The West’s explosives shortage revealed by the Ukraine war is a Massive concern! But an even more Massive concern is that the West clearly has a shortage of analysts and planners to foresee this situation. What should we expect when after the fall of the USSR the West pulled the Soviet satellite states into the NATO park through their pfp programme? Did we expect a nice shining new buffer zone for free? But it is going to be politically unacceptable to increase the NATO subscription to 7% of GDP, even though we CAN afford it.
The West’s explosives shortage revealed by the Ukraine war is a Massive concern! But an even more Massive concern is that the West clearly has a shortage of analysts and planners to foresee this situation. What should we expect when after the fall of the USSR the West pulled the Soviet satellite states into the NATO park through their pfp programme? Did we expect a nice shining new buffer zone for free? But it is going to be politically unacceptable to increase the NATO subscription to 7% of GDP, even though we CAN afford it.
A critical and important wake up call for both western Europe but America especially if it intends to defend Taiwan.