“If America starts to blink, other nations might as well,” one British member of Parliament said of the possibility of the U.S. cutting aid to Ukraine.
Iraq War veteran Carl Larson spent many tough weeks in the front-line trenches of northeast Ukraine. Since his return home, he has been raising money to buy generators and other supplies for the International Legion of Defense of Ukraine troops.
Russian and Ukrainian troops appeared Thursday to be girding for a major battle over the strategic southern industrial port city of Kherson, in a region that Russian President Vladimir Putin has illegally annexed and subjected to martial law.
When a nation is at war, even if it claims it is not, the reverberations back home the place where the conflict was first conceived can be far-reaching.
Air defense can mitigate the threat from missiles, drones and warplanes. But in Ukraine’s context, these weapons would be more useful on paper than in reality.