China is fence straddling to appear to be good
Tough cookies for Putin
Stoking conflict has always been with us. Iran/Iraq. Think letting Germany and Russia carve each other up before the Normandy invasion. There is something to be said for letting your enemy bleed as much as possible. It becomes more than a teachable moment. Russia our enemy? They are some pretty disgusting people when you take into account the nations paranoia. They simply need to pay a price and giving military aid is no different than the opportunism they took advantage of when they supplied our enemy in Viet Nam. The critics are afraid Putin will up the ante. Even more teachable as Japan learned.