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.
Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex. Add to that the green energy-industrial complex. Endless wars are just vehicles to launder and redistribute taxpayer money. Ukraine was one of the most corrupt countries in the world before the war. A leopard doesn’t change its spots. Imagine the level of corruption when the political elites tell us we must spend hundreds of billions to rebuild Ukraine, one of the poorest countries in Europe.
What I find incomprehensible on FR is the blind faith some place in the incompetent, compromised Biden Administration staffed by the same fools and knaves who got us involved in the 2014 coup of the duly elected government of Ukraine. It spawned the separatist movement in the Donbas and the first Russian invasion, unopposed, that resulted in the annexation of Crimea. This war has been ongoing for almost ten years. Our aid is just postponing the inevitable. A negotiated settlement is the only way out.