Or maybe, you've missed recent developments?
https://twitter.com/kimdotcom/status/1505946734345994241
https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-war-europe-uk...
This is a very weird source, of course US defence manufactures stocks go up when the US buys a lot weapons for other countries, its a huge investment in the company and any publicly traded company would see a stock movement with that kind of investment.
Ammo is coming from everywhere, either stock piles or other countries when appropriate.
And to the Ukrainians this is altruistic, the Americans are handing over advanced weapons for free to help fight off an invading army. It doesn’t get much more altruistic than that.
They are also given training including maintenance training on the weapon systems they are using. It's one of the reasons they haven't been given planes or their heavier systems (such as tanks).
> Nothing is for free - and that is the point, it feeds the US war machine.
It's free for the Ukrainians they are literally not paying, the Americans are getting great PR, and also free battle testing against real Russian targets.
Additionally the Americans are getting to heavily deplete the Russian army without even having to use any of their own soldiers.
It's a heaps good deal.