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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3637290" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Trump didn't try to escalate the war in Ukraine giving them offensive weapons.  By design it's to limit further aggression.  Putin is in eastern Ukraine for the same reasons he went into South Ossetia.  To take territory that is primarily ethnic Russian, and to remind everyone in the region who is the dominant power.  It's pretty much a given that the Donbass and Crimea are gone from Ukraine.  But Putin risks major casualties if he goes further now that Ukraine has some teeth.  And that doesn't play well at home after Afghanistan.  I'll answer your question with a question..does Putin prefer Trump arming Ukraine, or does he prefer not arming them, as Obama refused to do?</p></blockquote><p></p>