KYIV

“WE’VE USED IT ALL.”

Ukraine’s answer to Israel’s request that it return ammunition sent to Kyiv at the request of the United States, is the verbal equivalent of a shoulder shrug.

“The Ukrainians will have used that ammunition up by now,” says Dole Smuggler of The Other Side a left-wing think tank based in Havana. “The problem for both Ukraine and Israel is that the really big arms suppliers now are the Russians and the Iranians. The West is running out of everything.

“What this does mean, is that there will be a shortage of ammunition somewhere where it is desperately needed.”