Exactly. Now it's Putin's turn, according to the RAND Corporation, Atlantic Counsel, etc.

Remember we stocked the Mujahideen with Stingers and sent Bin Laden in there to manage. What will be the blowback this time?

What if the Ukrainians get pissed about being used as bear bait and those weapons start trickling back west? How about those refugees across Europe from all our Middle East and North African adventures getting their hands on RPG's and heavy machine guns?

The future is a continuation of the past, until it becomes a reaction to it.