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Of nato entering the conflict. what can they supply ukraine with? you are saying that there is kit there, so why haven't they handed it over? why not? well, i think the key thing is defensive. this has been a war of annexation by russia, an invasion of ukraine as we all know. and so nato has been very careful to calibrate their response as being defensive only, and that comes down to what are the weapons' capabilities? so if you are giving a country anti—tank missiles, and you are giving them hand—held anti—aircraft missiles, it is quite hard then to launch an offensive with those. not i...

And you are giving them hand—held anti—aircraft missiles, it is quite hard then to launch an offensive with those. not impossible, but they are generally seen as defensive weapons. the big escalatory risk with giving a country ground attack and fighters like that is that potentially, and we did see the ukrainian air force in the early days of the campaign actually attack inside russia, as far as i'm aware, so the danger is that that could actually be seen as more offensive by russia. it is not unprecedented that countries would supply other countries in a time of war by proxy with jets for...