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https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2022/august/dangerous-depletion-us-weapon-arsenals

The extent of U.S. weapons depletion to supply Ukraine is classified, but various defense analysts estimate that significant percentages of the U.S. strategic stockpiles of various weapons are depleted. While the primes report it will take up to two years to manufacture a production run of certain missiles provided to Ukraine, they are short-range missiles and relatively small from an energetics point of view.

The Navy recently established the Naval Energetics Executive Committee to examine and address the Navy’s posture on this subject. The committee was briefed on the arsenal situation and recommendations were made to address atrophied capabilities and capacities. However, follow-on actions to implement these recommendations remain at a standstill. The nation cannot afford to delay any longer the worked needed to revitalize the Navy’s arsenal. The Army recognized similar challenges with their arsenals over the past decade and already has begun to address its shortfalls. Navy-unique energetics components and systems made at NSWC IHD, however, remain at risk.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-joe-biden-policies/2023/02/21/id/1109489/

Former President Donald Trump early Tuesday warned that President Joe Biden's policies on Ukraine could lead to a third World War.

"If you watch and understand the moves being made by Biden on Ukraine, he is systematically, but perhaps unknowingly, pushing us into what could soon be WORLD WAR III," Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social page. "How crazy is that?"

Trump's comment came after Biden met with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday following a secretive trip to the war-torn nation's capital city of Kyiv, traveling there one day before Russian President Vladimir Putin's address to the nation and less than one week before the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.