Commentary
The Biden administration’s decision to provide M1 Abrams main battle tanks to Ukraine follows reports that U.S. support for Ukraine in its war with Russia could hinder America’s ability to fight a war with communist China.
Since 2014, the United States has committed to sending Ukraine over $27 billion in military equipment and supplies. A new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies notes the profound nature of this problem. Even before the Ukraine war, the United States faced the diminishment of the U.S. arsenal and the inability of the industrial base to rapidly replenish U.S. conventional arms and munitions, to say nothing of major systems like ships and aircraft. Thus, the United States was already in peril. The Ukraine war has exacerbated this….