As I

 

was saying about Tiger tanks in WW2.

The Superpower That Can't Arm Itself

I first read this article on my phone afew days ago.

When I tried to access it on The Nation Review website at the library yesterday it said I had already read all the free articles I could for this month, so I couldn't access it yesterday.

Today in a google search the article shows up on The las Vegas Review Journal.

Albeit with one major omission that I have the screen shot of to show you.

I wonder why that is?

Almost like some people dont want you to know something.

Go figure right?

Romans 10:9-11.

That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.

"The Hamas terror attack, together with the ongoing Ukraine war and the looming Chinese threat to Taiwan, is putting a spotlight on the pitiful state of our capacity to manufacture the weapons necessary to the defense of our allies and ourselves."

(Come explain to me how our adversaries weren't aware of this and haven't exploited it to their advantage, love to hear it.)

"According to a CNN report, an Israel ground invasion of Gaza would "create a new and entirely unexpected demand for 155 mm artillery ammunition and other weapons at a time when the U.S. and its allies and partners have been stretched thin from more than 18 months of fighting in Ukraine."

(Your argument is that wasn't the plan all along?

Interesting, please continue...)

"We are learning to our regret that we are using an attenuated, 

( 1. having been reduced in force, effect, or value.

"it appears likely that the courts will be given an attenuated role in the enforcement of these decisions"

of a signal, electric current, or other oscillation, reduced in amplitude.

"weak or attenuated signals"

of a pathogenic organism reduced in virulence, especially for use as a vaccine.

"attenuated strains of rabies virus"

2. thin or reduced in thickness.

"his attenuated fingers")

post- Cold War, "end of history" defense- industrial base to try to meet the security needs of a newly threatening international environment with the real risk of great-power conflict."

"It now should be a matter of the highest national priority to use every lever of government and the private sector to bolster the defense-industrial base in all its aspects."

(100% Wrong, we never should have let ourselves get into this position to begin with because it's to late already and our adversaries know it.

My dad, a mailman, with an associates degree from a community college, could figure this out 40+ years ago when we started all the off-shoring nonsense based on greed? No think tank talking head with multiple PHD's could see the writing on the wall? I wonder why that was?)

"We aren’t being asked, by the way, to fight a three-front war in Europe, the Middle East and Asia ourselves. No, the call is simply to provide arms to allies under attack or threat. If we can’t do that, what does it say about our status as the world’s pre-eminent power?"

(That were done the missiles just haven't started landing here yet. And you're worried about a job? It just boggles my mind.)

"In Ukraine, the hopes of Moscow for a lightning victory and of the West for a sweepingly successful Ukraine counteroffensive both appear to have come a cropper. Now, it’s a grinding artillery war. Ukraine is estimated to need 1.5 million shells a year, and has been firing as many as 6,000 a day. Russia was firing even more at the peak of its offensive."

"The United States had supplied 2 million artillery shells to Ukraine as of July, and has been scrounging around — along with other Western powers — to feed whatever supplies it can find into the maw of the war. It’s not that we have been completely asleep. The United States was making 14,500 shells a month at the beginning of 2023, and has roughly doubled that. We hope to get to 100,000 a month in 2025."

"If we can’t supply Ukraine, what if we become embroiled in a major war with China?"

(Just where are all the well paid talking heads on TV, social media etc telling you that this was the plan all along? Nobody could figure that out? I know one guy had it figured out way more early than most, he just happens to be the guy telling you that it was Turkey who orchestrated the Hamas attack in Israel, not Iran, go ahead, keep laughing etc...)

Here is the part that got edited out of the article 

and I got the screenshot to prove it:

"When it requires almost two years to manufacture

ONE

of the missiles."

What was the criticism about the Nazi Tiger tanks again?

"overengineered, 

using expensive materials 

and labor-intensive production methods."

"We are also in the bizarre position of being dependent on our potential enemy for the materials we’d need in a war with that enemy. China has a dominant position in the market for rare earth metals — so important to the production of high-end weapons — and is the world leader in cast products."

(A mailman 40 years ago could see it coming...He said, "This is just stupid, it will come back to haunt us", and that was just doing business with them (China) moving manufacturing overseas etc, We hadn't even started with the needing the rare earth metals yet, but even then he could see it's eventuality. )

"There is no easy way out of the hole we've dug ourselves. It will require more spending on defense; more reliable, long-term contracts for the production of key weapons; a focus on securing the supply chain necessary to the production of high-tech munitions; and assistance to manufacturers in training workers, among other things."

(In other words, all the things we should have been doing all along but chose not to out of arrogance and greed.)

"The history of empires and nations that don't mind the need 

for up-to- date weapons 

at the scale necessary 

to defeat or deter adversaries 

isn't a happy one."

(Truer words could not have been said. 

Welcome to our fate.)

"It's in our power to avoid this fate - 

if we have the will and don't waste more time."

(We simply dont have the means 

to do the things listed above 

that we need to do.

Our populace doesn't have the will to do whats needed.

And we simply dont have the time.)

Journey well my friends.

Godspeed everybody.

ps

I wonder why that part about expending all our long range anti-ship missiles in a week got edited out of this piece and who did it?

You really think there's not censorship in this country?