US military aid to Ukraine is good, but not good enough. The reason is the conceptual mistake that Americans continue to make..

" But it’s time to understand that this is “our” war too and act accordingly,” wrote Max Booth, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, in the Washington Post..

Russia did not attack only one country. It attacked the very foundation of the international order on the basis of the rules that the US and allies were rebuilding after 1945.. If Moscow gets away with its aggression, it will send a signal to dictators around the world that they can do as they please.. And the West is too weak to stop them. Vladimir Putin lays claim to the Baltic states, which, like Ukraine, were part of the Russian Empire. China claims Taiwan. An attack against Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia or Taiwan will soon drag the US into a conflict that will soon escalate into World War III.

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Therefore, the best way to keep the peace is to help Ukraine fight back against the Russian invaders, inflicting crushing losses on them.. This will send a powerful message not only to Putin, but to every dictator on the planet: don't mess with the West..

" We provide the Ukrainians with enough weapons not to be defeated, but not enough to win.. On the battlefield in the Donbass, enemy artillery has a numerical advantage over Ukrainian artillery in the proportion of 10 to 1 on the field. This is unacceptable. We would not be so stingy if US troops were at the front, ”the author notes..

Brown University's Cost of War Project estimates that since September 11, 2001, the US has spent more than $3 trillion on the war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan.. This amount does not include trillions more dollars spent on support for veterans and defense on American soil.. This means that every month Washington spent an average of $12 billion per month on the war for 21 years..

For comparison, since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, the United States has allocated $ 5.6 billion in military assistance.. And this is taking into account the last tranche of 1 billion, which was announced last week.. As for helping a foreign country, that's a lot. But this is a trifle, if you evaluate this amount through the prism of American spending on wars.. If this was an American conflict, Washington would have already spent $48 billion since February.

Bout says this stark difference helps explain why U.S. aid doesn't contain much of what Ukraine contradicts.. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that in order to achieve " US donates 126 howitzers, 4 HIMARS systems, 200 armored vehicles and 121 Phoenix Ghost drones. The allies also allocated certain equipment, but in total this is still not enough.

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US does not send planes or tanks to Ukraine. The Biden administration is not just refusing to supply F-16 or A-10 fighters, it is refusing to supply Ukraine with MiG-29s that Poland is ready to give.. Retired Gen. David Deptula said the U.S. has 200 MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones in stock that can be shipped quickly to the Ukrainian army.. Armed with Hellfire missiles, these drones could change the course of events in the Donbass. But the Biden administration has yet to send a single Gray Eagle to Ukraine..

“We are supporting the Ukrainian army as quickly as possible,” said General Mark Milley, Chief of the Joint Command of Staff..

But this is not true. You can bet on the entire cryptocurrency of the world, if the United States lost 100 soldiers daily in battles, they would send more air and armored forces, as well as artillery, to the front lines.. Washington didn't tell his troops, " Do whatever you can" But this is what he is now saying to Ukraine. Are American lives worth more than Ukrainian ones It shouldn't be like this, says the author..

The Biden administration and its defenders have many excuses why more can't be done.. Like, America does not want to go to war with Russia. The situation is not as critical as Ukrainians say. Or they are simply not able to quickly master a large amount of technology.. Also, as an argument against sending weapons to Ukraine, there is an assumption that American technology could fall into the hands of the Russians.. Or that the United States has very limited stocks in warehouses, or that American weapons are qualitatively better than Russian ones, so smaller supplies will be enough for Ukrainians.. And so on.

Booth writes that none of these explanations can adequately explain Washington's refusal to do more.. Politicians should be asking themselves: “What would we do if American soldiers were dying in the Donbass?”? And then act accordingly. This does not mean that you need to directly attack Russia.. But America must provide Ukraine with the resources to win the war Russia is waging against the entire West..