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I mean since Lend Lease is in effect Biden has a lot more power to just give war material if he's running up short financially.
Really how the US does most of its most effective work, find a partner, give them the guns, ask the pursers forgiveness rather than permission when war material doesn't come back in the condition it was loaned in.
And it's hard to imagine that the American military doesn't think the war in Ukraine is a big win. I mean, it's horrible, and I can't imagine anyone is happy that all those kids in both sides are losing their lives, full stop. But given that it's happening:
It's expensive but it's money well spent even for selfish reasons, let alone it's the right thing to do.
Here's what will happen; because I don't see how it won't happen again. After the war, Russia will be a broken state financially. But all Western powers will be too chicken shit to let the country break up into smaller independent states. Some nation will get greedy and start pouring money and investment into Russia because the war is officially over and "relations must normalize" and we can't let all those "poor, innocent Russians" starve. Of course civil war would be seen as a disaster, too. All the old power structures will stay in place, but titles will change. World still on the edge of disaster because people are too scared to let things die to be reborn better.
One word: China