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Anne Applebaum: hard to see how even most high-tech US aid can prevent establishment of Novorossiya http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...6de_story.html …

Easy:
winter uniforms
counter battery radars
ATMs
drones
jammers
MRAPs

Then the Minsk demarcation line can be actually defended.
Her article was starkly helpful, if only as a reminder here that:
The “civil war” that ensued is an artificial conflict, run by Russian security and enhanced by a sophisticated pan-European disinformation campaign. It will last as long as the Russians want it to last.
What is interesting is that the vast majority of residents in the Eastern Ukraine are fleeing to the Ukraine, not Russia. It would be strange if the areas seized did not have a civilian population if a ceasefire really happens.