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@AnthonyJK

last thing I'll say on this is Ukraine ideology, like other countries in the Russia sphere of influence is they 'look towards Europe' for their future, but their idea of European democracy is incredibly dated, it's pre austerity: social democracy + free markets, I suppose many European countries are still like this, Netherlands, Switzerland etc. but these are the winners, never really was the case for southern or eastern Europe, And we know how the US and Europe "rebuilds" war torn countries these days with shady neoliberal public/private partnerships,

It's probably why so much emphasis is placed on post war reparations from Russia, a just demand, sure, but if Ukraine wins it's not gonna be in any position to extract that from Russia, especially if the US is unwilling to concede anything else.