"While arming Ukraine may help Ukraine’s military kill more enemy soldiers . . . it is quite unlikely that doing so will succeed in changing the Kremlin’s policy in Ukraine."
With Secretary of State John Kerry joining incoming Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter as well as Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham in publicly supporting U.S. efforts to supply lethal arms to Ukraine’s government to aid it in its war against separatist rebels and Russian troops in eastern Ukraine, it may look like a bipartisan consensus is emerging behind the idea.