Some thirty thousand of these weapons are currently in the hands of Ukrainian defenders (with some likely captured by Russian forces), though who exactly possesses them is murky. [...]
These weapons have proven essential to Ukraine’s fight for its freedom. In the wrong hands, however, they pose serious risks: MANPADS, for example, could just as easily be used against a civilian airliner, a nightmare scenario for many counterterrorism experts.
Given the myriad armed actors in Ukraine, keeping these weapons out of the wrong hands will prove a daunting challenge - one that the international community should start thinking about now.
It is no small task to keep the right weapons in the right hands for the right reasons, in large part because what is “right” is highly subjective.
And such determinations can change from one day to the next in highly fluid contexts like Ukraine, which are characterized by ambiguity and uncertainty.
But the difficulty of the task does not negate its necessity. If the international community fails to address the proliferation of weapons from Ukraine, those weapons might contribute to regional insecurity, as occurred in the aftermath of the Libyan intervention in 2011.
The flow of military equipment left unsecured following the fall of the Qaddafi regime subsequently played a critical role in providing key military capabilities to transnational opposition groups rebelling against governments in Mali, Niger, Chad, and elsewhere in the region.
The international community would do well to consider these issues now, learning the lessons of the past, in the hope that history will not repeat itself." - j.w.
...cytatem w żadnym razie nie za Agencją "TASS" a za "Modern War Institute" at West Point jeszcze tymczasem tylko po kolejnym kubku kawy drugiego dnia kolejnego weekendu...
