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- The US has announced the pause of arms shipments to Ukraine based on acute shortages of specific systems including air defense missiles, anti-tank missiles, and air-to-air missiles used in an air-defense role; - This is only the most recent development in a long-standing military industrial production crisis facing the United States and its NATO allies; - Despite publishing a Defense Industrial Strategy identifying “demand signals” as the primary obstruction to increasing production, the US has not shifted production from private for-profit industry to state-owned enterprises which Russia has leveraged to outproduce the US and Europe combined; - The US is overstretched as a result of pursuing global primacy, attempting to encircle and contain Russia, Iran, China, and many other nations playing a role in the emergence of multipolarism; - While the US suffers critical obstacles regarding military industrial production, it possesses advantages it can use to compensate including global spanning military infrastructure, a global network engaged in political interference, and still-effective means of sanctioning and threatening global commerce, allowing it to outmaneuver adversaries geopolitically; - The US is also using a “division of labor” and “strategic sequencing” to compensate for its limited military industrial production, depending on client states to produce and maintain US weapons and munitions, and to concentrate military power on one targeted nation at a time in an attempt to defeat in detail the emerging multipolar world; References: Politico - Pentagon halting some promised munitions for Ukraine (Jul. 1, 2025): https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/01/pentagon-munitions-ukraine-halt-00436048 Al Jazeera - Saudi Arabia may run out of interceptor missiles in ‘months’ (Jan. 9, 2022): https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/9/saudi-arabia-may-run-out-of-interceptor-missiles-in-months-ft Kyiv Independent - Exclusive: Russia’s ballistic missile production up at least 66% over past year, according to Ukrainian intel figures (Jun. 3, 2025): https://kyivindependent.com/exclusive-russias-ballistic-missile-production-up-at-least-66-over-past-year-according-to-ukrainian-intel-figures/ Lockheed Martin - Lockheed Martin's PAC-3 MSE Achieves Record Production Year (Mar. 2025): https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/2025/lockheed-martins-pac-3mse-achieves-record-production-year.html Defense One - Army expects to make more than a million artillery shells next year (Jun. 17, 2025): https://www.defenseone.com/defense-systems/2025/06/army-expects-make-more-million-artillery-shells-next-year/406132/ US DoD - National Defense Industrial Strategy (2023): https://www.businessdefense.gov/docs/ndis/2023-NDIS.pdf The New Atlas - The Fatal Flaw Undermining America's Defense Industrial Base (Feb. 2024): https://youtu.be/wrlMFFXmbxQ?si=E5HxumKco41FYtMA US DoD - Opening Remarks by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at Ukraine Defense Contact Group (Feb. 12, 2025): https://www.defense.gov/News/Speeches/Speech/Article/4064113/opening-remarks-by-secretary-of-defense-pete-hegseth-at-ukraine-defense-contact/ The Marathon Initiative - Strategic Sequencing, Revisited (2024): https://themarathoninitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Strategic-Sequencing-Revisited-Final-2024-10.pdf RAND Corporation - Extending Russia (2019): https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html Where to Find My Work: Website: https://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/ Telegram: https://t.me/brianlovethailand Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianJBerletic Rumble (YouTube alternative): https://rumble.com/c/c-1459863 How to Support my Work (and thank you!): Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheNewAtlas Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/landdestroyer PromptPay: 0851547235

