American sniper in Ukraine says his unit prefers Soviet-era rifles because bullets are easier to...

Good reasoning

They are the most cost efficient and kill effective combatants.
Rich

Both the amount and kinds of support provided to Ukraine are going to continue to be hot issues, not just in the US congress but other countries as well.

On several occasions I have already mentioned that I support sending aid to Ukraine because I am happier seeing Ukrainian soldiers fighting the Russians rather than American soldiers fighting Russia.

On the other hand, I am also happier with Ukrainian units needing to ration their artillery ammo fighting Russia than I would be with US units having to ration their artillery ammo fighting Russia, or more likely China.

I don't know the exact extent to which we have depleted stocks of ammunition by supporting Ukraine, but I do know that we have been depleting our stockpiles of exactly the ammunition we would need in a land war on any of the likely fronts. Neither the US, nor any of our allies, are operating on a wartime economy right now, so Ukraine is expending ammunition at a rate that is faster than we are producing replacement stock. I seriously doubt that the modern day US is even capable of shifting to a wartime economy and producing military supplies at anything close to the rates we sustained 80 years ago.

The US military has not battled a peer or near-peer adversary in over 70 years, and we spent most of the last three decades convinced that we never would face a peer or near-peer battlefield again.

I don't expect -- or want -- to know details about the amount of ammunition we have stockpiled, but I do expect that the people making decisions about those stockpiles to have those details and to take our own potential needs into serious consideration.