Nice piece but I feel you're overlooking a hard reality. First, there's not much more to send without depleting the military's minimum weapons-on-hand requirements. I'm speculating of course. We'll see!

The question is how much have the weapons makers ramped up production? I'd love to know the answer to that. I suspect, not much. What this bill does is pay them up front to build more capacity. Until now, why build capacity if the war might end tomorrow?

Yet even with all the money, there are limits as Airbus and Boeing have experienced in different ways. This aid will take years to truly "materialize" is what I'm saying.

I know you and your readers won't call me a you-know what. In 5-15 years, if Russia seriously hurts the U.S. will American blame someone for having had us send so much material to a country to blow up the homes of 2 million people they're angry at? That material would have better served Ukraine and the U.S.'s national interests IMO.