Adviser to the Head of the Presidential Office (OP) Aleksei Arestovich in an interview with “Israel’s Best Radio” explained why the Western countries are rapidly reducing the supply of weapons to Ukraine.
There are simply no more surplus weapons left in the arsenals of the West, Arestovich said. He noted that Western countries were rich in weapons before the collapse of the Soviet Union, and then came the “end of history” declared by Francis Fukuyama, and everyone decided there was no longer a threat and became disarmed.
“They just don’t have it. There’s no mystery about it. The fact is that Western countries were well supplied with arms in the mid-eighties, when they were preparing to confront a five-million-strong Soviet army pounding the English Channel in a fortnight. Then they decided that the end of history had come, Fukuyama officially announced it to them, sealed it and everybody disarmed,” Arestovich said.
He added that the Western countries mostly rely on the air force. Artillery is very much auxiliary forces for them. And in the Soviet model, which is predominantly implemented by the Ukrainian army, the main bet is precisely on artillery.
“They are not supplying planes yet, not even in such quantities. It is possible to supply planes, it is impossible to supply a system of aviation application, training, on which they have spent hundreds of billions of dollars and many, many years,” Arestovich specified.
He noted that Ukraine has asked for supplies of ground artillery, but, he said, even the United States and leading European countries have very little artillery.
“An eloquent example is France. “CAESAR is an excellent howitzer, maybe the best machine in its class. They have given us 18 of the 90 that France has in service. It’s a very complicated story. They have given us a fifth,” he stated.
Earlier, the influential US publication Politico cited data from the Kiel Institute as saying that Europe’s collective military-industrial complex probably reached the peak of exhaustion in mid-summer – in July the six largest EU countries did not promise Ukraine any new military assistance. The publication concludes that this may mean a full-scale curtailment of the aid programme for the Ukrainian army due to the obvious futility of its fight.
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