Nick Schifrin:
That is the key question, Amna.
And the answer, U.S. and European officials tell me, depend on a few variables. Number one, how vulnerable are European countries willing to make themselves in order to send their own weapons, especially air defense, to Ukraine? Number two, how much money is Europe willing to spend, $10 billion to $20 billion, perhaps that much money?
And, three, how much weapons is the U.S. willing to spend? And that, of course, is a trade-off. The more weapons sent to Ukraine, perhaps the fewer weapons available in the Middle East and the Pacific. Meanwhile, as we saw, Russia is trying to overwhelm Ukraine with drones.
And, Amna, that is a challenge that Patriots, which are designed for missiles, that Patriots cannot really solve and, frankly, Ukraine has increasingly struggled to answer.
