Yes, Ukraine urgently needs weapons. But what if supplying them backfires catastrophically? | Rajan Menon

Western training and weaponry have unquestionably helped Ukraine. Yet the risks of pouring more arms into Ukraine should be considered carefully

The United States and some of its Nato allies – Britain, Poland and the Baltic trio – have been the most vigorous in insisting that Ukraine must, for moral and strategic reasons, receive the weapons it needs to fight Russian aggression.

The moral case, strengthened by Ukrainians’ valiant resistance and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s Churchillian wartime leadership, is that Ukraine is the victim, Russia the aggressor.

Rajan Menon is the director of the Grand Strategy Program at Defense Priorities and senior research fellow at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University

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