Yeah let’s speculate for a moment let’s say that Putin wins in Ukraine and comes into possession of all these American Stinger missiles. Then let’s say Putin sends gorilla fighters up across the southern border armed with American Stinger missiles. The government won’t be able to do their big CSI thing and that’s about as bad as optics as you can get.
Putin would be stupid not to do it. There is nothing to lose in terms of sanctions anymore. You better hope that these stories are propaganda.