Reuters
National Interest: Dressed to Kill: Arming Ukraine Could Put It on a Path Towards War
Even after Russian military forces withdrawal, deep-seated resentments will linger in Donbas. The lethal aid policy’s greatest flaw is that it completely fails to address these resentments, and in doing so, artificially simplifies the conflict to a proxy war with Russia.
In 2017, the United States began supplying Javelin missile launchers and sniper systems to Ukraine. This equipment, in addition to nonlethal aid (since 2014), is intended to help fight off Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas region.
Yet the aid policy has a number of fundamental shortcomings: its effectiveness at the tactical level is limited; it will likely encourage, not deter, Russia’s engagement in the conflict; and it fails to address the root causes of the Donetsk and Luhansk (collectively—Donbas) rebellions.
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WNU Editor: Fortunately there is a new Ukrainian President who appears to be sincere in putting an end to the war. But Russian - Ukrainians who dominate eastern Ukraine now have deep-seated resentments on what has happened in the past five years, and shipping mass quantities of weapons to the Ukraine military are not going to help.
2 comments:
Obama had the right idea when he shipped non-lethal aid (blankets) to Ukraine. He did not have the courage of his convictions.
Obama should have shipped wampum with the blankets.
"shipping mass quantities of weapons to the Ukraine military are not going to help"
Help with peace, no for sure, but it does help keep the war pot brewing and that is the supreme objective of a country that is slave to its WIC.
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