Said

 

as much this morning when doing my "presentations" about the Spiritual Gift of the "Word of knowledge" before I ever saw the article.

Sweden reports fourth Nord Stream pipeline leak

"Germany’s security agencies believe the damage has made the offshore pipelines “unusable forever”, Tagesspiegel newspaper reported government officials as saying."

(How is that possible except by the spiritual gift of the "word of Knowledge?" is what I would be asking myself if I was you.)

And in other news:

The U.S. and Europe are running out of weapons to send to Ukraine

"NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg held a special meeting of the alliance’s arms directors to discuss ways to refill member nations’ weapons stockpiles."

(Good luck,,,)

"In the U.S. weapons industry, the normal production level for artillery rounds for the 155 millimeter howitzer — a long-range heavy artillery weapon currently used on the battlefields of Ukraine — is about 30,000 rounds per year in peacetime.

The Ukrainian soldiers fighting invading Russian forces go through that amount in roughly two weeks."

"That’s according to Dave Des Roches, an associate professor and senior military fellow at the U.S. National Defense University. And he’s worried."

"“I’m greatly concerned. Unless we have new production, which takes months to ramp up, we’re not going to have the ability to supply the Ukrainians,” Des Roches told CNBC."

"Europe is running low, too. “The military stocks of most [European NATO] member states have been, I wouldn’t say exhausted, but depleted in a high proportion, because we have been providing a lot of capacity to the Ukrainians,”"

(We are not going to have time to "ramp up" our adversaries will simply not allow it to happen. They know the pickle were in and they will exploit it to their full advantage.)

"NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg held a special meeting of the alliance’s arms directors on Tuesday to discuss ways to refill member nations’ weapons stockpiles."

"Military analysts point to a root issue: Western nations have been producing arms at much smaller volumes during peacetime, with governments opting to slim down very expensive manufacturing and only producing weapons as needed. Some of the weapons that are running low are no longer being produced, and highly skilled labor and experience are required for their production — things that have been in short supply across the U.S. manufacturing sector for years."

(That guy in Russia that everybody is/was laughing at? Yeah, think he doesn't know this?)

"And the Biden administration has said it will support its ally Ukraine for “as long as it takes” to defeat Russia. 

That means a whole lot more weapons. 

"The U.S. has essentially run out of the 155 mm howitzers to give to Ukraine; to send any more, it would have to dip into its own stocks reserved for U.S. military units that use them for training and readiness. But that’s a no-go for the Pentagon, military analysts say, meaning the supplies reserved for U.S. operations are highly unlikely to be affected."

"We need to put our defense industrial base on a wartime footing. And I don’t see any indication that we have.

Dave Des Roches

SENIOR MILITARY FELLOW, U.S. NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY"

(When you get to this point? It's already to late.)

“There are a number of systems where I think the Department of Defense has reached the levels where it’s not willing to provide more of that particular system to Ukraine,” said Mark Cancian, a former U.S. Marine Corps colonel and a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.  

That’s because “the United States needs to maintain stockpiles to support war plans,” Cancian said. “For some munitions, the driving war plan would be a conflict with China over Taiwan or in the South China Sea; for others, particularly ground systems, the driving war plan would be North Korea or Europe.”

The Javelin, produced by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, has gained an iconic role in Ukraine — the shoulder-fired, precision-guided anti-tank missile has been indispensable in combating Russian tanks. But production in the U.S. is low at a rate of around 800 per year, and Washington has now sent some 8,500 to Ukraine, according to the CSIS — more than a decades’ worth of production."

(Like I said, it WAS a special military operation just like they said it was and it's bled us dry.)

"Other weapons Ukraine relies on that are now classified as “limited” in the U.S. inventory include HIMARS launchers, Javelin missiles, Stinger missiles, the M777 Howitzer and 155 mm ammunition."

(As in we can not afford to give them any more.)

"President Joe Biden visited a Javelin plant in Alabama in May, saying he would “make sure the United States and our allies can replenish our own stocks of weapons to replace what we’ve sent to Ukraine.” But, he added, “this fight is not going to be cheap.” 

(That was a big part of the calculus there big guy.)

The Pentagon has ordered hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of new Javelins, but ramping up takes time — the numerous suppliers that provide the chemicals and computer chips for each missile can’t all be sufficiently sped up. And hiring, vetting and training people to build the technology also takes time. It could take between one and four years for the U.S. to boost overall weapons production significantly, Cancian said.

(And we are over here like, it's all okay, we got the time, we got this, when nothing could be farther from the truth.)

(If that doesn't just sum it up right there. Forget about everything else, invest in defense stocks, you can make $ off of this.)

"A Lockheed Martin spokesman, when contacted for comment, referenced an April interview during which the company’s CEO, Jim Taiclet, told CNBC: “We’ve got to get our supply chain ramped up, we’ve got to have some capacity, which we’re already investing to do. And then the deliveries happen, say, six, 12, 18 months down the road.”

(Everybody that thinks we got that long raise your hands.)

“There is sufficient time to resolve that problem before it becomes critical in terms of stepping up manufacture,” Watling said, (Jack Watling, an expert on land warfare at the Royal United Services Institute in London)  noting that Kyiv can source certain ammunition from countries that don’t immediately need theirs, or whose stocks are about to expire.

“So we can continue to supply Ukraine,” Watling said, “but there is a point where especially with certain critical natures, the Ukrainians will need to be cautious about their rate of expenditure and where they prioritize those munitions, because there isn’t an infinite supply.”

"There is sufficient time to resolve that problem..."

(No there isn't.)

Lets review shall we?

One side is giving the finger to the UN by starting to stage phony "referendums" on the day of the security council meeting, staging a military build up in Belarus that we are not being told anything about, has technology deployed in Kaliningrad that NATO not only doesn't have but has no defense for, has parts of its navy in the Mediterranean, and Black seas as well as the Sea of Azoz, some equipped with cruise missiles, has issued a partial call up of reservist with military experience, and just made two gas pipelines to Europe "unusable forever." (That was a big one BTW, the Russians are saying "never again" will our affordable oil and gas go to the EU. There will be more than enough demand in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa to make up for the loss of demand.)

Now lets look at the other side:

Their surplus of arms is now gone. They are spending $ they can not afford to and the SPR is at its lowest level in 35 years.

Oh and the embargo against Russian oil starts in December and meanwhile China is eyeing Taiwan and...

I think you get the point.

Godspeed everybody.

Journey well my friends.

I love you baby.