An excellent thread and article from ISW, @TheStudyofWar, analyzing Russia's claim that sending air defense missiles to Ukraine represents an "escalation"
RT @TheStudyofWar: The Kremlin is framing the US transfer of Patriot air defense systems and trainers to #Ukraine as an escalation in US-Russia relations, despite the fact that the transfer is if anything less escalatory than previous Western military shipments to Ukraine...
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-december-28

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