On Ukraine’s frontlines, U.S.-supplied equipment is falling apart
Ms Farkas sticks to her guns.---
When asked about the administration’s goals, a spokesperson for the National Security Council declined to comment on the record. The current aid policy towards Ukraine is representative of the Obama administration’s desire to “do enough militarily to ensure the Ukrainians can defend their territory,” said Evelyn N. Farkas, the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia. But she said that more could be done to deter future attacks.
“Right now, considering the stakes, our resources are out of whack,” Farkas said.
She added that a diplomatic solution to the crisis can be reached through stronger engagement—namely in the form of sending weapons to Ukraine.
The White House, though, has resisted sending lethal aid with a belief that sending the weapons to Ukrainian troops would only escalate the conflict.
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Yes....Farkas seems to still be the "go to person" for news reports on Ukraine even though she has resigned her former position.
About the article: there's something that could almost strike one as sick comedy about our sending our used and out-of-date heavy equipment to Ukraine. It wasn't that long ago that we were trying to find something to do with our used military equipment (no longer needed) in Afghanistan as we were supposedly withdrawing troops from there. I remember posts here in "FA" about the logistics and costs of getting them out of the country, where to store them, and how much would be scrapped.
I guess they solved the problem with the Ukraine situation. 
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In addition to the dated vehicles already sent, another 100 Humvees of similar vintage have been authorized to be offered for shipment to Ukraine as part of the military’s standard program for transferring extra equipment “as is” to foreign countries.
The program sends “the stuff that’s sitting around somewhere that no service can use,” said an official at the Pentagon who spoke on condition of anonymity to speak frankly about the equipment. “In some cases Humvees might be provided … for spare parts. They’re not good enough to drive, but you can tear them apart and cannibalize [them].”
In the case of the Humvees in Ukraine, Lt. Col. Andrei, the operations chief of the unit that received the vehicles, said they were supposed to be sent in working order — not stripped for parts.The cost to purchase a Humvee tire in Ukraine is roughly $1,000, so instead the unit bought a cheap used SUV for a little more than what it would take to replace two Humvee tires.
“Why would I pay to keep replacing tires when I could just buy a car?” asked Andrei, who requested his last name be withheld to protect his family living in Russian-occupied territory.
U.S. officials attributed the presence of rundown U.S. defense equipment on Ukraine’s front lines to the need to get equipment to Ukraine quickly at the start of the war.
