Sir Richard Shirreff - Give Ukraine Tools it Needs to get the Job Done and Achieve Decisive Victory.

This week the choice open to the allies on the side of Ukraine became  clear and stark. Continue drip feeding weapons to Ukraine, and the  outcome may well be a stalemate that Russia would regard as a victory,  and which may ensure Putin retains his grip on the country. Or give  Ukraine the tools it needs to do the job to eject Russia from all its  territory. After months of speculation, prevarication, and some  dissention within the alliance the scales seem to have tipped decisively  in favour of the latter.    Sir Richard Shirreff is Co-founder and Managing Partner at Strategia  Worldwide. After graduating from Oxford, he served in the British Army  for 37 years commanding soldiers on operations or in combat at every  level from platoon to division and rising to the highest rank before  retiring from the Army as NATO’s Deputy Supreme Commander Europe. In  2016 his novel ‘2017: War with Russia’ was published in the UK, USA, and  Poland. It became a best seller and has been translated into eight  languages. He is an honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.