When it comes down to it, this is a hell of a deal for the US. We spend a tiny fraction of our military budget to de-fang Putin and don’t have to fire a single shot ourselves.

Better than defanging is real world testing.

What worked as expected, what didn’t, how we can make it better etc.

What will happen to the US defense budget now that we know it’s unnecessary?

That was rhetorical by the way, I know it’s going to increase.

Not sure about “unnecessary.” 5% works for Ukraine but also it has a much smaller land mass. You can’t use that 5% to protect the entirety of the US’ borders along with every other place we are stationed along with the required ongoing maintenance

I’m not saying the budget isn’t ridiculously high, but also saying it’s unnecessary as a whole is just incorrect

Yep, we have to defend our super long boarders with those dangerous aggressive nations called Canada & Mexico.