Put this in the ‘how far can we stretch a narrative’ file.
According to multiple sources, Ukraine is running out of ammunition in the war against Russia. However, according to Newsweek who is pushing the message from the Nordic Ammunition Supply Company, TikTok cat videos are to blame. Yes, you read that correctly…
(Newsweek) – One of Europe’s largest ammunition manufacturers has said it’s unable to expand to meet new quotas and respond to Ukraine’s increased demand because a nearby data center is using up all the electricity in the central Norway region to store TikTok videos.
The Norwegian group Nordic Ammunition Company, better known as Nammo, told the U.K. newspaper Financial Times that there’s no surplus of energy for its Raufoss plant, where the new factory was planned.
The electricity of the region is being used up by a data center whose bigger client is TikTok. The embattled social-media platform has come under increased scrutiny in the U.S. for its ties with China. “We are concerned because we see our future growth is challenged by the storage of cat videos,” Nammo chief executive Morten Brandtzæg told the newspaper.
Local energy provider Elvia confirmed to the Financial Times that the network has no electricity to spare, and that the energy is allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Should Nammo require more energy, it will take time to make this available to the ammunition manufacturer. (read more)
Europeans must immediately stop watching cat videos, in order to protect Ukraine.
ZeroHedge has more information about the ammunition shortage:
[…] The very fact that Ukraine is out of ammunition proves that the West’s defeat in its self-declared “race of logistics” with Russia might already be a fait accompli by this point since it’s clear that Kiev can’t keep pace with its opponent despite being backed by all of NATO’s military-industrial capacity. Zelensky almost certainly didn’t realize that his candid admission essentially amounted to this, but it’s presently unclear whether the MSM will inform their audience about this or not.
On the one hand, doing so could contribute to his forthcoming begging campaign, but it could also backfire if taxpayers start asking whether it’s worth ponying up even more money if Ukraine already ran out of ammo despite the over $100 billion in aid that it’s received thus far. After all, if that astronomical sum wasn’t enough to keep their guns firing, then there’s no telling how much will be needed for Kiev to reconquer more of its lost territory like it intends to do. (more)
The only war the west could hope to break even in is nuclear. The west is a paper tiger led by fools and stooges.
It looks like things are going south fast in Ukraine, estimates are at least 250,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers with 3 times that number wounded, many of whom will never return to the battlefield.
The great hero of the elites, Zelensky, has destroyed his country. The big question that remains is what do they do now? Launch nukes? Blame Trump? They can’t declare war because they don’t have armies or ammunition.
There are no winners regarding a nuclear war. One side my inflict more damage and one side my be the recipient of more damage, but it’s the aftermath that can be catastrophic to both sides and those not even involved.
Agree there are no winners in a nuke war. But the betting odds would favor Russia vs the Obiden admistration.
I believe Russia has an advantage in nuclear war. It’s unbelievable that they keep pushing us toward war with the world’s top nuclear power.
Not sure there are any winners in ANY war, perhaps just those that “lose, less”?
“Bankers”
They win on both the financing of the destruction, and the subsequent reconstruction.
And Bushies.
Let’s put a name to that – Peter Rothschild.
Not sure there are any winners in ANY war….
Au contraire. The bankers always win.
You can’t eat money.
Apparently bankers think otherwise. Fools that they are.
“You can’t eat money.”
But it sure does pay for the bribes needed to steal your lunch…
When NYC gets nuked, that will put a crimp in their plans.
Their land mass itself is to their advantage. The US has condensed targets that, if destroyed, end our nation as we know it… we have no hope of surviving it. But Biden’s employers find that to be a feature so they’re fine with it.
The mentality of the Prog is suicidal and a hater of humanity in general. When democracy throws the doors of governance open to them you can expect nothing but destruction.
There advantage might be nullified by the ability of those systems to work. Seems Russia has a QC problem of epic proportions in its military systems. Numbers are not everything regardless. Why not regale us with Putin’s latest table top toy….LOL.
