Following Jens Stoltenberg’s warning that Western ammunition production is not up to Ukraine’s needs in the war, Major General Arnaut Moreira sees this as “proof that the war is accelerating” and ” there is no guarantee that NATO will not get involved.”
“All this activity of yours can only be understood as a warning that nothing guarantees that NATO will not get involved in this war. Even against its will. NATO has no desire to enter the conflict, but it can come against it. their willingness to be called upon to enter the conflict”, Arnaut Moreira told TSF.
The Major General explains that this is where the NATO Secretary General comes in, since “it is he who, in moments of crisis, has to manage, make announcements, make requests and alert so that the countries that have commitments to NATO are in a position to meet those commitments”.
“In a moment of crisis like the one we are experiencing, with news every day, with this new capacity or the possibility of opening a destabilization in Moldova, all this has the necessary ingredients for NATO to be very attentive. It is not. It is only from the point of view of intelligenceit is to be attentive in terms of its ability to respond in a timely manner ”, he adds.
For Arnaut Moreira, the NATO Secretary General’s warning “is the confirmation that the war is accelerating”, both in its “intensity” and “in the speed with which new elements are arriving, above all, human resources for the war”. part of the Russian Federation”.
“The Western response also has to speed up its processes. And what are those processes? They are two-tier processes. First of all, it is the acceleration of industrial capacity for the production of weapons. This ability was very latent. the enormous consumption that a war of high attrition implies. On the other hand, the question of the delivery of the material”, refers the major general.
The second process is something that Arnaut Moreira has been warning about: “On the other hand, the issue of the delivery of material. I have already said several times that the state of maintenance of many of the military equipment distributed throughout European countries seems absolutely incredible to me. “. .their lack of maintenance and preparation prevents their delivery on time. Many of the issues that are related to the delay in the shipment of these materials are due to the fact that they are active, but not operational, so they had to suffer a delay to put them operational to be delivered.”
“This is worrying for the NATO Secretary General, because these are the materials that NATO would have in case it had to intervene,” he considers.
Jens Stoltenberg advocated reinforcing the production of large-calibre ammunition and, for Arnaut Moreira, the NATO Secretary General could be talking about artillery.
“I assume you are mainly talking about artillery shells, because of all the consumables that war needs, it is probably the most crucial in this phase of combat. The successive advance in the Bakhmut region of the dismounted infantry by the Russian Federation. and their willingness to accept whatever death toll there has to be means that Ukrainian artillery capability at the moment is weaker than it should be. We do not know if it is due to a lack of parts or ammunition, consumables, which are artillery shells, it is undoubtedly one of the alert priorities,” the division general believes.
For Arnaut Moreira, the commitments of the countries with NATO are written, the important thing is to fulfill them, with emphasis on the production of weapons.
Source: TSF
