Former adviser to the head of the Pentagon: Aid to Ukraine can leave the United States without ammunition against the backdrop of a possible conflict with China

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The United States could run out of munitions in a potential conflict with China by shipping too much to Ukraine. This was stated by the former adviser to the US Secretary of Defense in the administration of Donald Trump Douglas McGregor.

The former colonel expressed fears that the United States, sending large amounts of ammunition to Ukraine in an effort to "contain Russia", may themselves be left without the required number of shells and missiles against the backdrop of a potential conflict with China in the Taiwan Strait. In his opinion, the rate of expenditure of missiles and shells in Ukraine is too high and could threaten the US arsenals. In the event of a collision, this will greatly limit the capabilities of the American fleet.



Based on the rate of consumption of ammunition and high-precision systems weapons of all types in Ukraine, the current US stockpile of precision-guided missiles and munitions will be quickly depleted

- he said.

But NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who has not been seen or heard for a very long time, believes that the West needs to continue to support Ukraine, despite the consequences. According to him, the price of refusing to help Ukraine "will be too high." At the same time, he could not give a forecast on the timing of the end of the conflict in Ukraine.

It is impossible to predict how long the war in Ukraine will continue and what the long-term consequences will be. It is important to continue to support Ukraine, no matter how much it takes. Of course, all the military, economic and humanitarian support we provide to Ukraine comes at a high cost, but the cost of not supporting Ukraine would be much greater.

- said the representative of NATO.
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  1. +13
    10 August 2022 07: 31
    Oh, come on, yeah, the USA is tearing the last from the heart, it seems to me that this is another "Yaroslavna's cry" too tidbits now in the military-industrial complex of the West break off everyone and in a hurry to cling to the feeder.
    1. +8
      10 August 2022 07: 34
      Yes Yes Yes
      Iraq Afghanistan was enough, but here they have direct ammunition like in Estonia or Latvia
      1. +4
        10 August 2022 07: 39
        Quote: Dimachrus
        Iraq Afghanistan was enough, but here they have direct ammunition like in Estonia or Latvia

        The states have enough ammunition for another 10 years of the Ukrainian war. They will replace everything with a shelf life with new ones, and everything will be at the expense of Ukraine (more precisely, they will be written off to it).
      2. 0
        10 August 2022 07: 47
        Where are the states and where is China, what kind of war between them. Well, if only to "leave" missiles. They have love to the grave ...
        1. +3
          10 August 2022 08: 09
          Quote: marchcat
          Where are the states and where is China, what kind of war between them. Well, if only to "leave" missiles. They have love to the grave ...

          Where are the states and where is the USSR / Russia. But it didn't and doesn't bother them. So why would China be different?
          1. -1
            10 August 2022 08: 15
            The width of the Bering Strait is 96 km. So, close neighbors, unlike China.
            1. +2
              10 August 2022 08: 21
              Quote: marchcat
              The width of the Bering Strait is 96 km. So, close neighbors, unlike China.

              If you are talking about us and America, then the nearest place is 4 km. distance.
            2. 0
              10 August 2022 10: 54
              Quote: marchcat
              The width of the Bering Strait is 96 km. So, close neighbors, unlike China.

              Let's take into account Chinatowns in US cities then ....
              Fundamentally, what is there overseas, what is there. That is no difference. This is for your phrase about where China is
    2. 0
      10 August 2022 08: 26
      Previously, the fabrications of ex-generals were printed at least ... Now it’s ex-colonels ...
      Or ex-generals, too, in short supply?
  2. +4
    10 August 2022 07: 32
    What a strange statement. Where and how is the US Army going to use 155-mm shells and Spear anti-tank systems in the fight for Taiwan?
    In this case, they will need the Kyrgyz Republic more, including anti-ship missiles, missiles and aviation, but somehow they haven’t sent anything to Ukraine yet
  3. +2
    10 August 2022 07: 32
    Especially since the source wink former polkan.)))
    1. +1
      10 August 2022 07: 41
      Quote: Murmur 55
      Moreover, the source is a former polkan.)))

