I want to emphasize that your list is just the American supplied weapons. The Euros have essentially doubled(?) that. So, what do all these weapons do if you have no human capital left? It’s all about manpower. I would rather have a motivated fighting force than all this, putting aside the fact that Russia has “all of this” and more. The West believes that the next wizzbang tech turns the tide. Wrong. Let’s suppose some of this is incrementally better than what Russia can field. So what? Russia is removing 400 Nazis a day. Who is left to drive these things? 13 year old boys or 70 year old men? The West is still learning the age-old military axiom that infantry rules. And Wagner is gonna Wagner.

(Not saying myself either that the corpse of the US isn’t a third world dirt hole that gives banana republic a dirty name, but none of it will be allowed on the black market here. It would be too dangerous to the corrupt if people who aren’t crazy can arm an army, even if it would be with cruddy overwrought tools.)

The only reason they didn’t want to send M-1s was to spare us the embarrassment of seeing how it performs against a peer force