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Ukraine cannot even pay their public employees anymore. They cannot finance their mercenaries without our aid. Roughly 2/3rds of all their military hardware at this point is supplied by others.

We are keeping this going, no differently than Iran, Syria, and some financiers in Saudi Arabia (even though they are an ally some rich folks there were paying for things in Iraq) kept that going.

Since you want to talk about firsts or biggest since WWII, how about these:

-—We are funding and arming the biggest mercenary army ever assembled in Ukraine. Up until just recently we were talking about international banns on mercenaries and most the Western media was highly derogatory about them.

-—We are allowing for the active recruitment of these mercenaries out of the Ukrainian consulates and embassies in Western nations, that was never done before.

-—We are allowing our tax money to be used for Ukrainian IO operations which target Western audiences and our governments say nothing.

-—We have provided more money and more weapons to Ukraine than any other nations in history in terms of military aid in that short period of time. We have pumped as much money into Ukraine, as we have in Israel since we started arming them under Kennedy (1960s).

-—We have coerced nations into sanctioning Russia, yet they get their energy and food from Russia: Egypt, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

-—We are providing in some cases state of the art technologies which we only export to very select nations, Ukraine not having been one of them before this war.

-—We never after WWII found neo NAZI groups to be good or accepted them spreading their ideology before, but I guess the old saying “the enemy of your enemy is your friend,” really is true: https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-facebook-azov-battalion-russia/ https://time.com/5926750/azov-far-right-movement-facebook/

-—We (of course there is plausible deniability) likely blew up the Nordstream pipeline. Blowing up a pipeline through which an ally gets a great share of their energy, that’s a first!

-—We saw Western media in some cases actually condoning and talking highly of blatant acts of terrorism, such as the killing of a pro-Russian blogger by a bomb in St Petersburg. I guess terrorism is so bad, as long as it’s good terrorism, and we get to decide what that is.

The ONLY difference is scale. We are supplying Ukraine with money, weapons, intel, training, logistics, and are willing to take things further regards sanctions and trying to hurt Russian gas and oil exports at an unprecedented scale. Turn that spigot off, and the war would have been long over.

This is our war, Ukraine is merely supplying the bodies and in some cases these aren’t even Ukrainian but are coming from as far away as Columbia, Brazil...

Yes, this is a guerilla war, the only difference is that in this case the outside influence “us” is fueling this conflict in truly epic proportions, not with a few mortar rounds, IR barriers to be used in IEDs, NVGs, sniper rifles, newer RPGs, hand held GPS receivers, and a few Quds forces advising the belligerents like Sadr and his militia in Iraq... No, what we’re doing is HUGE!

This really is impressive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_aid_to_Ukraine_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War