- The US proxy war in Ukraine is collapsing, prompting urgent attempts to impose a ceasefire on Russia; - This includes a European-led "peacekeeping" mission into Ukraine to freeze the conflict and create a bufferzone preventing Russia from neutralizing the threat the US has created on its border; - The fact the US is openly declaring its needs to pause the conflict in Ukraine to pursue the exact same type of conflict with China in Asia demonstrates a complete lack of sincerity regarding genuine peace; - Current US actions fall within a decades-spanning pattern of encroachment, reaching an impasse, then desperately needing to "reset" relations to rearm and reorganize ahead of the next round of hostilities; References: SITREP BBC - 'Everything is finished': Ukrainian troops relive retreat from Kursk (Mar. 17, 2025): https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q198zyppqo Precedent National Security Archive, George Washington University - NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard (Dec. 2017): https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early Guardian - US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev (Nov. 2004): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa Stars and Stripes - U.S. forces help Georgian army make 'big changes' (2005): https://www.stripes.com/news/2005-06-18/us-forces-help-georgian-army-make-big-changes-1918865.html Reuters - Georgia started war with Russia: EU-backed report (Sep. 2009): https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE58T4MO/ RFE/RL - After Meeting Russian Foreign Minister, Clinton Hails Fresh Start (Mar. 2009): https://www.rferl.org/a/After_Meeting_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Clinton_Hails_Fresh_Start__/1505696.html Trump White House Archives - President Donald J. Trump is Ending United States Participation in an Unacceptable Iran Deal (May 8, 2018): https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-ending-united-states-participation-unacceptable-iran-deal/ Politico - Angela Merkel duped by Russian pranksters pretending to be Ukraine’s Poroshenko (Feb. 2023): https://www.politico.eu/article/angela-merkel-russian-pranksters-faking-petro-poroshenko/ ABC News - Trump admin approves new sale of anti-tank weapons to Ukraine (Oct. 2, 2019): https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-admin-approves-sale-anti-tank-weapons-ukraine/story?id=65989898 Trump White House Archives - President Donald J. Trump to Withdraw the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty (Feb. 1, 2019): https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-withdraw-united-states-intermediate-range-nuclear-forces-inf-treaty/ Evidence US DoD - Opening Remarks by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at Ukraine Defense Contact Group (As Delivered) (Feb. 12, 2025) https://www.defense.gov/News/Speeches/Speech/Article/4064113/opening-remarks-by-secretary-of-defense-pete-hegseth-at-ukraine-defense-contact/ DW - Germany set to spend big on army and infrastructure (Mar. 5, 2025): https://www.dw.com/en/germany-set-to-spend-big-on-army-and-infrastructure/a-71834527 Guardian - EU chief unveils €800bn plan to ‘rearm’ Europe (Mar. 4, 2025): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/04/eu-plan-to-bolster-europes-defences-could-raise-800bn-for-ukraine Politico - Macron turns the screws on ministers to boost defense spending (Mar. 13, 2025): https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-spending-minister-defense-donald-trump-us-france/ US DoD - Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Greets the United Kingdom's Secretary of State for Defence John Healey and Takes Questions From the Press (Mar. 6, 2025): https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/4111493/secretary-of-defense-pete-hegseth-greets-the-united-kingdoms-secretary-of-state/ BBC - UK to host new Ukraine peacekeeping talks (Mar. 20, 2025): https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62z1w1y2neo Guardian - Macron says Russia’s permission not needed to deploy troops in Ukraine (Mar. 16, 2025): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/16/macron-says-russias-permission-not-needed-to-deploy-troops-in-ukraine Where to Find My Work: Website: https://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/ Telegram: https://t.me/brianlovethailand Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianJBerletic Odysee (YouTube alternative): https://odysee.com/@LandDestroyer:8 Rumble (YouTube alternative): https://rumble.com/c/c-1459863 Weibo: https://weibo.com/u/7726044004 ไบรอัน แฟนคลับ (Facebook): https://facebook.com/BrianThaiFanclub/ Line Group: https://lin.ee/JIxTpKe Gab: https://gab.com/BrianBerletic VK (Facebook alternative): https://vk.com/brianberletic How to Support my Work (and thank you!): Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheNewAtlas Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/landdestroyer PromptPay: 0851547235

