Reply To: Russian Tensions
Is it likely that Russia will invade NATO in the near future?
As you keep saying, Russia is not the aggressor, so present shortages are not an immediate critical issue. It simply supports all those who say that NATO is not a threat to Russia.
On the other hand, if a war did unexpectedly break out, it does raise the prospect of nuclear weapons being used to compensate for the lack of conventional supplies. Without sufficient 155mm shells, a tactical nuke may well be employed.
Stockpiles of weaponry are being depleted but NATO members have all committed to increasing their military budgets and are ordering new armaments from manufacturers. It will take time for them to be produced to replenish. But it will happen.
Perhaps the time-line may not be sufficient to save Ukraine from the anticipated Russian offensive, but it does not mean that NATO is being demilitarised.
On the contrary.
NATO is on course to enlarge its membership with Finland and Sweden planning to join.
The lesson being learned is that the expenditure of ammunition in today’s modern war is vast, much more than war-games had foreseen.
Do you think NATO countries will not take such lessons into consideration when they re-stock and re-arm themselves?
For the working class, it means that national budgets will be adjusted with less GDP spent on social welfare and much more spent on the military.
Tanks for nothing, Putin and Zelensky, for putting more money into the coffers of the armament industry and less into health, education and the elderly.
Something to be proud of.
As always, it is the workers who pay the price of war.
