1.) Russia will not respond with nuclear weapons. Their military and economy is decimated right now and that would be certain suicide

2.) Russians have been using foreign weapons of their own, this was bound to happen eventually- you can argue with the timing but this was long in the cards

3.) we are sending outdated and old weapons and military equipment to Ukraine. In the process we have severely damaged the Russian military (arguably our biggest foreign adversary) without putting a single American military life at risk.

4.) in working close with the Ukraine we are going to learn valuable information about the Russian military and how they operate.

5.) based on our military bylaws- even though the military supplies and weapons we are sending are out dated and we would never use the outdated weapons ourselves we still have to replenish the stockpile which creates American jobs.