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US can't produce as much munitions as Russia, even though US spends $800B+/y on defence 🤡 (www.youtube.com)

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[–] DiggV4 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

The actual article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/weapons-contractors-price-gouging-pentagon-60-minutes-transcript-2023-05-21/

No mention of Russia or $800 billion.

It's not even how you spell the guy's name.

Get better at propaganda.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Literally the first thing he says in the 60 minutes interview is that US is lagging behind Russia in producing munitions, meanwhile here's the DoD budget which is 842 billion.

On March 9, 2023, the Biden-Harris Administration submitted to Congress a proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Budget request of $842 billion for the Department of Defense (DoD), an increase of $26 billion over FY 2023 levels and $100 billion more than FY 2022.

Get better at trolling.

[–] DiggV4 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You intentionally posted some derived work that showed the actual interview in the background while some random guy told people what to think. Just post actual news.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What I posted is a clip from the 60 minutes interview with a Pentagon official responsible for procurement who plainly states that US lags behind Russia in ammunition production. This is actual news, not sure why you keep trying to pretend otherwise. Wonder what your agenda is here. 🤔

[–] DiggV4 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That isn't what you did, and you know it. It's someone else speaking over the video footage. Someone who couldn't even spell the interviewee's name right.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nothing that I said is factually incorrect. Ukraine is currently firing 110k shell a month:

At the start of March, Ukraine was reportedly firing 110,000 artillery shells a month, and requested allies to supply enough to bring that number up to 250,000. According to British analysts, Ukraine’s artillery usage would exhaust the entire UK stockpile in eight days.

US is hoping to produce 20k shells a month at some point:

U.S. officials say they hope soon to be producing 20,000 shells per month from U.S. plants, rising to 40,000 within two years – a programme that requires new factories, new machine tools and a desperate search for staff in an environment where arms firms find vacancies difficult to fill.

https://www.reuters.com/world/global-ammunition-race-may-decide-ukraine-war-peter-apps-2023-05-04/

Meanwhile, here's the number of shells Russia was producing monthly before the war started, this has since increased

So, once again, I have to ask you what you think you're disputing here.

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