Doyle; go to youtube and watch some videos from the last few weeks, Judge Napalitano-Judging Freedom. His interviews with Scott Ritter and Colonel Douglas MacGregor are illuminating and very informative. I believe they are giving us the correct information on the Ukraine conflict but they could be wrong. However when the source of information is the corrupt media with its deep state ties and propaganda I rarely believe it.
Putin is kicking buts and asking questions later. Ukraine has not expelled the Russian army one inch and they’re about to lose three major defensive strongholds on the Donbass line.
Putin has said:
”There will be no world without Russia”.
Think on that one long and hard.
M.A.D.
As long as Putin provides F. Joe with endless scoops of ice cream, he’ll be able to lob nukes at his heart’s content without fear of retaliation.
That is true and why I said break even. Colonel MacGregor said months ago the most dangerous time in the Ukraine war is when defeat is obvious.
Precisely why nuclear weapons always have been —under rational leadership— a last resort, DEFENSIVE weapon: when you have nothing left to lose and can only ensure your opponent’s victory = inheriting a corose.
Russia is certainly not losing and has no reason or motivation to use nuclear weapons.
The West on the other hand–led by a dementia patient and controlled by delusional globalist–is no longer a rational actor and nuclear weapons are about all we have left as ootions to turn the tide.
I don’t fear Putin or Moscow. I DO fear the dementia resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, the bureaucrats at Foggy Bottom, and the military brass on the other side of the Anacostia River.
Remember back in the day people were worried Trump would start a nuke war?
That was all leftist projection as usual.
I have no fear of the dementia resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. He has no influence now, and I doubt he ever had any since he took up residence there. The ones that I fear are his handlers. Those behind the scenes that pull his, and his companion Dr.s strings. Holding all that power anonymously, and with zero accountability, is more dangerous than any nuclear warhead.
They can declare Virtual War in theSocial Media make believe world!!!
It’s ALL about gaslighting and perception to these idiot elites.
everyone loses bigly. the
re is no breaking even in nuclear
You truly are a clueless hump. The West would crush Russia’s conventional military in a few weeks. If your Ukrainian casualty numbers were anywhere near correct there would be no functional Ukrainian army. Let’s be succinct, you’re a useless liar.
Would like some proof the US could defeat Russia.
We don’t have hypersonic missiles.
The F-35 is a hangar plane.
Our air defense systems can’t take out hypersonic missiles.
Russia’s submarine nuke missiles can create a radioactive tsunami.
Aircraft carriers can be taken out with 1 or 2 pinpoint accurate missile strikes.
What did all the Pentagon war games show?
Correct.
And name calling and character assassination is the lowest form of destructive criticism.
You are delusional at best. It will be all over in Ukraine by the end of summer. They are running out of weapons. Russia on the other hand is not.
I guess you know more than Colonel Douglas MacGregor, or Scott Ritter? That
s where the 257,000 came from about a month ago. Its higher now. Russia would kick our asses now.You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
Miss Lindsey is that you?
Just like we crushed inferior forces in Afghanistan and Vietnam?
See above
They took down my response meaning the conservative tree house is into censorship…good for them, good to know who can be trusted with inconvenient truths.
Are you insinuating that anything you have said is true ?
Clueless hump ?
Useless liar ?
The Russians are demilitarizing all of NATO. Our country has destroyed so many countries whom we called allies. The US and NATO are doing far more to destroy Ukraine than the Russians, who simply needed to keep NATO from encroaching to their borders.
I kinda think the US destroyed Ukraine and Zelinsky was the stooge that was placed there, kinda like Biden here …
Why not?
“The dog ate my homework”
All the swamp rats have their pay off now they let it burn, best way to hide the evidence of swamp rat crimes.
It all started as a bet, between two space aliens, on “just how gullible ARE these humans, any way?”
Here we are in the Twilight Zone.
Golden Earring 1982!
Works for me…ha. : )
I’m in my mid-sixties and we used to call it dumb-shit. Now the news actors & scribes in the enemy MSM will read it or write it without a moments reflection, you know, this is some really dumb-shit.
