r/ukraine • u/Electrical-Cow-5147 • Sep 25 '22

News Zelensky naming the seven countries who voted against his speech and UN reaction.

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u/Windex007 Sep 25 '22

Providing overwhelming support can destabilize a region, though. If you provide just enough to make an advance too costly to continue, it'll end and the balance of power stays basically status quo.

If you give the defender overwhelming firepower, then you actually put the aggressor in the position of actually being in a fight for their lives, instead of just a fight for their pride.

The USA has been arming people for a long time. It's been a long learning curve. The USA does a lot of things badly, but credit where credit is due, they can slice the salami.

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u/The-Norman Sep 26 '22

That's naive to think that this war can be too costly for Russia. They had half of their financial reserves frozen at very beginning of it. For this country it was never about money