Quick, send Ukraine more guns!

In short, the resistance is on. And whether or not Kyiv soon falls to Russia’s massive superiority in firepower, mobility, missile and air strikes, and other metrics of military effectiveness, the resistance is almost certain to persist.

But more resistance will require more weapons.

Biden and other leaders could send more firepower without crossing the (sensible) red line that stops them short of putting U.S. or NATO troops on Ukrainian territory. They could ship planeloads of these weapons to Poland, where caravans of trucks could transport them right up to (or perhaps a little bit past) the Ukrainian border, where Ukrainian commanders or organizers could go pick them up. The Poles, who detest Russia, would cooperate.

This would not be a sentimental gesture, like something out of Casablanca or the noble but doomed crusade to aid the anti-fascists in the Spanish Civil War. It would be a strategic, even necessary act.