Damn, son. It wasn't supposed to end like this!
Russia was supposed to be isolated. But now it has allies?
The combined economic output of NATO exceed Russia 20 to 1. So, for each tank Russia deploys, we can send 20 of them to Ukraine.
What happens instead is the wages of de-industrialization and the turn to service-based economy. Now the impoverished North Korea is some kind of towering giant of military might when compared to our proxy that got everything we had.
The dominant narrative is shifting towards the betrayal of Ukraine by not giving it enough gibs. That is of course completely false. We sent everything we had.
Remember Jake Sullivan saying on TV how he assembled his team, and made them collect ALL missiles to be sent to Ukraine - every last one of them. The nations deprived of missiles were not very happy, but they had to deal with it. Either way, we sent Ukraine EVERYTHING.
Russia was supposed to be isolated. But now it has allies?
The combined economic output of NATO exceed Russia 20 to 1. So, for each tank Russia deploys, we can send 20 of them to Ukraine.
What happens instead is the wages of de-industrialization and the turn to service-based economy. Now the impoverished North Korea is some kind of towering giant of military might when compared to our proxy that got everything we had.
The dominant narrative is shifting towards the betrayal of Ukraine by not giving it enough gibs. That is of course completely false. We sent everything we had.
Remember Jake Sullivan saying on TV how he assembled his team, and made them collect ALL missiles to be sent to Ukraine - every last one of them. The nations deprived of missiles were not very happy, but they had to deal with it. Either way, we sent Ukraine EVERYTHING.
@union We can't send them everything we have, we have stock level requirements that we can't go below.
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@kazriko The whole point of Jake Sullivan's answer was that he used and abused his supposed authority in the Administration to bypass these restrictions and send every last one -- but of only one type, the MIM-104. Indeed for ATACMS we only sent 1/3 of the whole number ever produced, or perhaps about 60% of available supply.
@union You mean Patriot missiles, which variant? Did we just send them all of our PAC-1 or PAC-2 missiles?
@kazriko I'm pretty sure he exaggerated his accomplishment. As you said, there are some that are needed for U.S. Army and are in front-line inventories in places like Kuwait.