Weapons firms influence the Ukraine debate
Of course, and in other news, Microsoft thinks Microsoft software is the best solution to any problem.<p>What worries me more though is the <i>lack</i> of weapons. Here&#x27;s why:<p>It&#x27;s clear Russia isn&#x27;t going to stop. Putin would find it extremely embarrassing and politically harmful to just stop without getting anything out of it. All those sanctions, all that money, all those lives lost would be all for nothing.<p>It&#x27;s equally clear Ukraine isn&#x27;t going to stop. They see it (in my opinion very correctly) as a very existential fight to preserve their country and culture. Surrendering a good chunk of your country to an enemy that&#x27;s been killing your people for a year is also politically nonviable and maybe even impossible.<p>So obviously this is only ending when one side becomes unwilling or unable to keep fighting.<p>If giving weapons to Ukraine is a good thing at all then the most moral option to me is giving Ukraine the means to achieve a swift, decisive win. Keeping things even has no legitimate purpose to it, it only gets more people killed on both sides.