      The pensioner's hamstrings shook. Yes, he is not worried about the Chinese conflict, but about the fact that the Russians will answer. It's just scarier to say it out loud.
  4. +1
    10 August 2022 07: 33
    Populism and more!
    1. 0
      10 August 2022 07: 39
      Sergio7 hi, rather, an injection, so that the already huge US military budget is increased by another couple of percent, business and nothing personal, and the polkan is just the mouthpiece of one of the US military corporations.
      1. 0
        11 August 2022 23: 40
        so after the service they go to corporations which they licked during the service
  5. 0
    10 August 2022 07: 42
    The United States could run out of munitions in a potential conflict with China by shipping too much to Ukraine.
    The situation with b / n in the Americans is, of course, much better than in European countries, which really cost a lot on supplies to Ukraine. But they have expired or expiring items that still need to be replaced and deliveries will of course continue. On the other hand, in the American and European media, articles about the limit of the possibilities of supplying weapons and other equipment to Ukraine began to appear more and more often, so as not to violate their combat readiness. And this may be a signal that soon Ukraine will have to tighten the military belt in connection with the reduction (cessation) of arms supplies.
  6. AAC
    +1
    10 August 2022 07: 50
    Strategically, it turns out that it will cost us almost nothing to denazify the whole of Europe, including foggy Albion. They will exhaust all their reserves, they will not be able to produce new ones due to lack of gas, and the red car will roll without encountering much resistance.
  7. +1
    10 August 2022 07: 51
    And how will they deliver ammunition to Taiwan if it is surrounded by a naval blockade of the PRC? So they puff out their cheeks ... The PRC will announce the NWO and oops., They arrived ..., only with a "kind" word and hysteria at the UN.
  8. +1
    10 August 2022 07: 55
    NATO will pay a double price, both for supporting the non-state and for abandoning it, after the completion of the NWO !!!!
  9. 0
    10 August 2022 08: 04
    Former adviser to the head of the Pentagon: Aid to Ukraine can leave the United States without ammunition against the backdrop of a possible conflict with China
    fool Helping Ukraine could make the US "friend" China. (the glass is half full recourse ) Give him Taiwan and quietly hide out of sight, assistants. angry
    In his opinion, the rate of expenditure of missiles and shells in Ukraine is too high and could threaten the US arsenals. In the event of a collision, this would greatly limit the capabilities of the American fleet.
    Oh lie, what pace? Taking into account 10 pieces exploded in warehouses. per day, this is 000 pieces. in year. And in 3 we used up - 600 million tons of shells! request Well, Great Dill, even before the war, she sold half of the warehouses, blew up the rest, processed the Donbass from the "wheels", but the Americans are not like that. feel
  10. -5
    10 August 2022 08: 09
    The capacities of NATO factories are many times greater than ours, they will still produce
  11. Two
    +1
    10 August 2022 08: 12
    hi They throw axes! They are not supplied to svidomites.
  12. +1
    10 August 2022 08: 21
    Aid to Ukraine could leave the US without ammunition

    ***
    - The cartridge can be left without cartridges ...
    ***
  13. +1
    10 August 2022 08: 22
    I wonder how big it is? Unsaid unfoundedness for internal debate from the next ex.
  14. +1
    10 August 2022 08: 31
    But NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who was not seen or heard for a very long time,
    - one asks, and why again got out of his mink?
    According to him, the price of refusing to help Ukraine "will be too high"
    - while continuing to support Ukraine, while losing equipment and ammunition, left (here we take it more broadly, add the EU, in the end - one gang) without our gas before the winter period and with the prospect of stopping part of the production of the same equipment and ammunition, not to mention already about the population of European countries, the price will be acceptable?! Yes, Mr. Stol(B)tenberg justifies the paraphrased saying: "The more NATO oaks, the stronger our(!) defense!"
  15. 0
    10 August 2022 08: 31
    This is what the US military-industrial complex is waiting for, they will launch lines, modernize production for future conflicts at public expense, and earn more money. The technology has been worked out,
    It is not for nothing that smoldering conflicts suddenly began to light up all over the world
  16. +1
    10 August 2022 08: 34
    Former adviser to the head of the Pentagon: Aid to Ukraine can leave the United States without ammunition against the backdrop of a possible conflict with China
    . Now there are so many different opinions / statements, for every taste and color!
    Where is the truth here, go figure it out?
    1. +1
      10 August 2022 08: 55
      Ф
      ..... different opinions ...

