https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2022/07/11/is-the-west-running-out-of-ammunition-to-supply-ukraine/

  • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    It's gonna come out that there are deals in place where arms dealers are paid to maintain stockpiles of munitions or at least have extra manufacturing capacity on hand in case of a sudden rise in demand, but that instead of sticking to them they just took the money and then sold all those stockpiles and extra machines and instead are operating on a just-in-time manufacturing paradigm like every other business, isn't it?

      • jabrd [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        This is such a huge clusterfuck yet also incredibly predictable to the point of being uninteresting news. They’re really just arming the next few decades of global conflict with the newest weapons and wiping their hands of it as a job well done. I said it in the opening weeks of the war but I’m excited for the new season of 24 featuring eastern european terror cells in our inevitable futures

          • jabrd [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Nah, once an errant stinger missile blows up an american jet or some other sufficiently big terror attach we’ll have a new cast of enemies. If american cinema has taught us anything it’s that we just want to watch the same movie over and over again but we need new characters to not get bored