If Biden actually let Ukraine fight back he might not be able to stretch out his 10% for ever.
Umm Z man, why are you asking for permission, you are at war! Sheesh what a dumb ass
It’s looking more and more like that Trump (and Biden himself, really) is going to end that “forever” 10% to Biden, in a few more months, one way or another.
I can understand Z-man asking for more weapons, and for more flexibility, on all fronts, but if I was him, I’d particularly concentrate on drones whose place of manufacture can’t be pinpointed after use. IIRC, the Euro’s were promising 2 million drones in a year, and Ukraine was planning to build 1 million. Make a sufficient number of those long range enough to take out all of Russia’s refineries, and keep them “out”, and Russia will grind to a halt. Russia will undoubtedly respond by bombing the hell out of Ukraine, especially the energy grid, to the extent that they can do so in addition to what they are already doing. But to counter that, a very vigorous supply of small and medium small generators (all energy types except nuclear and hydro?), small pickup size “fuel trucks”, and so on, can keep the Ukies heads above water. Russia perhaps could try to drone all the generators and trucks, but the civilian casualties would be tremendous. Even the Chinese would balk at that, IMO.
In any event, the struggle becomes highly asymmetric: Ukraine needs only to knock out a few dozen refineries, while Russia has hundreds of thousands of targets to deal with.