This crap optimism is just to get more money from the US. We need to stop. We are spending more on Ukraine than the Iraq war.
Yes we can send them weapons so both sides can turn Ukraine into Dresden. But then what do we have. A toxic war zone. And rich US military vendors.
This is not productive.
What’s not productive is the US projecting weakness. That’s what makes hot wars like this one. What is productive is kicking Russia’s influence and corruption out of Europe. That will bring massive economic benefits to the US that President Trump will manage properly in his 2nd term.
It can be argued that your viewpoint is erroneous
The American money in question is in error considered by neo isolationists to be unacceptable expense.
Viewed differently and correctly, the American money is not expense but rather investment. That is by investing money in the Ukraine war with Russia, America is making an investment for which there can and will be a large dividend.
That dividend is the destruction of the perpetual Russian enemy for some notable period of time.
Even if what you said were true (which it isn't), anything that denies Russia victory is productive, even more so if it is not costing any American lives.