Comments by "Antony Wooster" (@antonywooster6783) on "Russia Closes on Kupiansk Liman; UK MSM Admits NATO Can't Match Russia Ammo; US Depletes Oil Reserve" video.

  1. 20:17 "there hasn't been the incentive to keep those factories" Yes, there hasn't, because the heads of government and NATO, knew, despite all their scary rhetoric, that the Russians were not planning on invading the West. Not even a weeny little bit! If they had thought that the Russians were really planning what they said they were planning, they would have been guilty of a gross dereliction of duty! The late Victorian governments faced much the same problem with respect to the production of small arms. When they had a small colonial war, they had to go to the manufacturers of rifles (sporting gun manufactures) and get them to produce a large number of rifles in a short space of time, with all the problems you could expect from that MO. In particular, having all these guns from different manufacturers, meant that it was not possible to cannibalize damaged rifles, i.e. use parts from one damaged piece to repair another damaged one. Around 1880, they decided that they had to solve this problem, once and for all and they decided that the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich should make the army's rifles. They sent a commission to Massachusetts to buy the most up-to-date and accurate machinery available. This arrangement solved the problem and was only ended in the 1950s, when the same machines were still making the bolt action Lee-Enfield rifles used by the British army at that time.
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