Daniel DePetris responds to a new call from hawkish senators to send arms to Ukraine:
It merely explains why the Russian government acted the way it did, and why further U.S. military assistance to the Ukrainian security forces would be ill-advised. In fact, one could make a convincing case that providing hundreds of millions of dollars in security assistance to the Ukrainian government wouldn’t help the situation at all, and might lead Kiev to delude itself into thinking that Washington will come to its immediate military aid in order to stabilize the battlefield.
The debate over arming Ukraine hasn’t changed much since …read more
Source: The American Conservative
