The case against providing lethal weapons to Ukraine has rested on a simple argument: If the United States provides arms to Kyiv, Moscow will escalate the war in eastern Ukraine. The Kremlin would up the ante with even more arms or intensify its military pressure on Ukraine. According to this logic, since escalation benefits no one except Russia, providing arms to Ukraine must be a bad idea.
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Soldiers from the Donbas battalion arrive to their touch base in a pig farm near Novoluhanske, Donetsk Oblast on Dec. 25.
