Europe and the US ‘have failed’ to ramp up military production for Ukraine | John Herbst

“We know that if we wound up in a war, whether it were with Russia or China, we would need the all the armaments which we are currently not building.”

A lack of military production since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine leaves the US and Europe on the back foot if they were to go to war with Putin or Xi Jinping, says John Herbst, former US Ambassador to Ukraine.

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