Spain's oldest armament factory, which is situated in Granada, is 700-years old, and is now doing overtime to produce munitions for Ukraine.
It is evident that Europe has been dragging its feet to step up armament production to match the needs of Ukraine, preferring to let the United States shoulder that responsibility but that is slowly changing.
It was on Monday that the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, announced a bilateral accord with Ukraine to hand over 1,130-million euros in military support, especially in air defence weapons. The Americans and the BBC consider that sum to be 1.13 billion, but let’s keep it sensible.
As a consequence, the El Fargue arsenal’s 287 worker are now working a 3-shift system to cover the demand. But don’t think that just because the factory is in Spain that it remains a Spanish company because in 2001 it was bought by General Dynamics before it was taken over by a Slovakian company, MSM Group in 2020.
The arsenal in Granada has not been informed officially yet, but it is convinced that some of that sum will be spent there. The workers union certainly hopes so, considering that the Government should have a preferencial criteria for Spanish arsenals.
Editorial comment: finally, the EU appears to have woken up to the fact that Russia is its problem and it is Europe that needs to have the arms to defend itself, instead of depending on the US.
(News/Noticias: City & Metropolitan Area, Granada, Andalucia – Photo: Granadahoy)
“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think
they are going to profit from it” Geroge Orwell. Perpetual war on the whole is
their goal, rather than peace.
The UK alone has borrowed nearly £13 billion (for Ukraine) from the banks, this figure
increasing every year with compound interest, which the taxpayer has to pay.
“The UK has pledged £12.5 billion in support to Ukraine since February 2022, of
which £7.6 billion is for military assistance” Source House of Commons Library.
Which equals: I am happy to give you my dinner money for the rest of the school year.
You can’t negotiate with a bully
Viva long lives
Warren
Steve: let’s suppose that all that you have said is correct up to your last sentence. Who invaded whom?
Would you also like to expound on the conditions in present-day Russia (civil liberties, freedom of expression, suppression of political opposition) and Putín’s reported aim to bring back Imperial Russia through conquest?
At the risk of being ostracised for taking an alternate view, may I suggest that much of the blame should rest with Zelensky and his far right – neo Nazi paymasters. They ousted a democratically elected government, installed a comedian as president, proceeded to oppress marginal citizens, and cut off port access to Russia.
Zelensky has had it written into Ukrainian law that negotiation with Russia is banned.
There are many corrupt people in Ukraine making vast fortunes out of this war, and unfortunately, the sheep that are our Western rulers keep throwing our hard earned tax Euros to prop up this farce.
Zelensky should be told that there will be no further support until he agrees to negotiate peace talks,