Four years ago, on December 16, 2019, Gen. Wesley Clark (U.S. Army, ret.), former NATO supreme allied commander, Europe, was interviewed by Diane Francis of The Atlantic Council about the situation in Ukraine and its broader impact.
Gen. Clark stated: “We should have given defensive lethal weapons to Ukraine. If we’d given them defensive weapons, many lives could have been saved. There are major human consequences here.”
Echoing Gen. Clark’s statements, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power, who was acting chair of the U.N. Security Council, bluntly stated on December 11, 2015, “Russia continues to arm, train, support and fight alongside separatists in eastern Ukraine.”