IMHO, the aid should flow until the job is done. Put aside the moral mandate to help Ukraine for a moment, speaking from a purely geopolitical point of view, every aggressive dictator with eyes on a weaker neighbor’s territory is watching this thing play out. If the West lets Ukraine fall, how long before Taiwan or Kashmir, or Transnistria, or any other disputed territory follows? Not long.
The Ukrainians are doing the world a public service. The LEAST we can do is give them the tools to do the job. And we should give them in massive amounts SOONER rather than LATER. This garbage where we give aid, but only belatedly is dumb. It plays into Russia’s belief that the west will get bored and walk away. By not giving tanks or himars or jets or atacms or whatever quickly, Russia concludes that we’re close to our limit. WE are prolonging the war.
This aid is a FRACTION of our defense budget in the US. It’s a trivial amount of money for each western nation. Yet it will save so many lives in the long run. And my prediction is that the west will keep providing aid until Russia finally cries uncle…I just fear that is years away, and we’re going to continue giving the Ukrainians JUST ENOUGH to maintain parity with Russia, not enough to end the war.