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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.
