Damn maybe they shouldn’t have let the USA dictate the terms of diplomacy in 2022 and sued for peace then. The only deal worse than being America’s enemy is being America’s “Friend.”

As Ukraine continues to battle against Russia’s ammunition production superiority, the country has been left exposed to the ruthless vagaries of the international weapons market. In several cases Kyiv paid out large amounts in advance to little-known companies for materiel that to this day has never arrived. In other cases officials say that weapons sold at vastly inflated prices as global demand soared — the arms industry equivalent of surge pricing — arrived in an unusable condition.