While the far more cost effective step would be to dismantle these outdated production lines and ship them into Ukraine, where they can be operated by cheap, skilled labor, with much diminished environmental and safety overhead, as part of a war economy.

Every modern war is a production war, you either outproduce your opponent, or you get overwhelmed. If Ukraine can't achieve self reliance and remains fully dependent on western trickle down, it cannot succeed long term.

Thank you for pointing out this fact