NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg made an unannounced visit to Kyiv on Monday and took aim at his own alliance for its pace of weapons deliveries to Ukraine.
“I know that serious delays in support have meant serious consequences on the battlefield,” Stoltenberg said at a joint press conference with President Volodymyr Zelensky. “For months, the US was unable to agree on a package. And European Allies have been unable to deliver ammunition at the scale we promised.”
Stoltenberg said Ukraine has been forced to ration ammunition but promised that aid deliveries will speed up and pointed to the recent US authorization of $61 billion in new spending on the proxy war. “I welcome that the United States has now approved a major new package. It provides over 60 billion US dollars worth of aid, including critical air defense and artillery ammunition,” he said.
The US has already announced $7 billion in new weapons for Ukraine, although $6 billion is in arms that the US is purchasing for Ukraine, which means they won’t be delivered right away. Zelensky told reporters that arms shipments have arrived but that his forces need more. “Some deliveries have already been done. I won’t [say] more. I will only say that we haven’t gotten all we need to equip our brigades,” he said.
The new US aid is not expected to prolong the war but not help Ukraine’s chances of beating back Russian forces. Stoltenberg’s visit to Ukraine came after the Ukrainian military announced it had withdrawn from three villages in Donetsk, and Russian troops continued to advance.
Besides the lack of enough ammunition, Ukraine is also facing a dire manpower shortage. The Ukrainian government passed new mobilization laws, but it’s unclear if it will be able to find enough conscripts. Kyiv is looking to pressure military-age men living abroad to come back and fight, and some NATO countries have expressed interest in helping.
The factory workers in the west are busy with gender bender.tryouts.
I think the NFL combine ended more’n a month ago.
NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg, who just like Hitler was an corporal in his countries army and became a politician, knows little about the military other than milking his appointed position for all he can get out of it.
Stoltenbeg is another pig feeding at the pig feed trough just like American and European Kleptocrats.
Where did you get the idea that Jens Stoltenberg was ever a corporal?
Your right he was a entry level private.
“He served his mandatory military service with the Army’s Infantry Training Centre at Evjemoen in Aust-Agder.”
Good of you to admit that the Hitler parallel was just a made up point to try to make him look worse.
No I demoted him because facts are facts. Just like Hitler Jens Stoltenberg is a low ranking army enlisted man turned politician just like Hitler.
You were just lying to imply parallels where there ae none.
What? Are you stupid or just lacking an ability to understand English? Stoltenberg is no better than HItler, both junior enlisted turned politicians.
As for you learn English and logic!
You wanted to imply that there were parallels which there just are not. Hitler was not enlisted but volunteered Stoltenberg was enlisted – Hitler was a low level officer Stoltenberg was only an enlisted grunt. So beyond having been in the military and being politicians there is no clear parallel.
Knowing history not English is what counts here!
Hitler was a corporal. That is an enlisted rank, not an officer rank. And “enlisted” is not a differentiation between “volunteer” and “conscript.”
Enlisted is in the Nordic militaries fundamentally a different thing from volunteering and you can only progress to become a Corporal in the Nordic militaries after having completed the enlistment period (at the time Stoltenberg was in the military there was general conscription so you had to serve if you were not disqualified, or had a different valid excuse) – thus you only became a Corporal by volunteering for further service.
Does that make it clear enough that there is a fundamental difference between the two???
You could be against military service, but also against wasting more of your life as a conscientious objector, and you would then still have to serve. SO given the level of Stoltenberg’s rank we cannot say that he joined because he was particularly motivated to serve, had he achieved the rank of Corporal we would have an indication that he volunteered for additional service above and beyond what he may have been ‘forced’ to do.
In the US, there are two types of soldiery:
1) Enlisted, which is the lower, non-officer ranks (although within THAT category there are “non-commissioned officers”); and
2) Officer, which is lieutenants, captains, majors, lieutenant colonels, colonels, and generals.
And then there’s those who voluntarily “enlist” versus those who are “drafted” or “conscripted.”
Hitler was a volunteer enlistee who was also enlisted in rank (corporal, which in the US at least is the lowest “non-commissioned officer” rank).
Stoltenberg appears to have been a conscript, enlisted in rank.
Sorry to be so confusing. It’s just that the term “enlisted” is used in two different ways for two different things. “Enlisting” is volunteering. “Enlisted in rank” is lower ranks.
Well I know that it is different in the US, but what was and is relevant here is how it was in Norway when Stoltenberg was conscripted into the army. Enlisted as a private i.e. never took any voluntary additional courses. Hitler did not enlist to be a corporal but was promoted through wartime service – his rise was very much the result of being a enthusiastic participant – he was given medals for his service.
As I pointed out there is nothing in Stoltenberg’s official military history that indicated that he (at the time) saw his obluigation to do military service as anything other than that i.e. an obligation.
You obviously have no clue that below the officer ranks there are the enlisted or troops of whatever you wan to call them.
It matters not how they arrived at their enlisted or drafted positions they are all in the same category.
Hitler was NOT an officer: “Hitler served as a Gefreiter (lance corporal) in the Bavarian Army”.
Stoltenberg served his mandatory military service with the Army’s Infantry Training Centre at Evjemoen in Aust-Agder.
So yes, they were both lower level troops and later turned into politicians.
You are really clueless on this issue!
The critical thing is that Hitler volunteered, and he was awarded medals and he was promoted – all indicative of his enthusiastic participation – whereas from what we know of Stoltenberg’s military career all he did was to be conscripted into the Norwegian army, and never neither promoted nor sought further education (e.g. to Corporal).
That you would draw parallels between a conscripted soldier who never distinguished himself and a volunteer that did distinguish himself and was awarded a fairly prestigious medal (given his rank) shows that you are the one who knows little and/or are seeking to make two military careers that are very different seem alike – they are not.