Why the White House Is Considering Tomahawks for Ukraine

Less than two months after a cordial summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, the White House is considering sending Ukraine long-range Tomahawk missiles, a move that Putin called a "completely new stage of escalation" on Thursday. Sending the powerful weapons—which could reach Moscow—would mark another major political shift from an administration that until recently appeared skeptical of Ukraine's chances of winning the war against Russia. But sending them fits well into both Ukrainian and U.S. military strategies, according to experts, providing Kyiv with an extra boost to its so far successful strategy of targeting Russian oil while impacting…