The scary part are the nit-wits out there who hear or read it and will say, “yeah, that makes sense”.
Thankfully, I believe that number is winnowing down to what is essentially the village idiot(s) of our society.
God Help Us!
God ALWAYS sits on the sidelines.
God is not sitting on anything but his throne. We made these choices and get to suffer the consequences. You’ll get your chance to present yourself one on one soon enough.
Norway has one the highest GDP per capita in the world, mainly from oil. Tik tok has used all of its electricity.
That one cracked me up!
If Biden had not sanctioned Russia, forcing Facebook, Instagram & Twitter to leave, they would have used up all of Russia’s electricity and prevented Putin from making so much ammunition. (sigh)
At first I thought this was from the Babylon Bee.
Why do I get that feeling in my wallet that somehow someway Im going pay for building a new powerplant in Norway?
Yeah a solar power plant.
They can name it “North Pole Solar.”
Point !
Aren’t they one of those countries proud of their renewable energy supplies, especially the whale and bird killers (wind turbines) that we want to put off of our shores? No power for guns, just “butter.”
For those of you like myself who need some vindication I offer you a couple of MSM. Last year I watched the insane media show support for the fanatics in Ukraine. This was immediately after demonizing everyone that looked like them over here for the last decade.
I was told that I was crazy because the dollar was just too powerful. I would shrug it off knowing the zeitgeist doesn’t lie if you can read it. Videos from Fox News Monica Crowley and CNN Fareed. Both clips are over the mark. I doubt you will see much more about this because it’s a confidence killer for certain.
Was able to listen to Crowley’s comments but cut Fareed short when he started praising the potato.
So I guess being the world’s leading oil producer under Trump was such a bad thing that it had to be stopped so Biden could continue the destruction of the American economy (started under Obama) and accelerate the devaluation of the dollar to make way for digital currency.
I imagine Soros is busy shorting his position on the dollar as we speak as are all the Congress critters.
I don’t believe it will be so grand for the usual suspects. This time they’re going to lose. The Global South is none to happy with the likes of most of them. Yes, they wanted to tank America’s economy but ONLY if they had their grip around the world. They do NOT and now they’re panicking. That insane push you see/hear to support Ukraine; that’s not cheerleading that is abject fear.
This is how I came to suspect what was really bothering them. It’s going to be rough for everyone I am guessing but the Ivy League Silver Spoon type will suffer the most. Just gotta hope they don’t get so sideways they resort to nukes. Think spoiled children not getting their way to understand the mindset. Ones that haven’t had a paddling in a very long time. Now daddy (God, Natural Law, M Nature, etc) is coming home to kick some ass and it ain’t going to be pretty.
I am sure that there a BUNCH of people who are tired of all the globalist BS that know where these fools live and when their families really start suffering from the misery that they have wrought upon us, they will start going door by door to put these elites out of their misery. Money don’t mean shit when it cant buy anything.
Exactly and thank you……money/gold/land does you no good if you cannot defend it. The only hope they have is if they negotiated a deal to live inside a country such as China. If the dollar takes a bath there won’t be a Western Country you will feel safe in outside of close knit communities.
For Ex:…Sure someone like Soros could strike a deal with the Chinese. He gives them $2B in gold and metals, maybe even some of his land here. He gets on his plane goes to his lush new home. He got the happy ending in that scenario but just as easily he could be killed/tortured as soon as the plane touches down. There is NOTHING to bind them to that agreement. I don’t believe people like Soros are very well received by places like China and/or Russia. That would be a very stressful agreement indeed.
This sounds like all the things mentioned by the MSM that Putin has supposedly weaponized, in media stories. I’m putting a small number of items from the many.
A 14-legged killer squid which lives beneath Antarctica.
Jedi mind tricks.
Migration.
Tax treaties.
Q-anon.
The economy.
American racism.
Social media.
Robot cockroaches.
Winter.
Humanitarian space.
