I’ll keep it short and simple: one thing that I was discussing with my fiance, about the hostilities in Ukraine, is that, apparently, Western nations are refraining from sending more modern weapons to help Kiev’s regime precisely because they’re aware the Russians would capture them and, soon enough, there’d be both counter-measures for those plus suspiciously similar designs appearing in Russia and, mayhaps, China.
Or would that be too difficult to happen? What are your thoughts?
Russia and China already have most of, if not all of, the complex technology they’d be capturing from western-backed combatants. There’s a whole thing about the two powers stealing the US’s jet fighter technology, but the reality is they develop a lot of their own stuff, and some of that stuff is objectively better than what the Americans have. Ukraine was given a bunch of high tech equipment before the invasion, and they either failed to use it effectively, or didn’t use it at all.
“If we give them [insert thing that costs more than any American will see in their entire life] it’ll just get captured by the stupid, no good, technologically lacking enemy” is a very convenient out for not wanting to contribute expensive equipment to a failing war.