It definitely bugs me that we're better at supplying the Ukrainian military than we are at supplying our own. In a perfect world I'd like to see us saying "Okay, we'll by x amount of this, half for ourselves then half for Ukraine."
But I understand why we don't do that. Our procurement is so broken, we can't supply our own military without paying off certain companies first, Irving or Bombardier have to get their pound of flesh otherwise it won't happen. At least we don't have that hurdle with supplying Ukraine.
At least the more Russian equipment destroyed now is less they have to potentially use against us in the future, or more importantly, sell to any other of our potential enemies like Iran
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