Emergency weapons set aside for Israel clandestinely diverted to Ukraine
The Biden administration has exploited the Jewish Sabbath to clandestinely ship emergency-use munitions out of Israeli depots for transfer to Ukraine. Israel Hayom reported on the “dwindling” supply and the absence of a schedule for replenishment.
The amount of US munitions stored in Israel has been dwindling due to the Ukraine war and it is still unclear when it will be replenished. . . . [T]he depots storing US munitions in Israel had been partially tapped in order to help Ukraine fend off the Russian invasion.
These arms are meant to provide Israel, one of America's strongest allies and a bulwark against Marxist expansion in the Middle East, with the means to defend itself against the risk of running out of armaments during a potential invasion by the armies of multiple nations combined with missile attacks from Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south.
The depots are officially designated as US military storage facilities and as such enjoy diplomatic immunity under bilateral agreements with Israel. The implicit understanding between Jerusalem and Washington over many decades has been that the munitions there would be earmarked for Israel in times of emergency if the Jewish state faces a major attack along the scale as the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when it faced a combined invsasion [sic] by Syria and Egypt.
In the stillness of the Sabbath
Administration officials sought to keep this alarming information out of the news.
[S]ome of the munitions have been shipped out in recent months through the Port of Ashdod – mainly on Saturdays – to avoid drawing media attention.
Changing priorities
The Israeli paper noted that the administration's move represents more than just a tactical decision to divert weapons to Ukraine but rather a policy shift by the White House away from its most reliable supporter in the UN, sometimes the only nation to vote with the US.
Israel Hayom framed the move in terms of administration “priorities”.
Change of priorities
A defense official said that the White House made the decision to shift resources outside of Israel to another front, but in light of Israel's fragile security situation in recent weeks, this could have other effects. "These are Israel's reserve stockpiles for times of war," a former cabinet minister said. "The move has had a bigger implication in light of the threats on Israel in multiple theaters."
A US official confirmed this, telling Israel Hayom that "it is still not clear when the reserves will be restocked." The official added that this depends on the manufacturing pace in the US. The change is also part of the US pivot toward China and Ukraine, which has seen Washington put less of an emphasis on the Middle East.
The news site detailed the dangers posed by this policy “pivot”.
Former senior Israeli defense officials have noted that President Joe Biden's new set of priorities – including his cold shoulder to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by publicly saying he won't be invited to Washington soon – have had direct consequences on Israel's overall strategic situation in the region.
According to the officials, the administration's actions vis-a-vis Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states have allowed Iran to continue building up capabilities and has resulted in Sunni states restoring ties with Tehran and has made China a much more powerful player in the region.
The new attitude towards Israel may have already influenced its defense policy, as noted in a report on the recent Hamas attacks that went largely unanswered, though the piece itself failed to mention US policy.
Another Gaza war seemed inevitable earlier this week after terror groups in the coastal enclave began new rocket fire on southern Israel. . . . At least 11 people were injured in those rocket attacks. . . . Then came massive criticism of the Israeli government over its “weak response”.
Ukraine war longer than expected
The transfer of these munitions out of Israel was directly tied to America's commitments to arm Ukraine.
[T]he reason those munitions had been tapped is the ongoing shortage of reserve stockpiles in the West in the wake of the continued fighting in Ukraine.
The US turned to its weapons depots in Israel after months of shipping weapons to Ukraine faster than they can be replaced by military contractors. CNN reported on the dwindling supplies already in November 2022.
[T]he US is running low on some high-end weapons systems and ammunition available to transfer to Kyiv, three US officials with direct knowledge tell CNN.
The strain on weapons stockpiles – and the ability of the US industrial base to keep up with demand – is one of the key challenges facing the Biden administration as the US continues to send billions of dollars of weapons to Ukraine to support its fight against Russia. One of the officials said the stockpiles of certain systems are “dwindling” after nearly nine months of sending supplies to Kyiv during the high-intensity war, as there’s “finite amount” of excess stocks which the US has available to send.
The report went on to detail some of the weapons being depleted.
Among the weapons systems where there’s particular concern about US stockpiles meeting Ukrainian demands are 155mm artillery ammunition and Stinger anti-aircraft shoulder-fired missiles, the sources said.
Some sources also raised concerns about US production of additional weapons systems, including HARMs anti-radiation missiles, GMLRS surface-to-surface missiles and the portable Javelin anti-tank missiles – although the US has moved to ramp up production for those and other systems.
Controlled conflict
Depleting the US and its allies of critically needed weapons, and Americans of their taxpayer funds, is reason enough to halt the transfer of armaments to Ukraine. All the more so if the conflict is staged.
Frontline News has covered top KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn's warnings to the CIA in the 1960s that the Soviet Union was planning to fake its own collapse in order to receive Western aid while continuing to be led by the same communists who would self-identify as “former communists”. In fact, as noted in a Frontline News piece entitled, “Proof of controlled conflict in Ukraine,” Russian leader Vladimir Putin, “was not only a loyal KGB agent who rose to head the agency when it changed its name to the FSB, but he filled so many important government positions with KGB” agents that four out of five political leaders were former KGB agents.
Ukraine likewise remains under communist control, albeit less directly than Russia.
[M]any of the oligarchs who hold substantial sway over the government are actually “former communist big wigs from the Soviet time” who were given preferential treatment to allow them to make business deals unavailable to those unaffiliated with the communists.
One such Ukrainian oligarch is billionaire Ihor Kolomoyskyi . . . the only Ukrainian lender to receive permission from the National Bank of Ukraine to open an overseas branch, allowing it to become Ukraine’s largest commercial bank. . . . Kolomoyskyi also served as Zelensky’s benefactor.
Eventually, explained Golitsyn, Russia will recreate the Soviet Union. Several steps toward that goal have already taken place, as reported by Frontline News in, “US government props up ‘former communists’ despite defector’s warnings".
In 2000 Russia absorbed Belarus into the Union State, in 2008 it reoccupied some Georgian territories and in 2014 Russia annexed the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol.
Russia may or may not bring Ukraine back into its orbit during this round of fighting. But Russia has already achieved its goal of duping the West into supporting one side in the conflict with over $100 billion taxpayer dollars and military equipment on its way to communist controlled Ukraine, with the possibility of falling into the hands of communist controlled Russia. It would not be the first time American military equipment donated to one side of a conflict fell into the hands of the very power that the U.S. was ostensibly opposing. CNN even ran an article entitled, "Rifles, Humvees and millions of rounds of ammo: Taliban celebrate their new American arsenal."
Other motivations
Some journalists have noted other motives in the arming and funding of Ukraine. Twitter user Clandestine, for example, argues that the US wants to cover its tracks in Ukraine.
Now that I have everyone’s attention, allow me to address why US establishment politicians are sending tanks, jets, weapons, equipment, and $100+ billion to Ukraine. It has nothing to do with Ukrainian citizens, and everything to do with Deep State assets/secrets in Ukraine. . . .
They are trying to protect their assets/secrets in Ukraine. Most consequential of which is their biological activity.
Specifically, he argues, they are working to prevent exposure of American sponsored bioweapons labs.
Ukraine series
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