Opinion by Max Boot: Instead of offering Ukraine just enough aid to avoid being defeated, we should be providing such overwhelming support that it can win the war (meaning, liberate most of the territory lost since Feb. 24).
A Ukrainian soldier peers through binoculars on the front line in Krasnohorivka, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, on June 3. History is littered with nations that launched wars in the expectation of a quick and painless victory, only to bog down in a conflict far more protracted and far less successful than anticipated. Think of Napoleon in Spain and Russia, Germany in World War I and II, North Korea in the Korean War, Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War, the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq.
But despite suffering heavy losses of men and material — the Pentagon has estimated that Russia has lost about