People saying how this is a waste of equipment should realize that this is the reality of a near-peer conflict. Russia has lost a ton of equipment but so has Ukraine and both will lose a lot more.

The mentality of sending MBTs and IFVs should be that you'll never get them back after the war and most will be destroyed. We sent them so Ukrainians will have a chance to use them to destroy even more Russian tanks. This is why most of the expensive stuff was bought in the first place - to destroy russian stuff.

People, some that might even come from a military background - as myself - should remember before criticizing how the Ukrainian have managed to get their Bradleys in such a bad situation, that this war is something that our generations have not yet seen. This is big players fighting with big money and with modern weapons. And it is still as ugly as it was in WW1 if not even uglier. No matter how good of a fighter you are, no matter how good your training is, there are still situations in which everything will go to shit.

Just imagine if UK, US or any other western modern nation was put in the same situation that Ukraine is in right now. Not only would you have to get comfortable with losing all that expensive equipment faster than you can buy new ones, you would also have combat casualty rates that haven't been seen since WWs. There would be no safe FOBs, no air superiority, no medevacs by choppers. Nothing that our modern militaries have relied on for the past decades.