The Biden administration delayed the shipment of some 3,500 bombs to Israel that U.S. officials worried could be used in Rafah, an official tells ABC News.
More plausibly, US has now run through its stocks of weapons sending them to Ukraine, and doesn’t have the weapons to send. Framing it as refusing to send the weapons because US all of a sudden developed a conscience is a way to avoid admitting this.
More plausibly, US has now run through its stocks of weapons sending them to Ukraine, and doesn’t have the weapons to send. Framing it as refusing to send the weapons because US all of a sudden developed a conscience is a way to avoid admitting this.
That is the most wildly implausible thing I’ve read on Lemmy today.
Western media openly admits that US isn’t able to keep up with ammunition production for Ukraine. Try keep up with the real world.
Yes, but that only applies to artillery shells and there’s a very good reason.
I do, which is why I know that things like JDAMS are entirely unconstrained. The U.S. has hundreds of thousands of them lying around.
Reason being lack of industrial capacity. And it’s not just artillery shells, it’s a systemic problem https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/attritional-art-war-lessons-russian-war-ukraine
Not really unconstrained given that US has delusions about fighting China. Also, how many of those still work is a question.