“I think the Russians are slow-playing the Ukraine war in part to further bleed the United States.”
They certainly know that it will be YEARS (probably 5 to 10) before we can fully replace our weapons. I suspect the military-haters running our government is just discovering the same (they thought it was just a matter of turning the lights on at a Lockheed plant, LOL).
So, an initial objective of the military operation was to de-militarize Ukraine, but thanks to the Neocons, the Russians are now in the process of de-militarizing NATO.
Assuming this crap ends without a nuclear war, it will be interesting to see what Russia extracts from the Neocons, since the balance of power will be hugely favorable to Russia (which is why I always opposed our involvement there).
“Ukraine has used thirteen years of Javelin production in ten months.”