      The impression is that these different opinions are in the interests of different manufacturers, different financial circles, and different politicians. Everyone promotes their own interests, as if, in the first place
      1. +1
        10 August 2022 09: 18
        Dmitry, the question is not simple. There are no simple solutions either.
        Now the times are such that the ruling, with all their desire, do not want / will not be able to follow the lead of some one group without prejudice to the interests of others !!! This is fraught with social and other indignations, and even worse.
        1. +1
          10 August 2022 09: 30
          Quote: rocket757
          .... they don’t want / can’t follow the lead of one group without prejudice to the interests of others !!! This is fraught with social and other indignations, ....

          recourse however, about the green reform, they somehow united No. and now they continue to balk.
          1. +1
            10 August 2022 10: 01
            Little tricks in a big "friendly" company!
            Stripes from the green agenda really wanted to fuck, and EVERYONE!!!
            And at home, they are not so simple, definitely!
            There are "green" ones for the whole head, but there are enough others, others.
            They do not destroy their energy and so on, but they try to pull all the tastiest things onto themselves, even from their "partners"!
            About the Gay Europeans and some others who rushed to fulfill their instructions, we will soon see how they begin to grumble, not childishly! The beginning has already been made, we are waiting for the continuation.
            1. +1
              10 August 2022 10: 10
              Quote: rocket757
              ..... they are trying to take over all the most delicious things, even from their "partners"!
              About the Gay Europeans and some others who rushed to fulfill their instructions, we will soon see how they begin to grumble, not childishly! The beginning has already been made, we are waiting for the continuation.

              Someone already crying crying cried.
              I'm leaving now hi
              1. +1
                10 August 2022 10: 25
                Soon they will start to run amok .... as it gets colder, so immediately!
                1. +1
                  13 August 2022 16: 37
                  Just now the bell has sounded! Ours did not sign, they vetoed the creation of a universal green police. The globalists had such plans
                  1. +1
                    13 August 2022 18: 13
                    The movements of our leadership are multidirectional and without the most formidable roar from above, things are slowing down, in many places!
                    The trouble is that they get used to the formidable market, adapt and begin to twirl in their own way !!! Believe me, there are many examples.
                    Until the tails, the most cunning, begin to shorten, to the very ears, the situation will not change, no way!
                    1. +1
                      13 August 2022 19: 00
                      Yes Victor, I agree.
                      .... they get used to the formidable roar, adapt ....

                      There is sabotage, resistance ..... and for the rejection of the lapdog it will be ..... besides, inertia .. we will see a lot of things.
                      1. +1
                        13 August 2022 19: 31
                        We have strictly holes that need to be repaired capitally, qualitatively!!! One of the most important is the economy! The rest is no less important, but without correcting the main thing, the rest will be wasted, alas!
                      2. +1
                        13 August 2022 19: 53
                        I know the words
                        or we will do it, or we will be crushed

                        Then --- they could, they did it.
                      3. +1
                        13 August 2022 19: 59
                        Is it worth asking, comparing what kind of people were then and how are we with it now?
                      4. +1
                        13 August 2022 20: 22
                        Victor, I always think about it. You see, back then it was not just that people performed labor feats. The party carried out appropriate work, so that everything would not be out of hand. And now the impression is that, on the contrary, everything is being done to stupefy and even worse.
                      5. +1
                        13 August 2022 21: 59
                        I don’t want to dig into the past, because now the situation is different, people are also different!!!
                        We have to move forward right now and we have no other people.
                        Even turning everything upside down, we will not get the same results as then, because the basis for any accomplishments is prepared in advance and this is not fast, as a rule!
                      6. +1
                        13 August 2022 22: 45
                        Never before has there been such a Western-style government in RUSSIA as after the destruction of the USSR.
                      7. +1
                        13 August 2022 22: 57
                        No, no, it happened DIFFERENTLY in the Russian Empire !!! Unfortunately, you cannot put the rulers of that time in one row, national patriots ... there were enough of everyone.
                      8. +1
                        13 August 2022 23: 07
                        So many $$$, €€€€ and other foreign property, as well as relatives and dual citizenship, have never been at the top of Russia. And traitors negative negative negative specific too
  17. 0
    10 August 2022 08: 59
    So everything runs great. The United States is systematically putting on a stretch.
    On the one hand, you need to help the Hohlastan, on the other hand, replenish the ammunition. So it turns out to be absurd, in the world there is a crisis in income, a drop in living standards, and the states, instead of investing in their economy, industry, infrastructure, etc., etc., need to be spent on ammunition.
    I do not understand why the Russian Federation has not yet banned the export of uranium to the United States, it is high time to do this so that they restore their arsenals with an even greater energy deficit than it is today.
    In the end, the US population should feel in their own skin the choice of their government, in the direction of guns, then you look and there will be a fight for real oil in supermarkets.
  18. 0
    10 August 2022 12: 17
    Gentlemen must be trusted. Why am I "ex" again?
  19. 0
    11 August 2022 23: 37
    for 12 dead uncles - deposits of all kinds of resources have already been lost in Ukraine - the Americans themselves considered some kind of magazine