Sapper shovels.
Laser.
Health communications.
Post-modernism.
Cheburashka.
European refrigerators and washing machines.
Catalonian referendums.
Necromancy.
Potholes in the UK.
Sport.
Opinion polls.
For the entire thread if anyone wants to read more:
Well, if I remember correctly, the US Navy did try to weaponize dolphins.
So did the Soviets.
I am quite sure that in the dolphin arms race, the dolphins were the losers on both sides.
One of the dolphins was a snitch. They called him Flipper.
That’s why they said ‘So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.’ (Douglas Adams).
I read on another blog that highly trained Dolphins were used to blow up Nord stream. Sounds just as believable as the Gilligan Island Ukraine pleasure cruise story.
A great fictional read from the 70’s (yes I do remember a few things) was “Day of the Dolphin” by Robert Merle (French).
Made into a movie staring George C. Scott.
Funny.
Golly….
what might
Andrew Dice Clay
have to say
about tic toc 🫢
Really liked ADC, although so many didn’t really “get it”.
Filthy-funny !
Don rickles on steroids
Jack and Jill went up the hill,
They each had a buck and a quarter…
I love how we broadcast important military information to Russia and China…
It saves time on having a State Derp flunky traveling there to tell them in person.
Or Milley just calling it in.
They really can’t help it. The leaders and even the elites have the emotional maturity and mindset of young high school children. Maybe its from the Ivy League lifestyle I don’t really know. Everything is emotion and narrative to them. I suspect some of them believe that they can actually fabricate their own reality. Why wouldn’t they? Its how they handle everything domestically. Just lie and the press will get your back. Makes a person much less ambitious.
It’s very interesting to watch thing unfold in real time. Aside from the US and their many vassal states the world is calling US/West on their bullshit. We have been privy to a lot of that over the past couple of weeks. This is why Harris went to Africa to try and stop them from sliding away.
I don’t think its going to work anymore though. Most of the world is no longer listening to us. As more turn their backs to us the more will follow.
Exactly the mindset of high schoolers. The reason that I never found Twitter appealing is the high schooly glee and gotcha of the posters.
Ya just can’t fix stupid. That is what this is in every way.
We need to bring back pointing and laughing.
Green nude eel strikes again, this time in the form of energy sucking cat videos. If only there were some cheap form of energy that could power the war machine. The irony is so thick we could build a wall with it on our southern border.
The world needs more cat vids. Less 155 mm artillery.
Meow!
The shells do not do Ukraine any good if they do not have the tubes to shoot them out of. Ukraine is also running out of Howitzers. NATO did not have a lot of artillery to start with. Russia has destroyed most of what was sent. NATO is scrounging the bottom of the barrel and sending old WW2 era cannons. .
Russia has won this war. Just on the ability to manufacture vast quantities of modern arms and ammo alone.
Russia has proven just how weak the west truly is. If you have to blame a social media and cats. For you lack of production capacity you are a looser. Norway is only one of the thirty NATO countries. They are all in the same condition as far as military arms production.
This year Russia has produced 1500 tanks. NATO can hardly come up with enough running tanks to form a small armored division.
Bah! I think I will go find some cat vids.
Let’s just load up on cat vids and get this thing over with so we can move on to the next crisis.
Ukraine deserves to lose.
“Put this in the ‘how far can we stretch a narrative’ file.”
More like, “how far we CAN stretch a narrative.”
They don’t even have a square to spare? That’s those Norwegian energy companies for ya’!
The TikTok story is believable because one thing our European allies will never do is produce more electricity.
Cat videos causing Ukraine to be out of bullets despite $100B from us taxpayers?
No words…just, no words
Just DO what should have been LONG ago for the CCP virus deaths and injuries and fentanyl deaths – BAN IT along with any other CCP associated app.
Why hasn’t that happened as in India which did it because of 20 soldiers killed by the PLA.
Because “your” government is OWNED, just NOT by you.
