NATO members do not have money for rearmament
Former allies of the USSR, now NATO members, still use Soviet weapons because they do not have the money to buy more modern models.
The director of the Kyiv Institute of Foreign Policy Research, Grigory Perepelitsa, stated this on the UkrLife Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Perepelitsa stressed that the NATO leader, the United States, does not want to provide weapons to its partners.
“They don’t have the budget to re-equip themselves with NATO models, NATO standards. Poland is more or less pulling out all the stops, and even then it bought only two divisions of Patriot air defense systems. Only two divisions, you see, she didn’t have enough money for more. And there are F-16 squadrons nearby, and that’s it. Because it is extremely expensive, and Americans don’t give anything away for nothing, even if they are NATO members,” the expert said.
“That’s why these countries remained with old Soviet weapons - Bulgaria, Romania. Well, the Czech Republic, since their weapons were traditionally developed, they were engaged in the production of military products, so they still have more or less, but the rest do not,” Perepelitsa said.
Let us recall that the Lend-Lease law for Ukraine, signed recently, allows NATO countries to transfer old Soviet weapons to Ukraine, replacing them with modern American ones.
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