monumentally dumb for us to involve ourselves. you arm them and then you own the resulting mess. we already own a couple of messes. let Kerry and Biden blow smoke at Vladi all day but to get involved against the Russian nation like that is
tempting fate. Vlad has no CP Presidium checking his moves.
the State Duma is his instrument. he has the football.
I heard earlier today that this got Turkey involved. Turkey had been promised by Russia somehow that such a move would involve it.
Now with the “ugly winds” Barack Obama seeing something unfair being done to a Moslem brother, is he going to brook it? That it might be on behalf of Turkey, and not Crimea or Ukraine, that he will get the USA involved? It would be consistent, if probably tragic.
What "mess," exactly, do you foresee, if we were to arm the Ukrainian military sufficiently that it could defeat--decisively and unequivocally--the Russian military?