Originally Posted by
melmothtw
Respectfully disagree (ish). These should have been earmarked for Ukraine. I get all the other points about keeping China out of LatAm, etc, but Ukraine should be the West's number one priority in all matters right now.
Respectfully disagree(ish) with the tunnel vision take on this. The US has been dealing in global security since about 1945. This is one aspect of that. (It's also not politically controversial...hmm, I had better not succumb to going off topic.)
The points a few others made about how this plays out vis a vis China make sense to me.