I don't disagree with most of this. My point is only that if the West is not sending Ukraine SOTA across the board, it's not a serious handicap AFAICT.
if the PATRIOT missile systems that were promised were actually delivered ukraine would already be in a better position to defend against the countrywide missile attacks that have been going on. the problem i have with this is that the goal is not to end the conflict as much as it is to maintain the status quo.
Patriots are ridiculously expensive (a cool billion per battery), and best kept for certain missile threats. There are other cheaper weapons for other missile threats.
But yeah, Western assistance is more of a slow drip than a proper flow.
maybe that was a bad example, sorry. but i feel like we are on the same page so no hard feelings. actually i was thinking about patriots because of this bellingcat investigation where they were able to identify them from their interference with sentinel-1 satellites:
