Eric, We have gotten a lot of "bang for our buck" For sure. Mr. HIMARS, Sir Storm Shadow, and General ATACMS are all becoming obsolete, yet they have proven to be "game-changers" in Ukraine's war against RuZZia.
We're even giving Ukraine a handful of our old M1 tanks from Operation Desert Storm, though they won't likely be "game-changers."
Same with F-16s. Nice fighter jets, but they're already obsolete thanks to the current reliance on F/A-18s, and thanks to the F-35, a.k.a. the Joint Strike Boondoggle.
Same with hOrRiFiC cluster munitions. We were about to get rid of them, but now they're proving to be very useful force-multipliers against RuZZia's "quantity over quality" tactics.
The only issues I have are (a) some of that aid should have come months earlier, and (b) we're still telling Ukraine not to strike targets within RuZZia, even though RuZZia strikes civilian targets within Ukraine without any consequence whatsoever.
Then there's the problem that, after F-16s, we won't have anything more substantial to provide, other than more of the same*.
If only we had leadership in the Brandon administration that can think 2-3 moves ahead ...
Tenchusatsu
* "More of the same" isn't really a bad thing, though. If we could ramp up production of cluster munitions, Excalibur shells, and HIMARS, we could finally match the quality of our weapons with the quantity that Ukraine needs. |
