Its not a great time to be spending the cash and
enabling people to get killed over something that we cannot change. And, we aren’t about to share “advanced American military equipment” with a neighbor of Russia, not very stable, full of desperate people who would sell that stuff in a heartbeat.
Although Putin does have those Kremlin guards in those oddball uniforms (I’m sure they were extra cast costumes from a production of “Daughter of the Regiment”), he is aware of his limitations.
I really do not know what "spending" you may be referring to. My proposal was that the US might sell this equipment to Ukraine--not give it away, for free.
Although Putin does have those Kremlin guards in those oddball uniforms (I’m sure they were extra cast costumes from a production of “Daughter of the Regiment”), he is aware of his limitations.
It remains unclear just what he believes those "limitations" may be. However, there would appear to be indications that he may move on the rest of Ukraine. And he also may attempt to take the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (which, like Crimea, have large ethnic-Russian populations; thereby providing the perfect pretext).