[matips]

>But the headline number is somewhat irrelevant. 300m sent to Finland is "gone forever".

You can make a deal that US buy icebreaker for 300M from Finland and Finns buy weapons from US for 300M. They need it because of Russia and you boosts US economy in other areas.

[bruce511]

And foreign deals are often set up this way.... if this can be arranged. It's seldom that straightforward though.