President Barack Obama holds a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk of Ukraine in the Oval Office, March 12, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Obama Faces Decision On Military Aid For Ukraine -- USA Today
Other analysts warn dramatically increasing military aid to Ukraine risks a rapid Russian escalation that the USA could not match.
Russian President Vladimir Putin — who has at least 10,000 troops on Ukraine's border, according to NATO — "can escalate more with less cost" than the USA can, says Bruce Jones, director of the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution in Washington. That "could create a much more intensive war with high costs for Ukraine."
Instead, Obama has taken a measured approach that includes providing Ukraine with U.S. intelligence support, military training and advice while gradually imposing sanctions that hurt the Russian economy without causing it to collapse, Jones said.
However, Jones says the president hasn't done a good job of explaining that approach to the American public and the international community.
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My Comment: I think I have mentioned more than once that the civil war in eastern Ukraine is just one big black hole for money and resources as well as being a meat grinder for soldiers to die for. Sending U.S. military aid will not change the situation on the ground .... and in fact it will make it worse.
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