(June 21, 2023 at 6:29 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: It's not the amount (or % of military budget) that matters, but rather the speed of delivery that saves lives. The War started on Feb 24, 2022. F-16s and the rest should have been in play by the end of 2022 or beginning of 2023 at the latest.
"Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticized the Biden administration for the pace it's taking to approve weapons systems to Ukraine, given that the embattled country is the "most important" foreign policy issue the U.S. is facing "right now."
Go here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...ry%202022.
Click on the ‘Donors’ section. Scroll down to ‘United States’. Read through the list and learn how much military aid was delivered to Ukraine in the first three months of the war. Then, expand your myopic horizons and learn what US military assets were in place before the war started.
Mr. Gates is as far off on this as you are.
Boru
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