Since World War II, our national military strategy has been that we should be able to fight in two theaters simultaneously: a war in Europe and a war somewhere else. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen also recently stated that the U.S. can afford to support both Israel and Ukraine's military needs because our economy has been doing so well. But this Breitbart articles has me wondering: "DOD Admits It Is Returning Weapons to Israel that Had Been Dispatched to Ukraine."
As you probably are aware, the United States likes to pre-position arms and equipment in the event of a conflict, including in Israel. But, according to the article, the U.S. took tens of thousands of 155mm shells from its stockpiles in Israel and moved them to Europe to support Ukraine's war effort. Now it is having to return those shells to Israel for Israel's use against Gaza. So, if we don't have the munitions to supply both a conflict in Ukraine and one in Israel (which is itself not even a real war against peer or near-peer opponents), how were we ever supposed to be able to fight in two theaters against near-peer opponents?
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