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U.S. officials confirmed to CBS News that the Biden administration had given permission to several NATO allies to send emergency shipments of U.S.-made weapons — including anti-tank missiles — to Ukraine to reinforce the country's defenses. State Department sources said allies including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the U.K. were cleared to make "Third Party Transfers" of U.S.-made and supplied equipment to Ukraine, which one official described as part of a race "to get as much gear to the Ukrainians as quickly as possible."

In 2014 West seems to be in the same place {like in 1939]. Its experts do not understand the transformation of Russia after the Cold War. They are oblivious to the fact that the Russian regime did not change at all. Although the Politburo may have gone and the communist ideology is not required anymore, the institutions and nomenklatura remained intact. What is more important, the strategic goal of current Kremlin to defeat West, in war or without it, differs little from the goal of Soviet communist to rule over the world.