Think what you want.
My question is since the materiel being sent to Ukraine is already paid for and the replacements are already paid for then what is all the billions of dollars paying for?
The point IS that those M777s were given to UKR (along with 40K rounds of shells) and now they US Army is buying more to replace the ones they gave away. The M777 may be an older system, but it is NOT mothballed and is still considered the US go-to towed artillery piece. You’re vastly generalizing what’s going on here and not being truthful with it, IMO.
And, those ‘billions of dollars’ are paying for retirements, salaries, other civil costs as well as unspecified, unaudited expenses. Who knows where all that money is going/went.