Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Mark Champion — Three Charts Explain Why Arming Ukraine Is a Bad Idea


Don't pick fights you don't intend to finish. Russia can out-escalate the US in the Ukraine, since it perceives it in its vital interest and the US doesn't not because it isn't. It's not Russia that is going to conclude that the cost is too high relative to the benefit, but the US will, and Europe is unwilling to support a wider war in its backyard.

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Three Charts Explain Why Arming Ukraine Is a Bad Idea
Mark Champion

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's insane that such considerations are even on the public policy table. I have zero confidence in the lunatics and fanatics who run our bipartisan foreign policy apparatus.