My thinking on US support for Ukraine has evolved. Not their motivations, I still believe they're helping Ukraine because they believe in supporting sovereign democracy and defeating evil. Yes there are also benefits to it like diminishing Russian power and signaling to China that it will not back down.
My thinking on why the slow drip of weapons has changed. It's not fear of escalation. It's great of an outright Russian loss. It's a fear of Putin being replaced with someone worse. They want Russia defeated but not Putin, because then you could have Prigozhin type in charge of the military and nukes
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