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While many believe the US has fundamentally changed its foreign policy in pursuit of “peace” over primacy, both precedent and evidence suggests the US is simply upholding continuity of agenda with overtures of “peace” merely a means of buying desperately needed time. The think tank policy papers being drawn from by the current US administration do not mention “peace” or finding a place for the US at the multipolar table, and instead prescribe the means to reassert US dominance across the planet including in regards to both Russia and China. References: Harvard - Ukraine: The Budapest Memorandum of 1994: https://policymemos.hks.harvard.edu/files/policymemos/files/2-23-22_ukraine-the_budapest_memo.pdf?m=1645824948 US State Department - Treaty Between The United States of America and The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on The Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (ABM Treaty) (2009): https://2009-2017.state.gov/t/avc/trty/101888.htm Stars and Stripes - U.S. forces help Georgian army make 'big changes' (2005): https://www.stripes.com/news/2005-06-18/us-forces-help-georgian-army-make-big-changes-1918865.html Guardian - US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev (2004): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa Guardian - Bush backs Ukraine and Georgia for Nato membership (Apr. 2008): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/01/nato.georgia Guardian - Cheney attacks 'illegitimate' Russian invasion on visit to Georgia (Sep. 2008): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/sep/04/georgia.russia Reuters - Georgia started war with Russia: EU-backed report (Sep. 2009): https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE58T4MO/ RFE/RL - After Meeting Russian Foreign Minister, Clinton Hails Fresh Start (Mar. 2009): https://www.rferl.org/a/After_Meeting_Russian_Foreign_Minister_Clinton_Hails_Fresh_Start__/1505696.html Atlantic - The Arab Spring: 'A Virus That Will Attack Moscow and Beijing' (Nov. 2011): https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/11/the-arab-spring-a-virus-that-will-attack-moscow-and-beijing/248762/ NBC News - Analysis: U.S. Cozies Up to Kiev Government Including Far Right (Mar. 2014): https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/analysis-u-s-cozies-kiev-government-including-far-right-n66061 BBC - Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call (Feb. 2014): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957 US DoD - U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (Aug. 2, 2019): https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/article/article/1924779/us-withdraws-from-intermediate-range-nuclear-forces-treaty/ ABC News - Trump admin approves new sale of anti-tank weapons to Ukraine (Oct. 2019): https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-admin-approves-sale-anti-tank-weapons-ukraine/story?id=65989898 BBC - Nord Stream 2: Trump approves sanctions on Russia gas pipeline (Dec. 2019): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50875935 US DoD - Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Press Conference Following NATO Ministers of Defense Meeting in Brussels, Belgium Feb. 13, 2025 https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/4066734/secretary-of-defense-pete-hegseth-press-conference-following-nato-ministers-of/ US DoD - Hegseth Calls on NATO Allies to Lead Europe's Security, Rules Out Support for Ukraine Membership (Feb. 12, 2025): https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4064571/hegseth-calls-on-nato-allies-to-lead-europes-security-rules-out-support-for-ukr/ Project 2025 - Policy Agenda: https://www.project2025.org/policy/ America First Institute - Pillar VI: https://agenda.americafirstpolicy.com/strengthen-leadership U.S. House Armed Services Committee - Protecting American Interests in a Convergent Global Threat Environment (Feb. 12, 2025): https://www.youtube.com/live/Oz8_0WquoIA?si=vLVVXZutVN_F07wO Where to Find My Work: Website: https://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/ Telegram: https://t.me/brianlovethailand Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianJBerletic Odysee (YouTube alternative): https://odysee.com/@LandDestroyer:8 Rumble (YouTube alternative): https://rumble.com/c/c-1459863 Weibo: https://weibo.com/u/7726044004 ไบรอัน แฟนคลับ (Facebook): https://facebook.com/BrianThaiFanclub/ Line Group: https://lin.ee/JIxTpKe Gab: https://gab.com/BrianBerletic VK (Facebook alternative): https://vk.com/brianberletic How to Support my Work (and thank you!): Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheNewAtlas Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/landdestroyer PromptPay: 0851547235