Against Russian assault, a battery for defense will help immensely, writes QuinHillyer.
Frankly, one wonders both why it took so long to agree to send the defense system and how many lives or injuries could have been avoided if the Patriot had been sent earlier. The way to win wars isn’t by gradual defensive escalation but by decisive use or repulsion of force. If the Patriot isn’t too big a provocation to Russia now, then it would not have been too big a provocation months ago, when President Joe Biden should have agreed to share it in the first place.
Despite carping from ignorant voices on both the Left and especially the Right, the U.S. has significant interests in seeing Ukraine be successful in expelling Russians from Ukrainian soil. Successful conquest invites more attempts at conquest, whereas successful defense deters future aggression. If Russia succeeds in bringing Ukraine to heel and then consolidates its gains, its imperial aims will grow, and its threats to other European nations will grow accordingly.
For reasons both practical and moral, then, Ukraine must succeed in sending Russia back within its own borders. It is Ukraine’s soldiers who are carrying this fight, and Ukraine’s population that is bravely enduring the hardships. But they also fight for an ideal of freedom, for the free exchange of goods and services in stable world markets, and for the cause of keeping a rapacious state from gaining power it would use for even more nefarious purposes.
Here's hoping the system becomes usable by Ukraine more quickly than expected — and, even better, here’s hoping that by the time it is ready to be used, the war will already somehow be over, with Russia’s murderous incursion conclusively rebuffed.
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