
Niall Ferguson
WSJ Opinion: Free Expression
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I Think the Great Mistake Was Not to Arm Ukraine Sufficiently That It Could Defend Itself
I think the great mistake was not to arm ukraine sufficiently that it could defend itself. I wonder if it's now too late. There is no amount of heroism, no many, no number of volunteers with calasian cops that can really stand a brutal russian bombardment. It is remarkable that olaf scholtz, the german chancellor, has junked decades of ostpolitique and essentially doubled the defense budget. But i deeply fear it's too late,. We cannot sufficiently swiftly arm the eucranians to prevent their being crushed by the kind of brutal russia tactics we've seen in syria for example. This is a frightful prospect, but one must be
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