What exactly are the Ukrainians up to? Their problem is on the battlefield now, not when all this complex new equipment is delivered in any meaningful numbers (which may be never) or when they learn to adequately support and maintain it (which is very
likely to be never). Were they to demand former Soviet tanks, SAMs and aircraft (still piles of it all out there) which they know how to operate and support, that would make much more sense. This continuum of western technology wants certainly is more of
a political exercise, but to what end? More of making Ukraine an ersatz member of the West? To make the introduction of NATO forces more likely if the upcoming Russian offensive is successful and the warnings we hear of the Ukrainian forces now being spent
turn out to be true? (Some real signs of that.) Locking in Western support via the new sales and replenishments that Western manufacturers are enjoying and their implied support for the political system to "keep it up?"
The continuation of this war is as ugly as its origin.
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