I know that this is from the Torygraph (Telegraph) but this anonymous quote from an anonymous senior military official constitutes a statement against interest.
He said that the UK has run out of weapon stocks to the Ukraine.
This is a kind of war that no one in the West has fought in more than a generation.
Britain has run out of defence equipment to donate to Ukraine and other countries should step in and shoulder more of the burden, a senior military chief has said.
The comments come after Ben Wallace revealed that he asked Rishi Sunak to spend £2.3 billion more on support for Ukraine before he resigned as defence secretary last month.
Mr Wallace warned that the UK had been overtaken by Germany as the biggest European military donor to Ukraine as he called for the 50 per cent increase on funding that the UK has committed so far.
The Western alliance has suffered a series of blows in recent days, with support for Ukraine dropped from a US stop-gap budget bill, election success for a pro-Russian party in Slovakia and rows between Poland and Kyiv over grain supplies.
On Monday, the Kremlin claimed that Western fatigue with the war “will grow”. The White House replied that Vladimir Putin was wrong to think he could outlast the pro-Kyiv alliance.
Last night a senior military source told The Telegraph that the onus should not be on the UK to provide the “billions” Mr Wallace has called for.
“Giving billions more doesn’t mean giving billions of British kit,” they said, adding that the UK had a role to play in “encouraging other nations to give more money and weapons”.
“We’ve given away just about as much as we can afford,” they added.
This is what near peer wars look like, and the US and NATO are completely unprepared for this.
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I take it you approve that neither the US or Nato are prepared.
Mind, looks like the Czar wasn't prepared either.
No, I don't approve. The US military industrial complex going the whole Wunderwaffe route was always a disaster for everyone but the defense contractors and the general officers who get rich in retirement.
The wonder weapon strategy did not work for the Krauts either.
One would hope that the US and NATO learn from this, but we didn't after getting beaten in Vietnam, so I am not optimistic.
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