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President Joe Biden speaks to the media before boarding Air Force One at Des Moines International Airport, in Des Moines Iowa, Tuesday, April 12, 2022, en route to Washington
PENTAGON officials hosted the eight biggest arms firms in the United States today at a summit aimed at increasing the supply of weapons to Ukraine.
Officials said the meeting would look at preparing for “protracted war” with Russia and “proposals to accelerate production of existing systems and develop new, modernised capabilities,” a reference to US fears that China in particular has edged ahead in the field of “hypersonic” weaponry.
Pentagon experts admitted last November that they were “baffled” by a Chinese weapons test in which a hypersonic glide vehicle fired a missile at five times the speed of sound.
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
