Borrell Says Entire EU Weapons Stockpile Burned in the Ukraine – Need to Find More Quickly

No one could have predicted this.

RT:

EU members must pour more resources into boosting their military capabilities to ensure the flow of weapons will continue “until Ukraine prevails” over Russia, the bloc’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has said. He acknowledged that insufficient preparation has led to member states’ stockpiles becoming depleted.

“We have given weapons to Ukraine, but in so doing, we realized that our military stockpiles have been depleted,” he wrote in a blog post on Sunday. “And we should be able to do this as long as necessary, until Ukraine prevails.”

The situation “has been a wake-up call for all of us about our military capabilities,” he said, reiterating his assessment from the previous week that the EU is “lacking critical defense capabilities.”

While acknowledging that “you do not fight wars with bank notes,” and that “there is a long way between allocating money and developing physical and human operational capabilities,” Borrell praised the fact that the EU’s spending on defense surpassed the €200 billion-level in 2021 for the first time.

Borrell also noted that unchecked military spending in the name of helping Ukraine defeat Russia has brought the EU and its member states closer to NATO’s 2% of GDP on military spending benchmark than they have been in years, while the European Defense Agency – which he also spearheads – saw a record €52 billion ($54.7bn) in defense investments.

As of last month, the EU and its member states together committed over $11 billion in purely military aid to Ukraine in 2022, according to statistics collected by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. The UK and Canada provided another $5.5 billion, while the top donor, the US, sent at least $22.8 billion worth of weapons.

Ukraine’s Western backers, including French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, promised to keep the supply of arms to Kiev flowing “for as long as it takes,” a phrase that both leaders, as well as US President Joe Biden, have frequently used when referring to their multibillion-dollar arms shipments.

One has to wonder what Russia is thinking about the fact that the West is literally destroying its entire weapons stockpile in the Ukraine?

Assuming Russia is not depleting their entire weapons stockpile, what does this mean for the future?

These weapons are not easy to make. Critical components come from China, and with the US threatening to invade Taiwan, and China allied with Russia, I don’t think they’re going to be excited about continuing to produce these weapons.

The West was already very unprepared for a serious conflict. Destroying their entire armory, presumably, does not make them better prepared.

The US military is all trannies, furries, and black women and now they don’t even have weapons.