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MissgeopoliticsUkraine will stop receiving this type of US weapons/materiel support within about five or six months of May 2022 (by ~October–November 2022) because US stockpiles will be exhausted.
A scored prediction by Peter Zeihan, made on .
Scored prediction
Missgeopolitics“this calendar year the ukrainians are probably going to cease getting this sort of support from the united states in about five or six months because that's when the cupboard will literally be dry”
Ukraine will stop receiving this type of US weapons/materiel support within about five or six months of May 2022 (by ~October–November 2022) because US stockpiles will be exhausted.
- Made on
- 2022-05-19
- Outcome
- Miss
- Importance
- 3 / 5
- Effect on score
- -0.84
What counted as right
- Status
- resolved
- Settled on
- 2022-11-30
By ~November 2022, US transfers of the relevant weapon/materiel category to Ukraine have ceased due to stockpile exhaustion.
Criterion: by ~Nov 2022, U.S. transfers of the relevant weapon/materiel category to Ukraine have CEASED due to stockpile exhaustion. Evidence is clearly AGAINST: transfers continued throughout October and November 2022 (NASAMS delivered Nov 2022; ongoing PDA packages) and into December 2022 and 2023. No cessation occurred in the predicted ~5–6-month (~Oct–Nov 2022) window, and certainly not 'due to stockpile exhaustion.' This is the near-term corollary of the year-end stockpile claim and resolves the same direction. Outcome value (o) deliberately not assigned (later stage).
Sources
The Ukraine War and Materiel
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Evidence of what happened
U.S. weapons/materiel transfers to Ukraine did NOT cease in the Oct–Nov 2022 window. In November 2022 the first NASAMS arrived (a presidential drawdown from U.S. stockpiles), and the cadence of PDA packages continued. Military.com (Nov 24, 2022) reports continued U.S. aid drawing on the Pentagon's arms stockpile during this exact period.
On Dec 9, 2022 (27th drawdown) and Dec 21, 2022 (28th drawdown, incl. Patriot + more HIMARS ammunition/155mm/GRAD/tank rounds), the U.S. was still transferring the relevant weapon/materiel categories from existing stocks — well after the predicted ~Oct–Nov 2022 cessation date.
CRS 'U.S. Security Assistance to Ukraine' confirms a continuous series of presidential drawdown packages from existing stocks through fall 2022 and beyond — transfers of the relevant categories never stopped in the Oct–Nov 2022 timeframe.
Corrections
No public corrections.
Effect on the score
-0.84- How sure they sounded
- 80%
- Outcome
- Miss
- Importance
- 3 / 5
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Where this came from
Ukraine will stop receiving this type of US weapons/materie…- Methodology version
- v1.0.0
- Last computed
- August 2, 2026
- Made on
- 2022-05-19
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