or is about to. Check Republic will aquire 1.5 Million Artillery shells on the world market. That is about that market and if you consider used car salesmen shady, you are mistaken.
I wonder what makes everyone believe they'd meet in a nice arms trade show meeting room, it is CIA guys afterall.
Also, they will have to buy outside of NATO, which is the Westen part of the Northern Hemisphere and quite possible will have to skip BRISC nations right along with all those nations they have ripped off in the past.
That is little left.
So, I am sure after some calls through embassies they'll meet someone like the Irish wanna be IRA guys in Sons of Anarchy, some Crew of ex CIA field agents that made new friends as privateers.
Meaning, I don't quite see NATO ships creating a stable supply route into an established stable nation to import ship loads of ammo for against someone that was in the past the nation with the cheaper and more reliable everything.
Thailand, Mexico, Kenya, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Paraguay and that's about it in terms of direct sales, the rest is shady salesmen.
The only save place is Taiwan all the rest might one morning miss a functional factory with a Vodka bottle at the gate as a hint while the rest is done period and Taiwanese ships might then soon face ambitioned Huthi's using even more Iranian gear, while the other route along the West Coast of Africa is in the Lagos Delta home to Pirates already minding Western Oil riggs that will need little convincing to step up their game in need of hardly more than faster boats and shoulder launched missiles, I guess. All this is making me wonder when the NATO and Russian "Sales Men" will meet in a jungle camp with an all black rebell smiling at them looking forward to cutting the best deal starting with "Welcome to mahi hohm'!" kicking off WW4 the freak way. My friends, I have not met yet.
Stupid is funny, but this can get so badly out of hand....
#WW4
