>> Unfortunately, as long as Russia stays inside Ukraine, we’ll have to keep up with Russia’s burning of moderate piles of cash.
“Unfortunately”...??? What the fresh hell is that horse crap. WHY? Why is it OUR problem? There are four hundred and fifty million Euroweenies. Their GDP is seventeen trillion to our twenty-three trillion. (Wherever the hell did you get that asinine “20 to 1 disparity in economic heft” nonsense? Pull it out of your ass, did you? More like one-to-one.)
Those sorry, greedy euro SOBs have done nothing but TAKE, TAKE and TAKE SOME MORE, ever since we bailed their sorry asses out in WWII. Do they want to “free Ukraine” so it can get back to making porn, and business deals with Biden? THEN LET THEM PAY.
We’re broke. And out of HIMARS, too.
The US has @500 HIMARS and @1000 M270’s (tracked versions).
I think between the US and the Euros about 35 launcher units have been sent, between HIMARS and M270. The GMLRS missiles are a munition that is in production, and that is ramping up. The US has sent a lot of GMLRS to Ukraine because thats the main tool the Ukrainians have for battlefield interdiction. But that is because they are obliged to do it that way, having nothing better. So they use a lot.
The US has way more, and much better, weapon systems than that for interdiction. The US is not going to be limited to small warheads with a 50 mile range.
NATO has been nothing but a millstone around our neck ever since the Euros abdicated their NATO responsibilities to “Let the Americans do it.” And also pay for it.