want to help. and they are being crushed by putin, that is true. how can we help? why don't we send more weapons in the middle of a word. doesn't sound like a bad idea. if you make that decision, you feel some obligation instead of the ramifications, like what effect this will actually happen. is it possible that doing this is well intentioned as it is, and it is, is it possible doing this would be counterproductive and hurt the people i'm hoping to help or prolong the fighting in ukraine at the expense of a vulnerable civilian population in ukraine? if i did this, could i inadvertently be doing to ukraine what the west inadvertently did to let say iraq, syria, libya and afghanistan? you wouldn't want that. you would hate to do something like that again because that would be cruel. you would want to make sure you were not doing that. but not a single person in washington, at least in public appears to be asking that question. no one is allowed to ask that