Arms to Ukraine

     So one of the suggestions to help the Ukrainians that has been suggested for the United States, and that the administration apparently does not want to do out of fear that it will "provoke" Putin (which I think is ridiculous, considering it should be viewed in terms of how are Putin's actions provoking the United States), is to send arms to Ukraine. This would then factor into Putin's calculations on whether to invade the rest of Ukraine.

     Russia's army is not the most elite in the world and thus armed citizens may well be able to inflict a lot more harm to Russia's military than they would be able to conduct to a military such as the United States's for example, and even then, I am sure if the U.S. was considering invading Ukraine, the ability of the Ukrainians to harm our soldiers would be taken into consideration. This could cause Putin to hesitate for a few reasons:

1) Embarrassment. Putin doesn't want to be made to look like an idiot.

2) Showing other countries that you don't need a super elite military to give the Russian military hell if they try invading you.

3) If Putin wants to push beyond Ukraine, this will mean having supply lines running through Ukraine. Armed Ukrainians could possibly severely disrupt those supply lines, causing all manner of havoc for the Russian military if trying to advance beyond Ukraine.

I do hope that if/when Putin decides to invade the rest of Ukraine, the Ukrainians give the Russians utter hell for it. But unfortunately I think they will be rather hard-pressed to do so as they lack the arms they would need.