There's nobody in this administration with thr vision to see the endgame and then call out all the progressive steps it takes to get there. In WW2, it was "destroy Germany." To do that you gotta get your army to Berlin. To do that you gotta move your army across Holland, Belgium but first France. To get to France you gotta invade France.
In this war it's been, "Let's try this weapons system," "OK, now we need this other weapons system." They're following the path where ever it goes.
Making it worse, they're dragging their feet on each incremental weapons system.
We wanna keep our good stuff back, "just in case we need it for ourselves." True. But sending that Tier 1 stuff is gonna get it used against the enemy we would face in that scenario. And make China take pause.
Instead, we're writing China's script (and to a degree Russia's script) for winning a war with us: Drag it out and make it brutal.