On March 17, Forward Defense senior fellow and acting director of Rafik Hariri Middle East Programs Tom Warrick was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article titled “Turkey’s Russian missiles could defend Ukraine,” which references Warrick’s recent article on “lend-lease” options for loaning S-300 SAMs to Ukraine.
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