pretty surreal to watch western media talk about how the west is helping Ukraine

That's the worst part of this, Ukraine and Russia could have come to terms at basically any point through this, but the West keeps stringing Ukraine along with promises of support/NATO membership.

But instead a few hundred thousand people are killed and maimed, cities are leveled, and the land is salted with uxo that will continue to kill and main for generations to come.

And if you ask your average Natoid they'll say it's worth it "to bleed Russia" because thats what they've been conditioned to say from birth. The West is really willing to fight to the last Ukrainian, just like they're willing to feed any of their past proxies into woodchippers.

It's all so fucking bleak, and NATO leaders seem fine with repeatedly provoking Russia and escalating the war. Not that it's anything new of course, the entire Cuban missile crisis is still framed as "those evil soviets wanted to base missiles right next to America to bypass warning systems, how dastardly! American missiles were already based in Turkey for the same reasons? Never heard of it!"

What's wild to me is that there hasn't been any significant resistance from within Ukraine to their own leadership sacrificing them all to Russia

What's so gut-wrenching about this whole situation is the extent to which liberals are just using the Ukrainians as a blunt instrument to kill Russians and make Putin lose.

Hopefully most of them escaped over the past two years.

The betrayal narrative is already starting to take root in Ukraine.

When they lose this war or and are forced to negotiate with Russia

Hopefully the neo-nazis end up in the meat grinder

It's not going to help that they'll see the US as being more worried about Israel. It'll spur actual antisemitism.

It was even before the war and now it is Thirty-Years War-level.

They'll just start conscripting women once every last man is dead.