Agree with your assessment. As mentioned before, this is part of the propaganda war. Ukraine needs some successes to keep the money and weapons spigot open. The Biden Administration’s $62 billion budget request for Ukraine is stuck in the House. A vote in the House will be held next month.
Support for the war is declining in Europe and the US. The longer it goes on, the less the support. With a $2 trillion budget deficit this calendar year and over $800 billion in annual debt servicing costs (greater than DOD’s annual budget), we cannot afford these endless wars that don’t involve our strategic national interests. This fiscal year we will have another huge budget deficit and over $1 trillion in interest payments. Government spending is out of control.
Our woke military is experiencing significant recruitment and retention problems. The war in Ukraine is weakening us. America first.
Ukraine needs some successes to keep the money and weapons spigot open.
The U.S. MIC needs to keep the spigot open or lose billions of dollars. Like a coal miner of old, Ukraine gets money that is spent at the company store, that be us. As taxpayer dollars are all accounted for elsewhere, Ukraine is financed by borrowed dollars or simply printed dollars added to the federal debt. Ukraine is one method of funneling money out of the government.