Russia vs Ukraine Military Weaponry--The Issue of Scale...

by Andrei Martyanov at Reminiscence of the Future

Mr. Stoltenberg is an exhibit A of why Western “economics” education is primarily a fraud. Don’t look at me, an authority on economics orders of magnitude greater than me, Michael Hudson, also thinks so.

Ukraine is consuming an “enormous amount” of ammunition, and the West needs to boost production to keep up, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters on Monday. Stoltenberg also called on the bloc’s members to increase their intelligence efforts, accusing China and Russia of spying on them with balloons. “The war in Ukraine is consuming an enormous amount of ammunition,” he said ahead of a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels. “This puts our defense industries under strain,” he continued, adding that “we need to ramp up production and invest in our production capacities.” Stoltenberg then pledged, as he has repeatedly since Russia’s military operation in Ukraine began, that “NATO stands with Ukraine for as long as it takes.”

Remarkably, Jens Stoltenberg’s thesis title (from Oslo University) was, drum roll: Makroøkonomisk planlegging under usikkerhet. En empirisk analyse (“Macroeconomic planning under uncertainty. An empirical analysis”). One cannot make this shit up even if one tries. So, this “economics” graduate wrote a thesis on something that cannot be accomplished in the modern West because “macroeconomic planning” and the modern West are irreconcilable things. SMO exposed all superficiality and chaos of West’s economies dramatically.

Remarkably, Stoltenberg, complaining about VSU using “enormous amount” of ammunition, forgets a simple fact of life that Russian Armed Forces use ORDER OF MAGNITUDE than whatever is left of VSU-NATO cabal more, and Russia is not just feeling fine, but dramatically expands the production of every single military materiel and technology she needs. That’s real macroeconomic planning under uncertainty. But it is too late for Stoltenberg, and NATO in general, to learn now anything of substance about REAL war and REAL war economy. So, the only thing which is left is to spew propaganda which is increasingly detached, if not completely already, from economic and military realities on the ground. They DID miscalculate that badly, they ARE that ignorant–because the failure is systemic, across all institutions of the combined West, military included.

Well, USA Today begins to suspect things:…