NATO’s 2024 Summit Fails to Deliver as Russia Continues Grinding Ukraine Down

– The Western media is now admitting to a wide variety of metrics indicating Ukraine’s spiral downward amid the ongoing conflict with Russia;

– Reports indicate not only manpower shortages but a problem with properly training conscripts for combat;

– Ukraine continues to suffer from a wide variety of arms and ammunition shortages, with the West now finally admitting Western military industrial production has categorically failed to meet the demands of the conflict in Ukraine;

– NATO’s summit in Washington DC pledged to expand Western military industrial production but failed to lay out any of the key steps required to do so beyond political posturing;

References:

DoD – Biden Administration Announces Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine (July 11, 2024):
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases…

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – EU Shell-Production Capacity, Supplies To Ukraine Fall Far Short Of Promises (July 8, 2024):
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-weapo…

Wall Street Journal – NATO Allies Confront ‘Serious Gap’ in Arms Production to Counter Russia (July 9, 2024):
https://www.wsj.com/world/nato-allies…

CSIS – The State of Russia’s Defense Industry After Two Years of War and Sanctions (June 25, 2024):
https://www.youtube.com/live/00tPLu0g…

WSJ – High-Tech American Weapons Work Against Russia—Until They Don’t (July 10, 2024
https://www.wsj.com/world/us-weapons-…

Bloomberg – Ukraine’s F-16 Ambitions Snarled by Language Barrier, Runways and Parts (July 12, 2024):
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl…

Washington Post – Basic training in Ukraine is barely covering the basics, commanders say (June 2, 2024):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/…