[CliffFletcher]

I don’t get where this narrative that the U.S. is holding back support is coming from. Ukraine is blowing through munitions at an astonishing rate (as militaries in hot wars do). The U.S. doesn’t have infinite stockpiles of artillery, SAMS, etc. And no country’s military brass is going to be okay with reducing their own stockpiles beneath the minimums needed to meet their own defence needs*. American arms production capacity is ramping up, but that can’t be achieved in a few months.

* American military doctrine calls for the capacity to fight two overseas hot wars simultaneously (ie in Europe and in Asia), each consuming military hardware in at least the rate that we’re seeing in Ukraine. Given the growing power of China’s military, that’s a huge commitment of resources that need to be held back for national security.