On munitions and attrition.

If the will were there producing more would not be an issue. A small tidbit of military history...for just about every large war in the last 100 years the respective militaries involved have been surprised at how many shells they were going through and would need to produce going forward.

Attritional wars tend to follow Hemingway's "going broke gradually, then suddenly" quote.

I don't think Ukraine's victory or defeat is all on the the US, though it does sadden me to see we've stepped away from what we used to stand for. Trump is Trump and we all know what that is bringing to the conflict. However, I also felt the Biden administration's slow dripping of support was just morally bankrupt. I understood the caution to not throw a bunch of arms and resources to a country potentially going down, but once it became clear Ukraine could hold, really disgusting.

This sort of stuff was my life for a long time...and I don't think we've had a really solid foreign policy team since Bush 1.