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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The U.S. is understandably concerned about their own supplies. With the chip shortages and other supply chain issues they won’t be able to replace hardware anywhere near as quickly as the military has prepared for.
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The depleting their own supplies bit is bunk. The US has so much other arms stockpiles and overlapping capabilities that giving away some of the supplies for things specifically like Manpads, towed artillery, and Javelins that its not really a big deal at all.
Most of the US hardware is designed to counter Russian hardware and its actively doing what it's designed to do, take Russian equipment off the board. Its not like Russians will be able to replenish quicker than the US can either. Perun's video on this outlines this quite well.
The only real problem with depleting supplies of some of these things is a potential conflict with China, but that is mostly going to be fought in the Taiwan straits with different types of equipment and China will not have the capability to launch that type of assault prior to 2030 without huge build out of equipment and military spending, which there would be intel on far ahead of time.