Broken clocks, etc etc
The point wasn’t to help Ukraine it was to hurt Russia. They’ve spent about 3x (finding exact numbers is tough) what we have and they have less to spend in the first place.
I’m not defending that as a justification for how we’ve handled it but it’s the explanation. Kinda ****ed to let Ukraine go to hell to stick a thumb in Russia’s eye? Yeah, that’s geopolitics for you.
Ukraine could fall completely to Russia tomorrow and the US would’ve achieved its overall geopolitical goal with regard to the conflict. Whether that’s the goal we ought to have is a good conversation but acting like we were in it to win it, while forgivable because that’s how it’s been messaged because that’s how it has to be messaged, misses the point.