Putting that nightmarish possibility aside, there's another question that comes to mind (mine, anyway): Does arming Ukraine really make Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and their cohorts "defenders of democracy"?
As someone who has followed Washington's arms production and its global weapons sales for decades now, my answer would be: far from it. At best, those firms are opportunists, selling their wares wherever they're allowed to, regardless of whether their products will be used to push back a Russian invasion of Ukraine or fuel the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe of this century in Yemen.
