DOES

 

Dov S. Zakheim 

is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies 

and vice chairman of the board for the Foreign Policy Research Institute. 

He was under secretary of Defense (comptroller) 

and chief financial officer for the Department of Defense from 2001 to 2004 

and a deputy under secretary of Defense from 1985 to 1987.

not know there was just a Russian frigate off the coast of Fla doing computer simulated launches of  a missile we dont have a defense for???

Tanks for Ukraine: Too little, too late is not good enough

And that maybe?

Just maybe?

Thats the reason for:

"the administration’s unfortunate habit of deterring itself for fear of Russian retaliation."

I've been saying all along there's a reason for it.

And believe me...

Dov S. Zakheim knows it as well.

"Its concern about instigating World War III — which prevented it from sending HIMARS rocket systems and Bradley armored personnel carriers many months after the Ukrainians desperately called for them — now looks misplaced: World War III has not happened."

(Somebody wanna remind this guy it only takes once?)

"Perhaps, had these weapons and the tanks been sent to Ukraine in March or April 2022, the war might have ended by now."

Or, PERHAPS, you might have a frigate loaded with16 Zircon missiles off the eastern seaboard with Washington, NYC. etc set in their sights and nothing we could do about it... Maybe it is best if we "deter ourselves"?

Heres the thing?

How long can Ukraine keep on begging the West for Weaponry?

They are dead without it.

None of the amount of tanks mentioned is gonna do anything but rain down more missiles on Kiev.

Side note:

The fact that we have 

"But unlike Washington, which is unprepared to release any tanks from its stocks that are estimated to total as many as 8,000 tanks (at least 3,500 are in storage), the Europeans are ready to send the Ukrainians vehicles from their own currently available stockpiles."

8000 tanks with 3500 in storage?

And are only gonna send 31?

Sometime down the road?

Ought too be telling you about how the powers that be view the seriousness of this conflict.

it really should.