but also over putins, not only over putins in russia, but all around the world. wouldn t this be a proof of that power of the idea of freedom? it will definitely be. let s hear more on this from justin crump he s the chief executive of the intelligence company sibylline and a former british army tank commander. and it s not a new message for us to hearfrom ukraine. of course, zelensky has always been making this call. we need more, better weapons. we need them now. and it s always been a slow process because you have international diplomatic factors. you have domestic political factors, particularly in germany, and then you have the military factors. of course, militaries don t want to give up their current weapons because they feel they might need them in this time of crisis. and then on top of that, we have the actual supply base, which certainly in europe, to a lesser extent, the united states, that, of course, since the end of the cold war has wound down from large scale muniti
of these challenges. and actually what s amazing really is quite how much the community has pulled together to deliver what it has done. so although ukraine wants more, they have received a lot and will receive a lot more. can we just go back to that point you made the supply base. i mean, this production has had to ramp up. can you can you put it into context for us? what were they making before? how many more times that are they making now? you know, it s such a big change. so in the time of the cold war, of course, we were preparing for a lamb war in europe. huge consumption of ammunition as we ve seen in ukraine. you think the fighting in ukraine is a fraction of the front line we might have seen in germany in the 1980s. so the stockpiles you can still see the remains of in germany and ammo compounds and things were huge. but of course, after 1990, we weren t really firing artillery ammunition in those sorts of volumes at all. and so the focus became a different sort of warfare, sm
he s the chief executive of the intelligence company sibylline and a former british army tank commander. it s not a new message for us to hear from it s not a new message for us to hearfrom ukraine. zelensky has been saying that we need better weapons and need this now. it has always been a slow process because we have international diplomatic factors, particularly in germany and then you have the military factors, militaries don t want to give up their current weapons because they feel that they might need them in this time of crisis. on top of that we have the supply chain. since the end of the cold war has wound down from large scale emissions production and large scale weapon production. it is overcoming all of these challenges and what is amazing really is how much the community has pulled together to deliver what it has done. although ukraine once more, they have received a lot and will receive a lot more. can more, they have received a lot and will receive a lot more. will re
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