The assumption with providing more ammo and weapons is that this is all Ukraine needs to prevail over Russia. There's really no good reason or evidence to believe this. Ukraine already had a formidable military with 260K+ active army, 200 combat aircraft air force and thousands of artillery, tanks, APC/IFVs, etc. Before Russia's invasion, Ukraine had more artillery and tanks than Germany, France and Britain combined. Since start of the war, Ukraine got hundreds more artillery pieces (mainly 155mm type), hundreds of Soviet block tanks (modernized T-72s from Poland and others) and over a 1.5M rounds of just 155mm artillery shells not to mention ammo for MLRS and old Soviet block artillery systems and other types military equipment. NATO/US spy planes are flying around Ukraine 24/7 providing intel and targeting information. The US alone committed $113B in aid to Ukraine in just 10 months. And CSIS explained back in November, this number is likely to go up as the latest aid approval ($45B) will run out by end of Spring  or early Summer 2023. And yet Ukraine needs more. There's no end in sight for this war. Even worse, Ukraine is now on the backfoot losing territory after we were incessantly told Russia is on its last legs and about to collapse, the newly mobilized troops would not fight but desert en masse, Russia is running out of missiles, etc. This war has shades of Afghanistan/Vietnam where there's doubling down on clearly unwinnable war.

The assumption with providing more ammo and weapons is that this is all Ukraine needs to prevail over Russia. There's really no good reason or evidence to believe this. Ukraine already had a formidable military with 260K+ active army, 200 combat aircraft air force and thousands of artillery, tanks, APC/IFVs, etc. Before Russia's invasion, Ukraine had more artillery and tanks than Germany, France and Britain combined. Since start of the war, Ukraine got hundreds more artillery pieces (mainly 155mm type), hundreds of Soviet block tanks (modernized T-72s from Poland and others) and over a 1.5M rounds of just 155mm artillery shells not to mention ammo for MLRS and old Soviet block artillery systems and other types military equipment. NATO/US spy planes are flying around Ukraine 24/7 providing intel and targeting information. The US alone committed $113B in aid to Ukraine in just 10 months. And CSIS explained back in November, this number is likely to go up as the latest aid approval ($45B) will run out by end of Spring  or early Summer 2023. And yet Ukraine needs more. There's no end in sight for this war. Even worse, Ukraine is now on the backfoot losing territory after we were incessantly told Russia is on its last legs and about to collapse, the newly mobilized troops would not fight but desert en masse, Russia is running out of missiles, etc. This war has shades of Afghanistan/Vietnam where there's doubling down on clearly unwinnable war.

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