Sounds like a silly quote, when you have an invasion by a superpower, to say that aiding a defense is putting fuel on a fire.
Seems like that fire is fueled from Russia.
I’m all for degrading Putin’s army by proxy. All he has to do is withdraw to stop that.
Exactly. Russia/Putin can stop this war if they want to.
In the meantime arm the Ukrainians and cause the Russians to use up weapons and men who can’t be replaced, thereby making Russia less of a threat to NATO and the USA.
Does that include withdrawing from Crimea, which was annexed in 2014 and held a plebiscite that overwhelming favored rejoining Russia?
The separatist Eastern provinces have been fighting for over 8 years against the central government, which has had no control over these provinces since 2014. Ukraine signed the Minsk Agreement in 2015 that promised to give these provinces more autonomy. The Ukraine never implemented the agreements. What happens to these provinces going forward?
“Sounds like a silly quote, when you have an invasion by a superpower, to say that aiding a defense is putting fuel on a fire. Seems like that fire is fueled from Russia. I’m all for degrading Putin’s army by proxy. All he has to do is withdraw to stop that.”
I agree. Putin started this sh!t, and it can end tomorrow if he showed some honor and called the whole thing off and withdrew his forces. But Putin is not an honorable man.
“Sounds like a silly quote, when you have an invasion by a superpower”
Russia is not a superpower in conventional weapons. We are.