!
You GO, Girl!
Beep….You have reached Congress. Our Speaker has just been vacated, please call again later….Goodbye. Beep.
Actual footage of Congress “listening” to us.
Yea, that’s what that old racist Thomas Jefferson said. I’m surprised that haven’t knocked over his statues yet.
NATO has already lost; 483 Aircraft, 250 helicopters, 7417 UAV’s, 440 Anti Aircraft systems, 12275 tanks inc. APC’s, 1160 multiple rocket launchers, 6634 field artillery and 13721 military automotive equipment. Approx. $1 Trillion of NATO hardware.
WW3 started in 2014 according to NATO. The combined Western nations overthrew the government in a violent bloody coup and installed Nazi’s in power.
These people are monsters, parasites on humanity, total psychopaths.
Seems to me that both sides of this conflict are comprised primarily of monsters and psychopaths.
The psychopaths are the members of the United Snakes guvvmint promoting this sh*tshow.
Really, so what Russian events would lead to that conclusion? Its fascist to blame the victims for the many many crimes against humanity committed against them.
Brian Berletic and others predicted months ago that the west would not be able to produce enough weapons to keep up with the rate that Ukraine is losing them. It looks like they were right.
LOL, you %$#ing idiots.
According to Gabriel Honrada, Ukraine is developing a “formidable weapons industry”. Large enough to become a serious competitor? And who owns these companies?
Not a problem. I know where they have a lot of money the British Government has long been conspiring to loot. I don’t know what took the British so long? The British people don’t need their healthcare in HELL! To the British–why are you so quiet? You didn’t know Zelensky is taking your healthcare money? I thought you were brave and you would never back down from a nuclear world war!? What happened? The BEAR ate your tongue? (Sarcasm)
NA, I’ve a question. Russia is a Bear (a potentially very dangerous creature); China is a Dragon (breathes fire); Amerikkka is an Eagle (a carrion eater).
What is Great Britain? A cockroach, maybe?
LOL. Just heard from cockroaches. They were insulted. I told them you were sorry and didn’t mean it. They didn’t believe me. Just kidding. They accepted your apology. LOL
😂
Poor cockroaches!!!
“We’re out of stuff to give away” translates to “We’re looking for a way off this sinking ship”. Always watch the rats.
We’re rearranging chairs on a ship that’s goin’ down.
More taxes then!!!
But, they’re planning to send troops there….????
Almost certainly . . . not really. The UK armed forces total about 275K members, all told. Fewer than 200K are active duty.
And the Brits would totally freak out if the Tory gov tried to send troops to fight the Russians.
Ukraine’s Demography is a disaster and was a disaster in 2014 when the NATO war started. In 2014 when the NATO war on humanity started there were only half as many people of 20 year age than 40 year old ones.
It is no wonder then that few of younger age are seen at the front line. Ukraine literally has no young citizens to send to the frontline, they are either dead, wounded or fled Ukraine.
In 2014 when the NATO war started Ukraine’s overall population was about 40 million. Latest estimates are 18 million. In 1990 Ukraine had a population of more than 50 million people.
To keep a population steady, research shows it’s necessary to have an average of about 2.1 babies per family — known as a replacement rate. In Ukraine, fertility rates have remained under that threshold since 1990. Over the last two decades, the rate has often dropped below what experts call a “very low” fertility rate of 1.3, when a population begins to shrink at an ever increasing rate. In January 2021, a year before Russia’s full-scale invasion, the fertility rate was 1.16.
BBBBHHHHRRRRAAA!
Ukrainian banks are running out space to hide,er uhm, put all the money.
This war should be over soon. As soon as the war is over the west is going to try to get Ukraine in NATO
A new study conducted by scientists from Harvard and Johns Hopkins, currently in pre-print, reveals that the COVID-19 vaccines were up to 98 times worse than the virus itself. “Using CDC and sponsor-reported adverse event data, we find that booster mandates may cause a net expected harm.”
I new this when the outbreak happened, i was beaten, abused, threatened and sacked from my job because of my stand. People told me i could starve and die as far as they were concerned.
The people who believed and said this were a huge majority, the worst of people, you know who you are. Totally despicable people.
Nuremberg Code (1947) has 10 standards by which medical experiments must conform too. All 10 were breached with the Covid Mandates.
It should be a CHOICE, Doom. No one should be subject to abuse or lose their job because of their choice.
I had the vaccine and two boosters. My experience with Covid was a sore throat for a few hours. The RSV hit me much harder.
I decided to go ahead and vax when my brother, an MD and a man of science, got his as soon as he was able. I’ll get the booster this fall.
That’s my choice; you have a choice too.
Pfizer for instance had 2 production processes, one for testing and one for providing product to people. The process they used to provide product was cheap and had impurities which harmed a lot of people. But they made a lot of money.
Nuremberg principal is “Informed Consent”, they lied to us about everything. This is fascism and they do not care about us at all.
Doom, hubs and I had the Pfizer vaccine and two boosters with no ill effects at all. When we finally did get Covid, due to large family get-togethers, our symptoms were extraordinary mild.
I am really happy to hear you are fine, unfortunately not everyone is.
Here in NZ the MedSafe register for vaccine events shows that for every 3,500 vaccinations one person is seriously harmed. There are a few contributing factors to theis harm of which the change in the production process is a factor. Another for instance is FNA (Fine Needle Aspiration) to ensure that the vaccination does not enter the bloodstream.
People need to be arrested and charged with mass murder. This is what happens when you hand all levers of power to psychopaths.