Didn't Help Much.

Tony Blinken is a typical product of Ivy League degree mill. He thinks that US Dollar numbers in war matter--they don't, when you are dealing with the country with comparable industrial (real economy that is) output. 

Washington has provided around $100 billion in financial aid and military assistance to Kiev since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. The bulk of the money was spent inside the US on defense manufacturing, he told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Wednesday. This comes amid recent efforts by the outgoing administration of US President Joe Biden to spend every dollar allocated by Congress before leaving office in January. “We’ve spent a lot of money on Ukraine and defending Ukraine, about $100 billion. Our allies and partners, they’ve spent about $150 billion doing it,” the secretary of state said. Financial assistance to Kiev, according to Blinken, represents “the best example of burden sharing” between NATO members.

It is akin to feeding a proxy with 9 mm bullets against the enemy which operates long-range artillery. But you cannot explain these realities to any high positioned bureaucrat in Washington across the board: economic, political, intel or military. This result of the US losing any remnants of cognitive faculties was long in the making. I want to stress again--some people in the US military understood that:

But the time has been lost and purely political class in the West needs only credentials. Real knowledge and serious skills--come on, who needs them in the West. Vladimir Putin is semi-joking when inviting NATO to a duel with Oreshnik today. Those few in NATO who have a serious intel and military-technological background know they are defenseless. I talk about this in my today's video.