Arming Ukraine With Lethal Weapons Has Risks

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Paul Floyd: Hi. I’m Paul Floyd, a military analyst here at Stratfor, and I’m joined by Sim Tack, another military analyst here at Stratfor. Today we’re going to discuss a lot of the noise that we’ve been hearing about both the U.S. and or NATO arming the Ukrainian military to do duel with conflict that’s happening in their country. So Sim, what has kind of started all of this conversation about arming Ukrainian military all of a sudden?

Sim Tack: So recently we’ve seen several statements coming out of NATO officials, around U.S. Congress. There’s also been an Atlantic Council report, all kind of feeding into the narrative of the potential to deploy more effective weapons to Ukraine to support the Ukrainian military.