The U.S., which had exhausted its military budget early on its superiority in asymmetric strategic weapons against Ukraine, is shifting from its Indo-Pacific strategy in Asian security to sales of asymmetric strategic weapons.
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida announced on the 8th that the Yomiuri Shimbun reported that the U.S. was preparing to respond to the shortage of the Ukraine warfare, saying that it was “coordinating” to attend the Asian security meeting in Singapore on June 10.
The U.S. government announced on the 8th that it would provide artillery and 25,000 artillery shells in an additional $150 million in military aid to Ukraine.
The U.S. repeatedly demanded $38 billion from the Congress for an additional budget for the exhausted military budget, demanded that Taiwan “purchase new weapons”, and the Ukrainian government announced that it would “start an offensive after mid-June” after receiving U.S. armament aid.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Olexi Arestovich will launch an anti-war offensive against the Russian military by specifying in a report on the situation of the war on the 4th that "the weapons provided by the US and Europe will be available after mid-June," Yomiuri reported on the 7th.
The New York Times reported on the 7th that the U.S. is putting pressure on orders for asymmetric warfare weapons in case of China's naval invasion of Taiwan, as it is not easy to supply weapons unlike the Ukraine war.
The United States sent five current and former security officials to Taiwan as a delegation to discuss asymmetric defense strategies, and the delegation's State Department official said, "Continuing to pursue a system that does not contribute to an effective defense strategy is inconsistent with the security threats facing Taiwan. "The United States strongly supports Taiwan's efforts to implement an asymmetric defense strategy," the statement said at the time.
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen is in favor of the transition to asymmetric warfare, and is pushing for a plan to purchase large quantities of mobile lethal weapons that are difficult to target or counterattack, the New York Times reported.
In 2019, the Trump administration approved the sale of $2.2 billion worth of arms to Taiwan, including 108 M1A2 Abrams tanks.
The U.S. government announced on the 8th that it will provide Ukraine with 90 howitzers so far, more than 180,000 shells, and three artillery radars and electronic jammers.
"Ukraine needs to show its willingness to continue supplying arms and ammunition to be successful in the next war," Biden said.
The Biden administration spent more than $350 million on arms supplies in its fiscal 2022 budget (October 2021-September 2022), and spent $33 billion on Ukrainian armaments in April, including $20 billion in military aid. He asked Congress for an additional budget.
Faced with a shortage of fuel budget, the US administration said that in the Ukraine war, Russia's tank armored personnel carriers and US-supported portable air defense missiles, anti-tank missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were superior to large infantry units. see.
Regarding Prime Minister Kishida's participation in the Asian Security Conference on the 8th, Yomiuri said, "With Russia's invasion of Ukraine and China's strengthening of maritime expansion, Japan will appeal for a unilateral change in maintaining the status quo by force and urge countries to unite." "The United States is rushing to provide massive aid to Ukraine and the budget is 'almost exhausted' to help," officials said.
The statement of the chairman of the UN Security Council on the 6th said, "I express deep concern for the maintenance of peace and security in Ukraine."
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin responded to a question about a phone call with Chinese Defense Secretary Wei Fenghe last month at a Senate hearing on the 3rd, saying, "I'm sure I'll see him at the Shangri-La Dialogue in June."
The Asian Security Conference (Shangri-La Dialogue) in Singapore on June 10 will be attended by national security officials in the Asia-Pacific region.
The 2019 South Korea-U.S.-Japan Defense Ministers' Meeting was held here to agree on a negotiating strategy for the North Korea-U.S. summit.
North Korea seems to have shifted to countermeasures against asymmetric power weapons led by the United States, as it completely halted the existing media presentation method by test-firing a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on the 7th and a semi-medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) on the 4th.
Asymmetric weapons attack vulnerable areas with weapons and tactics that the opposing country does not have, and confirmed the power of the target by killing a general in the attack of the Russian regular army in the Ukraine war, attacking a new attack suicide drone and jaebalin anti-tank, and sinking an air force aircraft and a Moscow ship.