‘Europe and NATO have known for years that interceptor production can’t keep up with demand and now disaster looms, putting us all in dange…
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Europe does make up 30 of 32 countries in NATO so it has to take a good part of the responsibility for this failure of planning on ballistic missile defense. Europe has also thrown hundreds of billions of euro/etc on recent defence spending but BMD is not nearly treated with the urgency it demands.
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Great article, thanks for posting. The Americans determined some 40+ years ago that the threat from MRBMs and conventionally armed ICBMs was going to expand rapidly, and so started an extensive anti-ICBM program. The knowledge was out there for awhile, but the warning was ignored.
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How is it Europe that has failed? NATO maybe. As far as we have been told: - It has "only" been 4 years since the War in Ukraine has grown to a scale where they are needed. Funnily enough making your own alternative to all the systems that are suddenly in short supply takes time. And ramping it up is a mess of licenses fully under US control and…
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'At this point, Kyiv must plan for a winter with severely disrupted power, and disperse and fortify life-support systems such as water, sanitation, power and heating.' Read Jack Watling's latest opinion piece for @theguardian.com on Ukraine's diminishing supply of Patriot missiles.