Good thing Biden is in for as long as it takes . Since he is over 80 and dealing with dementia his long as it takes is a long walk off a short pier
He took a walk off of any coherent pier long ago.
After reading this post by Sundance, watch this video of him today to see how far gone he is. He came out to talk about the shooting in Nashville, but instead gave a shout-out to ice cream, Ben Cardin and some kids he focused in on in the room.
And this guy is supposedly making decisions for our country.
I do not believe any of this?
Its all a load of horsechit. Everything about Ukieland is a lie.
Remember all those twittybird youboob fakebook videos a few years back about military hardware on trains going somewhere, where do you think it all went. That all left the country. And now we see photos of tons and tons of military gear lined up all over the place in foriegn countries. Do you really think the MIC in America has quit working, going like gang busters!
One of the best sources of information is The New Atlas-YouTube.
He actually uses sources..like government websites, military reports,newspaper articles
US has limited manufacturing capability to produce weapons/munitions.
Same with NATO and EU.
We have been sending Ukraine our mothballed boneyard equipment.
NATO and EU are already tapped out. Their stockpiles dangerously low-or gone.
Same with us….our stockpile is low…..very low.
This is just the beginning of a never ending stream of lie’s which will give the globalist controlled puppet idiots reason for backing out of the Ukrainian war they initiated under the Obama regime and accept the peace plan that the CCP and Putin will put on the table. They will gracefully accept defeat in that arena but continue to destroy their own countries. Imagine if you will China and Russia putting sanctions on their countries. They are totally dependent on them and have no room to bargain.
I believe that this ‘story’ pushes the throttles forward to “Ludicrous speed!” for all things Ukraine.
Paging Bono … “Where the wheats have no name …”
Bono is playing catch-up to Orlando Bloom.
For whatever reason, the left thinks Hollyweird types make good Goodwill Ambassadors, so he was meeting with Z today.
Which can, ultimately, be blamed on Climate Change.
🙄
Where are the peacemakers? Where are all the hipsters singing “all we are saying is give peace a chance?”
It seems like there is not the slightest interest in restoring peace on the part of the Bidenistas or the Z-man.
“It seems like there is not the slightest interest in restoring peace”
Less than zip.
It’s not US young people dying. And the MSM hides the true horror of the conflict or the deaths of 250,000 Ukrainians and wounding of another 450,000 plus whatever the Russian numbers are. It’s hard to be sad or angry when it is someone across the world that you don’t know.
O may god! these people are DUM. “You cannot fix stupid.”
Gee, if only the Norwegians had an alternate source of industrial energy…. like natural gas…. to run their factories.
Guess those solar panels and wind turbines just don’t do much good in an old fashioned war!
The sooner Ukraine ends this farce, the better. I have no sympathy for their little dictator. But I have a new found respect for Putin, who has shown incredible restraint considering all that’s been thrown at his country. Kiev should be grateful he hasn’t nuked them. Yet.
i agree.maybe we should also remember to pray for the monks and priests that are being evicted from a 1000 year christian orthodox shrine/monestary in kiev,today i believe, thanks to the little perverted actor.so sad
The Norwegians have lots of natural gas that they are exporting. Their pipeline went online at the same time that the Nordstream pipelines were blown.
if shortage of electricity is the problem (it’s not) then the real culprit would be climate nazi idiocy
“Europeans must immediately stop watching cat videos, in order to protect Ukraine.”
That could pass as a Babylon Bee headline.
Matt
How Zelensky was Prevented From Making Peace in the Donbas
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/03/24/how-zelensky-was-prevented-from-making-peace-in-the-donbas/
interesting. Thanks
Good! The sooner the US and EU can no longer wage their proxy war against Russia, the fewer people who have to die in that war.
and the added benefit of not getting us incinerated
the world will be a better place when that WEF puppet
gets disposed of.
NAMMO is half owned by the Norwegian government, we shall see who gets the power in the end.
These people simply refuse to admit that “actual war with a first-class industrial opponent such as Russia or China” is a knock-down drag-out conventional slugging match which requires three things that USA/EU/NATO simply does not have. But which their opponents have in abundance.
