PUTIN ‘CAN’T JUST WAIT EVERYBODY OUT’: The announcement of almost $3 billion in future aid for Ukraine’s military will have no immediate impact on the war in Ukraine, but that’s not the point. Delivery of the various weapons systems in the package won’t begin to arrive for months, and deliveries will stretch out over several years.

The point is to convince Russia that U.S. support for Ukraine is not going away. “Vladimir Putin seems to believe that Russia can win the long game — outlasting the Ukrainians in their will to fight and the international community’s will to continue to support Ukraine,” said Colin Kahl, undersecretary of defense for policy, at a Pentagon briefing. “This … package is a tangible demonstration that this is yet another Russian miscalculation.”