I don’t remember seeing American retired CIA colonels, tanks or Patriot missiles on the side of Ukraine. Some ready-to-eat meals, some body armour, but that’s about it for the visible contribution. We can only speculate on behind the scenes efforts (if any), but I suspect additional financial help, maybe satellite imagery for intelligence. Ukrainians are saying, if there was a Republican in office, they would’ve had military aid by now.
Nobody is actually calling for American troops, this is Ukrainian fight against the Russians. Although, there are calls for more body armour and night vision goggles
The only thing consistent about the Kiev Gov. has been consistently calling for 'US military intervention' from the get go. Yats was screaming about it once he realized hesitation from the US representatives.
Kiev does not have , nor did it, a military which can even bring security to their city let alone fight in the East...history now has already shown an unwillingness of their people to fight...and resorted to hired militias to offset the lack of soldiers, who even under threat continued to go awol....this we do know.
I have stated from the beginning that Kiev/Gov wants the US military to come into this fray and will do all that they think possible to incite happenings in this war to gain International Condemnation of those in the East and get the military intervention they want. ...which is more than simply "aid". They want our armies and our equipment...and that's their bottom line. They haven't been able to get this in one full swoop so they've resorted to underhanded and dangerous maneuvers to orchestrate intervention.
Look, we know the corrupted system of Ukraine runs deep and throughout 'every single Gov. age cy' and throughout the Parliament itself. They spent decades refining this scam system and they aren't about ready to let go of their gravy train because of those in the East...and as soon as the US teams have gone home you'll see that ugly beast raise it's head once again. So they want a war with Russia more than most realize....they just want someone else to fight it for them.