“The best way to do that is to provide the Ukrainians with the weapons they need to defend themselves from the Russian invasion and missile attacks”
No. Actually the best way is for Ukraine to have properly prepared themselves to defend against the Russians. They failed to do that because they cared more about corruption than Ukraine.
So now, instead of avoiding an invasion, they deploy more corruption to coerce the Bidens and a majority of US Congressmen through direct bribery to give Ukraine weapons and money that they can repurpose for cash.
The Ukrainian people are victims first and most by their corrupt government. The Russians, as bad as their invasion is, are the inevitable result of Ukrainian government, Ukrainian oligarchs and officials who knew the Russians would invade if they had any reason to.
That NATO is willing to provide weapons is secondary to any concern for Ukraine.
They will eventually be cut off, and all of Ukraine will fall.
It didn’t have to be this way.
Fail.
Russia has been claiming for eight years that it saw the arming and training of Ukraine as a provocation. But it invaded Ukraine before all that!
Before Ukraine had armed itself and at a time when it couldn’t and wouldn’t fight Russia, Russia walked into Crimea and sent little green men into the Donbas.
So Ukraine invoked the Budapest Memorandum and asked the signatories to assist. We did, so Russia gave NATO an ultimatum in December. Pull everything out of Ukraine and the Baltic and anywhere else east of Germany that Putin had eyes on... Or Russia would invade Ukraine.
For the benefit of folks who can’t add two and two and understand that the answer is 4...
When Ukraine couldn’t defend itself, and its president sold out to Putin, Russia invaded Ukraine.
Because the Budapest Memorandum was upheld by its signatories, USA and UK, Russia threatens Europe and NATO... And readied itself to invade Ukraine.
Because Ukraine now defends itself, Russia keeps invading Ukraine.
There never was a scenario where Russia wasn’t going to invade Ukraine.
It’ll keep invading Ukraine until Putin, Prigozhin, Patrushev, Lavrov, Kadyrov, Pushilin, Medvedev, and the Duma headbangers on Rossiya1, experience such a crushing defeat that the Russian Federation decides it’s time to decorate the Moscow lamp posts with these irredeemably deranged warmongering sickos. Save Russia, by turning the invasion fetishists into Vatnik piñatas.