Backing Ukraine Against Russia, With Colin Kahl and Derek Chollet
War on the Rocks
Should We Have Spent the Billion Dollars on Stinger Missiles?
The United States has given Ukraine five, six times their defense budget from 2021. A Patriot battery costs a billion dollars and the interceptors for them are extraordinarily expensive. The M1 Abrams tank is hard to maintain and it was going to take them a while to get it to the Ukrainians when and if we provided it. And that's exactly what we're prioritizing in our various packages.
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