The Russian President, who people thins don’t look too good these days, has had his effort to neutralise the Ukraine, the largets country beside’s Russia itself in ‘Europe’, backfire on him….
The Ukraianian’s have put up a stubbornly strong fight against a country times bigger then theirs….
Thta has changed the American President leading the West and Europe to change his intial reluctance to do ANY militarily to charging ahead with sending weapons from off the shelves in America and Europe…
There is NO doubt that Ukraine Presidendent Zelensky WILL end have his counmtry end up very much like Israel as a military force to be reckonerd with standing against Russia….
There is already Sweden and Finland moving to join NATO….
Zelensky will continue to try and do so also…
But that would be in name actually….
Since the Ukraine is already getting TONS of Western weapons despite Putin’s threat’s against this…..
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And America and the West will sending money to the beleaguered country that will have a means to come back stronger economically with it’s rebuilding…..
The longer Ukraine’s army fends off the invading Russians, the more it absorbs the advantages of Western weaponry and training — exactly the transformation President Vladimir Putin wanted to prevent by invading in the first place.
The list of arms flowing to Ukraine is long and growing longer. It includes new American battlefield aerial drones and the most modern U.S. and Canadian artillery, anti-tank weapons from Norway and others, armored vehicles and anti-ship missiles from Britain and Stinger counter-air missiles from the U.S., Denmark and other countries.
If Ukraine can hold off the Russians, its accumulating arsenal of Western weapons could have a transformative effect in a country that has, like other former Soviet republics, relied mainly on arms and equipment from the Soviet era….
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“What has happened is, Mr. Putin is getting exactly what he did not want. He’s getting more weapons forward, he’s getting more NATO forward, and he’s getting more America in Europe,” Breedlove said in an interview.
The complexities of keeping up Western military aid to Ukraine, even as its troops are fully occupied with a brutal war, are a reminder of what is at stake. Putin said before launching the invasion that Moscow could not tolerate what he saw as a Western effort to make Ukraine a de facto member of NATO….