The time to arm Ukraine is right now: A crucial window for Kyiv -- and the world
By Gen. Wesley Clark
Ukraine needs heavy weapons and air support. Tanks, multiple-launch rockets, self-propelled artillery, air support — MiGs and Sukhoi aircraft — and mobile air defense. They need hundreds of thousands of 152mm artillery rounds. The US-supplied Javelins and Stingers are necessary but no longer sufficient.
Why? Because there is a window of opportunity now — for a week or two perhaps — in which Ukraine can counterattack in the north, south and east to expel Russian forces. This will require mobile armored forces and air power. And if this window is lost, the future is darker and more uncertain.
If Ukraine can prevail, it will secure its borders, expel Russia from all of Donbas and open the way for a negotiated end to the conflict. Presumably, this would also thwart Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plans for the Baltic states, Moldova and Georgia.
It would also undermine China’s growing belief that it might itself rearrange international boundaries through the use of force.
Following Russia’s setback, international criminal investigations into its actions will intensify. Putin himself will likely be indicted. The rules-based international system will be reinforced and the possibilities of broader, more destructive conflict reduced. All this opens the way for greater cooperation in dealing with climate change, disease and poverty, as well as providing an opening to strengthen US-China cooperation. . .
No more waffling
This is truly an inflection point in the war in Ukraine and therefore in the future of the international system.'>>>
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