According to the authors of the article, the weapons transferred by the United States to Kyiv have already begun to spread to other countries.
Cohen and Allen drew a parallel between weapon leakage and grilling meat: most of the meat comes back, but some of the fat drips down.
“In this case, the US should hope that the fat does not start a much larger fire,” the authors stressed.
Earlier, Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said at a meeting of the Security Council that at the moment there has been an increase in the smuggling of weapons supplied by Western countries to Ukraine to third countries.
UN Under-Secretary-General Izumi Nakamitsu, in turn, called on countries that supply weapons to Ukraine to monitor the situation so that weapons do not fall into third parties.
In October, Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with the heads of the special services of the CIS countries, warned of the danger of the black market for weapons operating in Ukraine.