THE FINAL $500 MILLION? Compared to some previous U.S. aid packages for Ukraine, $500 million is fairly modest. However, it was the best the Pentagon could manage to assemble from existing weapons stocks before the Biden administration ends in eleven days. 

It’s uncertain whether the incoming Trump administration will use the remaining several billion dollars in presidential drawdown authorities to continue pumping aid to Ukraine’s frontline troops, or for that matter, whether the U.S. will continue to lead the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, a coalition of some 50 donor nations that was the brainchild of outgoing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

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