[wildcard_redneck]

If the Ukrainian army is so mighty then we can quit sending the money, right?

[Zhang Fei]

Ukraine ping

wildcard_redneck: [If the Ukrainian army is so mighty then we can quit sending the money, right?]

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Even in the Stone Age, a man with a club generally beat an unarmed man. Once ranged weapons came into the picture, the gap widened into a chasm. And in the gunpowder and missile age, it’s clear grit only goes so far. That’s why we supply Ukraine. They have the courage to fight on even though the odds are stacked against them. What they need is weaponry that their far smaller economy cannot afford.

When Germany invaded Russia in 1941, the Russian empire’s population was almost 4x Germany’s. Russia had two continents worth of natural resources. It shouldn’t have needed a plug nickel from the US to ward off Germany. And yet it did. For each year of the war, the US handed to Russia roughly the current US defense budget, about 3% of the 1941 US economy. Among other things, it represented 400,000 jeeps and trucks, 14,000 planes and 13,000 tanks.

https://www.rferl.org/a/did-us-lend-lease-aid-tip-the-balance-in-soviet-fight-against-nazi-germany/30599486.html

And even with this unprecedented - before and since - gush of American cash and equipment to the Russians, they spent the first two years of the war fighting within their own territory.