NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has argued that the West should prepare for continued conflict in Ukraine and that member countries of the alliance will have to spend part of their GDP on defense spending and arms aid to be provided to Kiev. But Europeans and Americans cannot afford NATO's proxy war against Russia in Ukraine to last too long.

"If the West wants a protracted war and it seems that it does, it is because it is afraid of the defeat which seems inevitable at this time, the defeat of NATO in its proxy war against the Ukraine!" Said to Sputnik Professor Stevan Gajiс, a research associate at the Institute for European Studies in Belgrade.

"They will have to invest more in their industry, which is now a particularly difficult task since many Western countries have deindustrialized, since they have sent their industries abroad, especially to China and other Asian countries. I think the stocks that exist are the first to go. So they will be more and more empty" He continued.

On March 21, Stoltenberg unveiled its annual report for 2022 at a press conference in Brussels. The NATO chief said the alliance " is more unified than it has been since at least the end of the cold war and that she is ready to continue supporting kyiv in its conflict with Russia.

Stoltenberg said that if Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted "less NATO", he will soon have "more NATO on his doorstep" given the upcoming membership of Finland and Sweden in the bloc. Judging by the words of the NATO Secretary General, the alliance had long been preparing for a conflict with Russia:

"NATO has put in place the biggest reinforcement of our collective defense in a generation" said Stoltenberg. "So when the Russian tanks entered Ukraine, we were ready. Within hours, we activated our defense plans from the Baltic to the Black Sea."

He praised the Western collective's significant military assistance to Kyiv and revealed that the alliance is " agreeing new capacities for the production of combat-decisive ammunition and also engaging with industrialists to increase production and further support Ukraine in its conflict with Russia.

Stoltenberg noted that many NATO allies have pledged to increase their defense spending on the Russian special operation in Ukraine: Now those promises must turn into real money, concrete contracts and equipment, because defense spending underpins everything we do. He explained.

Earlier, the EU reached an agreement to send Ukraine one million cartridges in the next 12 months. The new plan will therefore consist in the donation of ammunition from its own stocks by the EU to kyiv and also the purchase of new shells for Ukraine.

Neither the US nor the EU can quickly replenish dwindling ammunition.

The reality is not as rosy as described by the NATO chief, notes Professor Gajiс.

"I think we can already see that NATO and the United States are trying to find weapons wherever they [can]" noted the Serbian researcher. 

Olaf Scholz has traveled to Latin America to conduct such cases, but with little or no success. They are trying to do the same thing in Africa and all over Asia. So far, it seems that they have succeeded only with shells from Pakistan and only because of internal unrest in that country, which was in many ways caused by the United States. I still think that South Korea and Japan could also be interested in supplying weapons to NATO.

According to Gajiс, the US military-industrial complex is not yet fully operational.

"EU says it will buy shells, but where from?" asks Matthew Gordon-Banks, former British Conservative MP and Senior Fellow at the UK Defense Academy, who added: “Provisions do not exist to be able to buy."

Western media have repeatedly warned that Ukraine is burning its ammunition faster than the United States and NATO can replicate. According to the American press, in order to continue supplying ammunition to the Kiev regime and to replenish its own stocks, the Pentagon plans to substantially increase the production of ammunition and to put sections of the American defense industry "on a war footing". when he's technically not at war. In particular, the US Army is planning a 500% increase in artillery shell production, from 15 a month to 000, as Army Acquisition Chief Doug Bush told US media. last month.

"It will take ten years for the United States to replace spent inventory at current production levels", underlined the former British legislator.

The situation is growing increasingly desperate for kyiv as Russian forces continue their offensive and encircle Bakhmut, also known as Artemovsk, according to Gordon-Banks.

"Ukraine lacks manpower, ammunition and especially artillery shells", he said.

"The idea that the EU, America or anyone else can fill in those gaps ahead of a major Russian offensive when weather and ground conditions improve is nonsense. The more the Americans insist, the more Ukrainians die in this conflict".

"Generally, the United States is in a bad situation with regard to its world domination, the evaporation of the petrodollar and other significant tectonic changes, those which were announced by President Xi at the end of his visit to Russia." Gajiс said, referring to the last meeting between President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. "In the long term, the only real beneficiary in the United States will be the military-industrial complex. Maybe all of this is bad news for Wall Street, but it certainly isn't for the military-industrial complex, which will have lucrative deals." 

The US economy is still overwhelmed by inflation while a full fledged banking crisis could also soon unfold in the country, as international observers are warning. The country faces a multi-faceted economic crisis, while Europe, already suffering from higher inflation, braces for a spillover of the US banking mess into EU economies.

Demonstrations against falling living standards and against further spending on the Western proxy war in Ukraine have taken place across the European continent in recent months.

The peoples of Europe are fed up with falling living standards and a lack of cheap energy while their leaders support kyiv in the ongoing conflict, according to Gordon-Banks.

In fact, the EU continues to support the Kyiv region because European politicians have their "political skin" at stake in the West's proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, Gajiс said. If kyiv loses, what the Serbian academic thinks is inevitable is that these European officials will then become “political losers”.

"Therefore, they will push the agenda to the end. This is why they see it as a personal interest. Although objectively speaking, this is completely against the interests of their own country!" Gajis concluded.

source: Pars today

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