Sen. Vance Is Half Right, but Ukraine Is Not the Problem Opinion

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Senator JD Vance's (R-OH) recent comments on continued support for Ukraine made a number of compelling points about the ability of U.S. and Western arms production to keep pace with our aggressive adversaries, notably Russia and China. But where we part company is the senator's insistence that this is a result of providing too much of our own resources to Ukraine. On the contrary, Ukraine has exposed alarming shortcomings in the U.S. national security apparatus, particularly within the defense industrial base that the United States has relied upon for every war and conflict over the past 100 years. While the...