NATO strikes balance between protecting Ukraine – and itself
by Anna Mulrine Grobe
Dec 02, 2022
3 minutes
Pentagon officials laud Ukrainian soldiers for “not asking anyone to fight for them,” as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin often points out. “All Ukraine is asking for is the means to fight – and we’re determined to provide that means.”
That equals weapons and ammunition – lots of it – and it’s no small feat to keep it coming. American military stockpiles are now “dangerously depleted,” warned a July report from the Stimson Center, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C.
But senior U.S. officials have answered, in effect,
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