More aid! More aid! More aid!

From Hot Air

“While Ukraine is flush with weapons and other military supplies and equipment, however, Ministry of Defense officials and volunteer fighters are both quietly admitting that they lack the capacity to absorb so much aid. Much of the equipment and weaponry requires new training to be used. Even when that is available it takes time. Similarly, the influx of 16,000 or more foreign volunteer fighters would seem like a decisive boon, but in fact almost none of them had any military experience or training. They proved little more than extra mouths to feed in most cases, according to Ministry of Defense staff and some of the volunteer foreign special forces soldiers on the ground.”

https://hotair.com/headlines/2022/05/14/ukraine-is-in-worse-shape-than-you-think-n469339

A month or so back, a US congressman argued that the Air Force needed to send three squadrons of A-10s to Ukraine right now. Anybody with any sense would immediately say, “Who’s going to fly them? Who’s going to maintain them?” Politicians talked, too, about sending howitzer ammunition from US stocks. The US and Ukraine don’t shoot the same ammunition. Our bullets do not fit in their guns.

It’s all smoke and mirrors and thousands of dead Russians and Ukrainians.