> so we had better have some contingencies for a second theater. USA doesn't have a first theater yet--no troops have been mobilized into Europe. The $1T/yea

> so we had better have some contingencies for a second theater. USA doesn't have a first theater yet--no troops have been mobilized into Europe. The $1T/year US military budget is insanely large. Chucking a few $B to Ukraine is not deteriorating anything. Supporting Ukraine is basically a cheap way to tie up Russia and use up old equipment that would have been retired anyway. US defense industry is known to keep making new stuff and retiring the old in order to keep production lines from dying. There is a very deep reserve for all that stuff. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CmXz8Qd9yw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CmXz8Qd9yw As for Taiwan, after the war started, Biden made removed the ambiguity around US involvement. And Taiwan has been preparing for a Chinese invasion far longer than Ukraine preparing for the Russian invasion (mostly since 2014). At this point, it's clear that if China invaded Taiwan, they'd have to do it entirely themselves. I don't think they're ready to take that risk.