NATO weapons on black market: History has a habit of not ending as predicted - UK Column News

https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-5th-december-2022

- Nigerian President Buhari: Ukrainian and Libyan war are generating flood of arms in the Chad Basin (Sahel)
- Financial Times—Military briefing: Ukraine war exposes ‘hard reality’ of West’s weapons capacity—UK Armed Forces Minister James Heappey hints that the black market (“an unnamed third party”) will help Britain restock its NLAW infantry missiles
- Brian Gerrish analysis: These NLAWs are very likely to end up right back in Kiev
- Brian Gerrish expertise: This was the case in the Cold War too—Royal Navy vessels kept being sent on patrol with worryingly scant weapons on board
- David Scott commentary: This flows from the naïve End of History delusion of the 1990s—if there were to be no more enemies, there was not thought to be any need to keep weapons in dispersed readiness