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$75B is a lot of money. The problem is that due to concerns about escalation, The U.S. has fairly consistently provided just enough to maintain the status quo.
by cameldrv 3y ago
$75B is a lot of money. The problem is that due to concerns about escalation, The U.S. has fairly consistently provided just enough to maintain the status quo.
Just as an example, The U.S. finally provided ATACMS in October of last year, and in their first night they destroyed a ton of Russian attack helicopters, and essentially made the whole area close to the front off-limits to Russian helicopters. Had these missiles come six months earlier, those helicopters wouldn't have been eviscerating Ukranian armor conducting the counteroffensive.
The real question is what the goal is here. Are we going to just keep putting in calibrated amounts of weapons to keep the meat grinder going, or are we trying to provide Ukraine some sort of victory?