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carpcrucible t1_jd27755 wrote

Not many, but we

  • don't need them if Ukraine uses them to fuck russia up
  • could've started the procurement immediately and not waited a year
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HappyAmbition706 t1_jd34xbd wrote

To be fair, not too many could predict that Ukraine would still be there 2 weeks in. And Afghanistan was fresh in mind, or South Vietnam.

Production at the rates that Ukraine uses, needs and will need when they go back on offence isn't something that can be kept up during peacetime, nor maintaining the unused capacity to do it when there is not such war or buyers.

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VastFair8982 t1_jd4x0nt wrote

2 weeks in? They could have done it 6 fucking months into this thing and this wouldn’t be a problem.

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