Great questions. The answer seems to be that they (our government) don't care. What matters is exporting the weapons as a sign of "resolve." As a way of "weakening" Russia. And as yet another boondoggle for the MICC.
What this all amounts to is an undeclared proxy war against Russia. So far, Russia has only issued warnings; how long before one side miscalculates and we no longer need a proxy because U.S. forces will be engaged directly?
We're risking World War III, and possibly a nuclear war, over a country that isn't vital to our national defense. And we're doing it blithely while patting ourselves on the back for standing up to Putin.
The stupid -- it hurts. And a very big hurt may be coming.
The goal from the start was for Ukraine to lose the war, and I really doubt that more than a token M777 howitzer was sent. Getting it 1000km cross Ukraine from Poland was always impractical and they are supposed to fire up to a trucks worth of ammunition a day. Was never going to happen.
The real effort has gone into the pretence that Ukraine ever had a chance even back in February.
They lost their navy, air force, air defence and all possibilities of manoeuvring that first week,
The UAF slaughtered now in Donbas and earlier in Mariupol were dug in back in Feb and haven't been able to move since then.
What has been entirely predictable has been deliberately ignored as Western leaders and media have continued to demand Ukraine fights to the las Ukrainian. This has been a staggeringly Evil act by the west.
So why? Getting the $41.5bn bill through was only part of it.
In 2014 the US coup gave them control of a huge country on the border of Russia, a huge strategic gain. That Russia grabbed Crimea and Donbas still left a huge win for US. (more accurately bits of Ukraine rebelled in civil war and turned to Russia amid threats by the new nazis and sustained ill treatment of those not loyal to Kiev).
Rather than accept a good thing, Kiev was pushed on to attack the Donbas resulting in 2 big military defeats in a civil war with rebels (there is no firm evidence of Russian intervention though they supplied intelligence and weapons much like US supplied much support to Poroshenko).
Still by 2016 US/Kiev had the option of accepting Minsk 1&2, reducing the direct involvement of UAF in Nato and perhaps a few critical words on the Nazis, and then Ukraine would have remained a US controlled giant country on the border of Russia.
Instead someone chose to create chaos and Mayhem instead, Parallels with Syria/iran are obvious. The nasty nazis were promoted into heroic heroes and given substantial control over the UAF. Shelling of civilians in Donbas was made routine. Western media largely played along.
A Ukraine Russia could live with was turned into a Ukraine no one could ever live in. A Nightmare. Syria and Libya combined.
And this was a deliberate choice. Probably Biden's gameplan from 2012/13
Great questions. The answer seems to be that they (our government) don't care. What matters is exporting the weapons as a sign of "resolve." As a way of "weakening" Russia. And as yet another boondoggle for the MICC.
What this all amounts to is an undeclared proxy war against Russia. So far, Russia has only issued warnings; how long before one side miscalculates and we no longer need a proxy because U.S. forces will be engaged directly?
We're risking World War III, and possibly a nuclear war, over a country that isn't vital to our national defense. And we're doing it blithely while patting ourselves on the back for standing up to Putin.
The stupid -- it hurts. And a very big hurt may be coming.
The goal from the start was for Ukraine to lose the war, and I really doubt that more than a token M777 howitzer was sent. Getting it 1000km cross Ukraine from Poland was always impractical and they are supposed to fire up to a trucks worth of ammunition a day. Was never going to happen.
The real effort has gone into the pretence that Ukraine ever had a chance even back in February.
They lost their navy, air force, air defence and all possibilities of manoeuvring that first week,
The UAF slaughtered now in Donbas and earlier in Mariupol were dug in back in Feb and haven't been able to move since then.
What has been entirely predictable has been deliberately ignored as Western leaders and media have continued to demand Ukraine fights to the las Ukrainian. This has been a staggeringly Evil act by the west.
So why? Getting the $41.5bn bill through was only part of it.
In 2014 the US coup gave them control of a huge country on the border of Russia, a huge strategic gain. That Russia grabbed Crimea and Donbas still left a huge win for US. (more accurately bits of Ukraine rebelled in civil war and turned to Russia amid threats by the new nazis and sustained ill treatment of those not loyal to Kiev).
Rather than accept a good thing, Kiev was pushed on to attack the Donbas resulting in 2 big military defeats in a civil war with rebels (there is no firm evidence of Russian intervention though they supplied intelligence and weapons much like US supplied much support to Poroshenko).
Still by 2016 US/Kiev had the option of accepting Minsk 1&2, reducing the direct involvement of UAF in Nato and perhaps a few critical words on the Nazis, and then Ukraine would have remained a US controlled giant country on the border of Russia.
Instead someone chose to create chaos and Mayhem instead, Parallels with Syria/iran are obvious. The nasty nazis were promoted into heroic heroes and given substantial control over the UAF. Shelling of civilians in Donbas was made routine. Western media largely played along.
A Ukraine Russia could live with was turned into a Ukraine no one could ever live in. A Nightmare. Syria and Libya combined.
And this was a deliberate choice. Probably Biden's gameplan from 2012/13