Unfortunately for Ukraine, it was a complete waste of money - because Russia is still going to win the war. Anyone looking at the "military balance" knew that was always going to be the case from day one, regardless of US/NATO support (other than supplying nukes.)
Iran is a more difficult proposition to call. Without massive US support, Israel does not have the logistics to carry out too many long-range attacks, certainly not enough to prevent Iran from raining missiles and drones down on Israel. Iran has more missiles and drones than Israel has aircraft. Although only perhaps a thousand of the missile arsenal have the range to reach Israel proper, Iran's short-range missiles will do massive damage to US assets in the region - possibly including the Saudi oil fields and certainly closing the Straits of Hormuz to civilian traffic. Despite US Navy claims that they can keep the Straits open, this simply isn't possible
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Unfortunately for Ukraine, it was a complete waste of money - because Russia is still going to win the war. Anyone looking at the "military balance" knew that was always going to be the case from day one, regardless of US/NATO support (other than supplying nukes.)
Iran is a more difficult proposition to call. Without massive US support, Israel does not have the logistics to carry out too many long-range attacks, certainly not enough to prevent Iran from raining missiles and drones down on Israel. Iran has more missiles and drones than Israel has aircraft. Although only perhaps a thousand of the missile arsenal have the range to reach Israel proper, Iran's short-range missiles will do massive damage to US assets in the region - possibly including the Saudi oil fields and certainly closing the Straits of Hormuz to civilian traffic. Despite US Navy claims that they can keep the Straits open, this simply isn't possible