If this were the intention we'd be building drone factories, steel forges, munitions factories and hiring troops instead of buying overpriced F-35s for which american permission to operate can be withdrawn at will and which have proven to be too fragile to be allowed to be deployed in Ukraine.
The top priority still appears to be "please daddy".
shrug we were doing all of these at a small scale even before the war.
Articles that brag about delivering the equivalent few weeks' worth of Russian industrial production to the Ukrainian front lines every 6 months actually kind of underline the point.
It reminds me of the articles just before the summer 2023 offensive whose numbers spelled doom to anybody who had a limited understanding of military realities: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64391272
