I envy the optimism in here. I think we're content to continue bleeding Russia ... for as long as possible, which sucks for Ukrainians because along with the dead Russians you've got stacks of dead Ukrainians as well.
If we wanted this over quickly I think it would be. I don't think it's even a party issue, I think it's a national interests issue. If we can supply some people somewhere else across the oceans some old equipment and chicken feed to do our bidding as a byproduct why wouldn't we want to keep that gravy train rolling. If we provide too much support, it ends, or Russia freaks out. Best to keep a trickle flow going, right? That is, unfortunately, what I see occurring.
We need to shit or get off the pot, at this rate we're bordering on being complicit for a lot of dead Ukrainians ... the only thing preventing our image being blemished at this time is being on a moral high ground but it's starting to look like a facade.
We're going to run out of old crap to send. We already supplemented cluster munitions we didn't want anymore because we ran out of shells we were sending. We're going to run out of more stuff -- it's going to carry a higher price tag, and it's going to become a political issue for politicians everywhere in the west.
Ukraine will win, depending on how you define win. I don't see this ending up black and white, I see fucked up concessions coming down the pipeline in the end.