The words of General Dietl may have been true, but that did not stop the deployment of hundreds of thousands of military personnel in the forests and tundra of Lapland. and our national interest," he said.“There has never been a war fought in the high north… The region is completely unsuited for military operations” – General Eduard Dietl military has and we spends over $800 billion a year to be ready to defend the U.S. "Ukraine has had to mobilize more troops (over 700K, likely 1 million) than the entire U.S. Mr Spencer said there had been complaints about the amount promised to Ukraine, such as the $40bn pledged by the US - when in comparison, America was spending $1bn a day to field less than 260,000 soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also claimed no Western military would attempt such a move without 1,000 times more equipment than Ukraine has. No other military has had to breach "such extensive mined defensive lines" since the Second World War, he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. "Bottom line, the West didn't deliver what they promised and more importantly didn't deliver even a fraction of what is needed in Ukraine," said John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute. An expert has said he is "tired" of hearing opinions on why Ukraine's counteroffensive is going slowly.
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