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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The Russian reaction to that news should be really interesting. The American's know that they can't put their troops on the ground in the Ukraine, without causing a holy hell storm reaction from Putin.
I would think that he would react strongly to seeing Ukrainian troops cruising around in M1 tanks or flying F-18 Super Hornets, so arming them might not be a great move.
Nor can the American's afford to do nothing beyond useless diplomacy because no one will trust the American's again if they abandon the Ukraine after the disarmament treaty that was signed in I think 94
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Couldn't they just employ the same strategy Russia is using here? Oh... those stinger missiles? You can buy those on any street corner. In Afghanistan the US provided stinger missiles, loads of arms and funding under black budget programs. I don't see how it'd be too much of a problem to send in the Javelins, etc. + non heavy weapons. As long as there are no vacationing soldiers or Abrams, it'd be fine as there's still plausible deniability.
Russia in any case have already sent in troops and loads of tanks afterall.