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... equipment to refocus US policy in Ukraine.

Belgium just sent all their F-14s, they must have just sent in their POs for F-35s. Like Country Joe once sang, "plenty of good money to be made, supplying the army with the tools of the trade.

To be clear: I have no problem whatsoever supplying the Ukraine with everything they want short of nukes, but I have serious doubts about this administration motives and commitments. Has eLoon Musk made Starlink available to Ukraine again, yet?

Yep, definitely watch his motives. He might be doing the right thing, but never enough of it and never for the right reasons.
My theory: He's hedging his bets on what now looks like a Russia loss, and vying to take major credit for any Ukraine-EU victory over his Russia friend.

He wants to co-opt the credit as leverage
for the peace prize.

The only country still flying the F-14 Tomcat is Iran, the only other country then the US to get them back in the '70's.
The United States retired the F-14 Tomcat from active service in 2006.

Will Ukraine send TACO a thank you note? He acts like it's comes from his pocket.

To the American defense contractors. $179 million for 5 government and 15 contractors. I’m sure they are paying each contractor $250k or more to be there. The company execs pocket a lot of profit on those kind of deals.

Reminds me of the Kellogg Brown and Root days in Iraq. Mony flowing over contractors everyhere. So much so the regular Army guys couldn’t wait to get out and cone back as a contractor making three or four times as much.