Since the beginning of the war with Russia on 24 January, 2022, to 31 May, 2023, the US has sent Ukraine $46.56 billion in military aid. It has shipped some of its most powerful weapons ranging from surface-to-air NASAMS missiles and Phoenix Ghost drones to Javelin missiles and C-4 explosives. Other NATO countries have showered Volodymyr Zelenskyy with $57.27 billion worth of lethal largesse as well. That is straightaway more than $100 billion in military aid, or one-and-a-half times India’s annual defence budget. All that well-meaning weaponising of Ukraine is predicated on the warm, fuzzy hope that Ukraine will cage...