It’s absurd that this could even happen. That after 20 months of war the West was unable to:
1. Introduce effective sanctions, without purchases of “diluted oil” and “+1400% of exports to Kazakhstan.” Not to mention transfer of frozen funds.
2. Help Ukraine with at least 5% of the weapons available to the NATO: 20 000 aviation (plus tens of thousands paramilitary), 12 400 tanks ([https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293174/nato-russia-military-comparison/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293174/nato-russia-military-comparison/)), 10 000 artillery, 50 000 armored vehicles, 900 000 light-armored transport, 3 300 Rocket Launchers, 2 200 military vessels, ~15 000 high range and >50 000 middle range missiles, over 500 000 glide bombs. And so on. When only some cheap trainer aviation with 25,000/500,000 of JDAM (24-75km; 220-970kg) and AGM-154 (22-130km; 500kg) glide bombs potentially could end the war.
3. Even provide weapons on time, not start supplying offensive weapons after a year of war, behind two big waves of Russian mobilization and creation of 3-level defense lines.
4. Now, a little more than a year after announcement of Lend-Lease (simple weapon transfer mechanism completely independent from politics), Ukraine must think about likelihood of continuation of USA arm assistance. The essence of which is already expressed by the word “stabilization”, or words “slow weakening of Russia” (which only gave Russia 2 years for adaptation).
Did the West have stopped thinking about Trust Capital altogether?
If a similar situation is possible with country that:
1. European democracy.
2. Gave up third nuclear arsenal for security guarantees of International Law. And by deception – [https://nationalinterest.org/feature/deceit-dread-and-disbelief-story-how-ukraine-lost-its-nuclear-arsenal-207076](https://nationalinterest.org/feature/deceit-dread-and-disbelief-story-how-ukraine-lost-its-nuclear-arsenal-207076)
3. Serial victim of aggression from totalitarian state, that de-facto use WMD-blackmail for unpunished WMD-imperialism. Proving that WMD-might make right. Sponsoring destruction of International Law and subsequent WMD-proliferation.
4. A victim of verified ethnocide (in regions where 75% of the population identified Ukrainian language as their native language, it is prohibited, under “threat” of execution, to speak not by Russian language).
5. Is fighting against main (China – rational agent, Russia – irrational agent) military and second political rival of the West, a complete ideological antagonist that want to return 19th century norms and morals.
Then what will happen to the others if a similar situation occur again, with them?
What fractions of a percent of Western values will be allocated to help them?
How many Christian’s compassion, forgiveness and mutual assistance? How many of Magna Carta’s Rule of Law? How many of the Renaissance’s Rational Humanism? How many the French Revolution’s “Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite”? How many Commandments of Founding Fathers about fight against clerical despotism?
Ukraine was a state with big problems that was struggling with internal conflict between pro-russians and pro-ukrainians.
It’s army was a mess.
The corruption was high.
And then they got invaded by Russia.
Do not call out others for not doing more to help Ukraine win this awful war when it is still a broken country.
The help sent, the help to Ukrainians who fled as war refugees is not insignificant. And it is still being provided.
It is up to Ukraine to start doing something significant.
The new US house speaker is a nutjob who wants to support Israel for biblical prophecy reasons but is against aid to Ukraine because he sympathises with Putin’s fascism
Everyone should probably take this article with at least a grain of salt knowing this author.
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It’s absurd that this could even happen. That after 20 months of war the West was unable to:
1. Introduce effective sanctions, without purchases of “diluted oil” and “+1400% of exports to Kazakhstan.” Not to mention transfer of frozen funds.
2. Help Ukraine with at least 5% of the weapons available to the NATO: 20 000 aviation (plus tens of thousands paramilitary), 12 400 tanks ([https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293174/nato-russia-military-comparison/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293174/nato-russia-military-comparison/)), 10 000 artillery, 50 000 armored vehicles, 900 000 light-armored transport, 3 300 Rocket Launchers, 2 200 military vessels, ~15 000 high range and >50 000 middle range missiles, over 500 000 glide bombs. And so on. When only some cheap trainer aviation with 25,000/500,000 of JDAM (24-75km; 220-970kg) and AGM-154 (22-130km; 500kg) glide bombs potentially could end the war.
3. Even provide weapons on time, not start supplying offensive weapons after a year of war, behind two big waves of Russian mobilization and creation of 3-level defense lines.
4. Now, a little more than a year after announcement of Lend-Lease (simple weapon transfer mechanism completely independent from politics), Ukraine must think about likelihood of continuation of USA arm assistance. The essence of which is already expressed by the word “stabilization”, or words “slow weakening of Russia” (which only gave Russia 2 years for adaptation).
Did the West have stopped thinking about Trust Capital altogether?
If a similar situation is possible with country that:
1. European democracy.
2. Gave up third nuclear arsenal for security guarantees of International Law. And by deception – [https://nationalinterest.org/feature/deceit-dread-and-disbelief-story-how-ukraine-lost-its-nuclear-arsenal-207076](https://nationalinterest.org/feature/deceit-dread-and-disbelief-story-how-ukraine-lost-its-nuclear-arsenal-207076)
3. Serial victim of aggression from totalitarian state, that de-facto use WMD-blackmail for unpunished WMD-imperialism. Proving that WMD-might make right. Sponsoring destruction of International Law and subsequent WMD-proliferation.
4. A victim of verified ethnocide (in regions where 75% of the population identified Ukrainian language as their native language, it is prohibited, under “threat” of execution, to speak not by Russian language).
5. Is fighting against main (China – rational agent, Russia – irrational agent) military and second political rival of the West, a complete ideological antagonist that want to return 19th century norms and morals.
Then what will happen to the others if a similar situation occur again, with them?
What fractions of a percent of Western values will be allocated to help them?
How many Christian’s compassion, forgiveness and mutual assistance? How many of Magna Carta’s Rule of Law? How many of the Renaissance’s Rational Humanism? How many the French Revolution’s “Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite”? How many Commandments of Founding Fathers about fight against clerical despotism?
Ukraine was a state with big problems that was struggling with internal conflict between pro-russians and pro-ukrainians.
It’s army was a mess.
The corruption was high.
And then they got invaded by Russia.
Do not call out others for not doing more to help Ukraine win this awful war when it is still a broken country.
The help sent, the help to Ukrainians who fled as war refugees is not insignificant. And it is still being provided.
It is up to Ukraine to start doing something significant.
The new US house speaker is a nutjob who wants to support Israel for biblical prophecy reasons but is against aid to Ukraine because he sympathises with Putin’s fascism
Everyone should probably take this article with at least a grain of salt knowing this author.