(1) Personnel, both soldiers and support. (2) Limitless domestic industrial production capacity (the “arsenal of democracy” that is now a rust belt). (3) The logistical capacity needed to get it all there.
Billion-dollar “wunderwaffen,” and even nuclear weapons or the threat thereof, WON’T change these dynamics. Or enable them to win. It can’t be done.
Face it: you’re not Rocky Balboa anymore. It’s questionable that you’re even Terry Malloy … anymore.
And this, by the way, is inexcusable. Trillions of dollars spent on what “Ike” tried to warn us about, and zero to show for it.
Did it never occur to anyone that “Make America Great Again” is, among many other things, a legitimate national security concern?
When put to even the slightest test of “physical realities,” the American People now see that “Ike Was Right.” Our money has been squandered, and our actual military and defense capabilities have been vastly overstated.
LMAO!!!!! 😂
Surplus energy? Is that like surplus money?
“According to multiple sources, Ukraine is running out of ammunition in the war against Russia.”
———
Forget hundreds of billions of dollars of more grift … isn’t it time to give Ukraine nukes?
/sarc
“According to multiple sources, Ukraine is running out of ammunition in the war against Russia.”
Just as I thought when reading some of the leftist news stories claiming Russia was the one running out of ammo.
And as I said, why they may be thinking about shipping DU rounds to them. They are digging through the couch cushions in several nations trying to find more.
And it ain’t in Russia.
Does anybody else here not think that Russia ALSO has a few million depleted uranium rounds? Think they don’t know the physical characteristics of it as well as we do?
They do. Putin gave interview over the weekend. He stated that Russia did.
Every time I think that they have finally achieved the absolute pinnacle of absurdity, something like this comes along. Tic Toc cat videos are interfering with ammunition production.
I agree with Mike In A Truck. We will soon be funding a power plant for NAMMO.
I’d suggest everyone reading about the Russians and Finn’s fighting in WWII, regardless of the background and history of Russia and the Ukraine (i.e. why the war even began). The Finn’s fought courageously in their war against the Russians and against overpowering man and firepower. However once it became clear that the Finn’s could not succeed in their defense, they negotiated a peace. They ceded some of their territory to the Soviets and kept their country and peoples safe. In fact, prior to the war the Finn’s sent their children away, out of the country to safety in case the worst happened. Again, for right or wrong on either side. Ukraine had to know they could not win a war against Russia. Go ahead and fight if you will to gain a better negotiated peace. But realize a peace agreement is the humane thing for Ukraine and their citizens. Perhaps in the end, this will be sad, but a good thing. It’ll demonstrate NATO as the paper dragon it has always been and just an arm of the military industrial complex.
Before this escalated, Ukraine should have given guarantees/assurances to Russia, that they would stay neutral and not join the EU or NATO.
but they did,turned out they lied! fool me once shame on me,fool me twice shame on you?
Ukraine needs to give it up and do a settlement with Russia before they get every one of their men killed. They will never beat Russia on it’s doorstep. Zelensky is a friggin fool to think otherwise and of course we already know that our “commander in chief” is a fool.
I’m pretty sure Ukraine only used about 2% of the total ammunition given to them by Joeys team. The other 98% was either sold or stockpiled for personal use by the Ukrainian autocratic government.
What are they saying – that they can’t produce enough electricity with unicorn farts and rainbows?
March those bigots straight to the gallows; they have no place in the New World Order.
If https://www.zerohedge.com/ isn’t bookmarked you’re missing out on the best info/doom & gloom on the interwebs.
Is this a Babylon Bee article?
Send in the CIA. They pulled off the sabotage of the Nord stream Pipeline, they should be able, at the bare minimum, to cut the power to the TIKTOK plant!
Finally, a use for cat videos.
If there is indeed a “shortage,” there is only one thing you can blame it on – and it’s the only reason for any and all shortages of any kind: Central Planning.