Vladimir Putin on Monday claimed that NATO’s increasing military support for Ukraine risks escalating the conflict, pushing Russia “to the red line” across which, he said, “we can no longer retreat.”
If the intent of Biden’s permission to use American long-range weapons against Russia was to help Ukraine, to their pain, the Ukrainians will likely discover the opposite turns out to be true.
The war is already lost, and nothing NATO or Kyiv can do now will prevent that outcome.
Continuing to send billions in eleventh-hour support to Ukraine, as Biden and others in Europe are doing, will serve only to deplete further our own arsenals of weapons and key ammunition categories (like interceptor missiles), and increase the cost of the eventual loss to the Ukrainians.
Author
Daniel
Davis
Senior Fellow & Military Expert
Events on Ukraine
