Brian Milakovsky
Security, Eurasia
Putin could regard U.S. arms transfers as a symbolic test of who dictates conditions in the Donbass warzone.
In 2015, after spending several months in the frontline zone I wrote that Ukraine desperately needs a “lousy peace” and not an arms race. Two years and several thousand deaths later, the idea of supplying Ukraine with U.S. arms has resurfaced.
As a humanitarian worker whose greatest desire is to see the intolerable misery of Ukrainian civilians come to an end, I grapple with these questions: Would American arms increase the price of Russian aggression, causing Moscow to scale back its …read more
Source: The National Interest
