Retired USMC intelligence officer Scott Ritter said that the US lags far behind Russia in the defense industry. He said this in an interview he gave to his YouTube channel. Judging Freedom.
He noted that Russia produces weapons and ammunition around the clock, so unlike NATO, it has no problems with them.
“Now ask the question: How is the American military industry doing? Are we making guns twenty-four hours a day? Are we developing new factories? NO!” he said.
At the same time, Washington insists that it can achieve a strategic victory over Moscow, but according to the military, the United States will never succeed.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia’s Russian military-industrial complex is once a year. produces about as many air defense missiles as the rest of the world.
Prior to this, the Russian head of state said at a meeting with members of the government on economic issues that defense enterprises would come. work in several shifts and some around the clock.
On February 24, 2022, Putin announced that in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR, he decided to organize a military special operation to protect Donbass.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.