Might want to dial down on "cultural protectionism" when totally dependent on USA and EU.
Yes, this is how it works. I can't see anything illogical in this statement. How does Himars affect culture?
What makes you think that USA goals are completely aligned with UA?
Idc, man. Since they're giving to us weaponry and money, I'm fine with that. In fact, typical "Israel case". USA and Israel HAD, have and will have a lot of disagreements in politic. Despite this was never a reason to Israel to reject american help. So you should try better
But what makes you think that relationship is similar of that with Israel and not like with
Kurds? And you really believe that UA can somehow take Crimea back (with Crimean kids that were 12 back then are 20 yrs old now and lived all of their adult lives as RU citizens) without Russia activating 2millioin of it's reservist in addition to current 175k troops? Why wouldn't you care for the end goal? If the outcome is all the same, but the difference is only in loss of life (to both sides) that doesn't bother you at all? And I'll ask again, will you concede that the losses will be senseless if/when RU takes Kharkiv/Odesa/Zaporizhzhia/Dnipro... or any and all UA losses can be justified by claiming that they were actually protecting Poland/Europe/freedom whatever... from Russian orcs?
When you need weapons to defend your country from a foreign invasion, it really doesn't matter where they come from. And yeah, obviously they really do think they can take Crimea back. Remember back when Putin thought it wouldn't even be a war, just a special operation in response to NATO expansion, and even in the West, the question was not if but how many days until the fall of Kiev? Would they last through the weekend?
Maybe a week? Would Zelensky be killed? That was 6 months ago. Do you really think things are going according to Putins plan? They've given up on Kiev, Nato added two more countries, Sanctions are far more aggressive than anticipated, and basically all the effort over the past 30 years to recover from the collapse of the SU has been erased. Not to mention the ever growing list a military humiliations. Their flagship being sunk, the trap bridge over the river, and now somehow they blew up an air field in crimea 250km behind the front line.
Of course, you won't believe any of that because you believe what Putin wants you to believe. But you must understand that's what is believed by many in the west, Ukraine included.
