Critics of aid to Ukraine have often focused on Ukraine’s corruption. Not without reason. After the Cold War, Ukraine was notorious for shipping out old Soviet arms to fuel conflict around the globe. And while that kind of gross misdirection remains a concern — the U.S. inspector general found American officials had not properly tracked $1 billion in weapons and equipment that went to Ukraine — a deeper concern is that our affinities for Ukraine cause us to become more like it.
And so it comes to pass.
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