Joe Brunoli
2 min readMar 8, 2023

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There is absolutely nothing to support your assertions. You are simply regurgitating a dominant narrative wholly unsupported by the facts on the ground.

The US and NATO have spent the past 30 years planning and executing low level "counterinsurgency" wars against scattered tribes and small bands of extremists whose main arsenals consisted of RPGs and IEDs. The US has been designing vehicles to withstand mines and grenade fire. They have not been preparing for major force on force ground conflict in Europe.

The F-35 cannot possibly go up against the latest Russian jets - the purpose of the F-35 wqas never to defend the US against an enemy like Russia; it was designed to enrich the MIC and to assure that every Congressional district in the country had a role to play in its construction, so that every Congressman had a stake in allocating funds to its obscenely bloated budget. It cost $400 Billion to develop and each jet costs between $150 million and $350 million, depending on the variant. The Russian SU-36 costs $80 million and can be produced much faster.

Moreover, the US and NATO are running out of ammunition. Russia is firing 60,000 artillery and rocket shells per day, while Ukraine fires only 6,000. But evenb at that rate, NATO stockpiles will be completely depleted by June 2023.

You may have read where the US was buying artillery shells from South Korea "for Ukraine" and even drawing down its joint weapons stockpiles in Israel in order to supply the AFU.

And even then - it all ends in June, when the stocks run out. But don't believe me - you can just listen to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/17/politics/us-weapons-factories-ukraine-ammunition/index.html

And if NATO did go to war with Russia, it would run out of ammo in two days:

https://www.newsweek.com/nato-allies-would-run-out-ammunition-within-days-war-russia-report-says-1780851

It's one thing to blast poor people in sandals riding in pick-ups, which is what NATO have been doing for thr past 30 years. It si quote another to go up against a modern army with 1.5 million men under arms and virtually unlimited resources, which has been running their munitions factories 24/7 on a war basis for thw past 10 months.

But hey, I am sure, given what you believe, you can find a job at the Pentagon or MSNBC.

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Joe Brunoli
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