The EEeeee-Yewwwww needs to step up and cough up 66 Billion Buck$ to pay the US MIC to show the US House how aid for Ukraine should be done.
They are the ones who have The Bear at the door.
Europe is well ahead of the US in total aid for Ukraine. They just don’t have the weapons making capacity, and we’d be beyond crazy to wish they got ahead of us in such.
You raise an interesting question, though. Let’s say the Euro’s proposed a $20 billion deal to buy F-16’s to turn over to Ukraine. They could get ~ 400 older F-16’s, training, and a bloody mountain of munitions — luckily we have PLENTY of both. Throw in a few Patriot batteries for airfield AD.
Would Congress approve that? Would all FReepers (except for the obvious Pooty tools and trolls)?
It is true that the NATO countries outside of the US will COLLECTIVELY meet the 2% of GDP guidance for defense spending in 2024.