My understanding is that the military aid we give
by Brahms (2024-02-20 10:59:30)

In reply to: Ukraine could win, but nobody wants to help with that.  posted by OITLinebacker


...largely comes in the form of vacating old stock, along with allocations for jobs in the US to restock.

In the interim, we learn a lot about Russian capes (while weakening Russia), and get intel on new tactics.


The costs for not supporting Ukraine are grave (in no particular order):

1. an emboldened genocidal and revanchist Putin who only responds to strength, who would be even better positioned to weaponize food and oil and sew asymmetric warfare and de-stabilization efforts throughout the world.

2. a Ukraine that will be surely raped as a result of a major loss.

3. loss of US credibility in the eyes of US allies.

4. an emboldened China, who is even more long-term oriented than Putin, who would take note of America's appetite to staying the course in the face of blatant aggression.

5. an emboldened China who would step in to support on-the-fence allies who are unsure of US's willpower and direction.

6. more broadly, a disrupted rules-based / multipolar world order, [something about the 1980's calling and bringing their foreign policy back with a larger and more unhinged axis of evil].