Ukraine is, at last, getting some tanks. But consider how long it took for everybody to agree, and it’s going to what even longer for them to finally get delivered. How much more could Ukraine have accomplished if they had gotten the tanks earlier. But then, that seems to have been the story all along. We’re always giving Ukraine weapons three or four months (or longer) after we should have. We seem to be giving enough weapons to Ukraine so they can stop Russia from winning, but we never give them enough to actually get this war over with.
There are lots of reasons people give for not giving Ukraine more weapons (and capabilities). I’ll address two of them. The first is that Vladimir Putin might escalate to nuclear weapons. If that is the determining factor, then maybe we ought to stop giving any weapons to Ukraine, because otherwise we are just fighting to the last Ukrainian, without ever giving them a chance to win. Is that fair?
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