This article was pretty light on the sheer amount of Western aid provided to Ukraine.

The whole thing is a cluster. A ton of Ukrainian people *are* ethnically Russian, particularly in the east. They aren’t exactly going to be ok under a NATO backed regime that’s hostile to Russia.

Russia shouldn’t tolerate NATO troops stationed on one of its longest land borders.

I guarantee if the Chinese worked out a deal to station troops in northern Mexico we wouldn’t be happy.

Unfortunately the conflict has also revealed a disgusting double standard in Western media.

Ukrainians are “European Christians” with names, hopes and dreams.

Not like *those* people who are collateral damage. Burn the village to save it, blah blah.

It's actually pretty hard. The most expected scenario after pumping hundreds of billions into a cleptocracy would be for most of that money to get stolen with little to show for it. Not to build a machine that stopped Russia. What Ukraine authorities managed to do, given the country's state (the coruption is truly mindboggling), is remarkable.

Why all the down votes?

Yes, it is a proxy war between NATO and Russia. But have they really pumped 600 billion dollars? I thought it was around 100 to 150 billions, so far, which isn't that much for the west.