There seems to be an interesting discussion going on inside the US with a lot of former this or that about WHY one should not arm the Ukraine with the following as a core example of that debate.
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-fr...vuQXA3.twitter
The author argues that providing arms will only escalate the problem and why is the US even getting involved as it is not a US problem.
What I find extremely interesting is often those that support no weapons seem to forget that currently Putin as escalated twice--Aug and now and has raised the number of Russian troops inside the Ukraine from 6K to now well over 14K.
AND over 20 new Russian weapons systems never seen outside of Russia are now sitting inside the Ukraine AND that is not "escalation"?
These authors also tend to overlook the new Russian UW strategy, never talk about "political warfare" and certainly never mention what would happen in say Estonia or Latvia or Lithuania if the same "separatist" problem occurs--does the US then pull the Article 5 trigger---what pull the trigger over a bunch of Russian speakers demanding more federation and more language protections?
Wonder what their views on triggering Article 5 would be--as they never seem to answer that question?
Notice the author never seems to get around to saying what should be actually done now that diplomacy and talking have not achieved anything.
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Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
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