‘Dangerously Depleted’: The US Is Sending So Many Weapons To Ukraine That Experts Are Starting To Wo

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‘Dangerously Depleted’: The US Is Sending So Many Weapons To Ukraine That Experts Are Starting To Worry


Micaela Burrow
Reporter
October 16, 2022 9:14 AM ET


    The U.S. has sent billions in military aid to Ukraine, depleting its own stocks of some weapons and munitions that some fear could weaken the American military should conflict erupt in other parts of the globe.

    While it’s not too late for the U.S. to adapt to increased demand for weapons, doing so will require increased investment in production to maintain U.S. military preparedness, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

    “If we get this right, we would not only accelerate the end of the war in Ukraine, but meaningfully change Beijing’s willingness to engage in aggression in the future,” Oklahoma Republican Senator Jim Inhofe told the DCNF.

The U.S. needs to seriously invest more in weapons and ammunition if it wants to continue supporting Ukraine and brace for conflict with other great powers, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Global efforts to support Ukraine’s resistance to the Russian invasion have triggered billions in spending to bolster Ukraine’s military, depleting U.S. stocks and raising concerns that the West may cripple its military opposite the rising threat from China. The U.S. will have to dramatically ramp up production, or otherwise risk further weakening the U.S. arsenal and adversely affecting America’s ability to react to dangers from China and other potential foes, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“For U.S. policy makers, the critical question regarding our policy towards Ukraine is quickly becoming more a what we can do for Ukraine, not necessarily what we should do,” Dan Caldwell, a senior advisor to Concerned Veterans for America and vice president for foreign policy at Stand Together, told the DCNF. “U.S. stockpiles of munitions are becoming dangerously depleted and it will take years for U.S. production capacity to catch up.”

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[Wingnut]

If you don't use it or sell it you lose it.  The military's war machine must go on.

[DB]

Russia's total annual GDP is about $1.7 trillion. It is an economic war they cannot win. They don't have the ability to produce enough weapons to sustain this much longer.

Putin totally screwed up.

[Hoodat]

Dangerously depleted?  What about all the weapons that Biden gave to the Taliban?  If Ukraine had that, there wouldn't be any Russians left inside their border.

[christian]

i warned of the ukraine conflict being a kobuki theater to drain the western nations of money and weaponry a month or two ago.  Glad some are finally seeing the light, hopefully not too late.
Europe woke up to the German threat too late in the 1930's, it didn't end pretty!