None of the elected officials in Europe or North America would survive the next vote if they even floated the possibility of sending their own (or any other NATO) troops into Ukraine to fight Russia; even acknowledging that such a move would be necessary for any possibility of achieving the goals they're laying out is something which not…
None of the elected officials in Europe or North America would survive the next vote if they even floated the possibility of sending their own (or any other NATO) troops into Ukraine to fight Russia; even acknowledging that such a move would be necessary for any possibility of achieving the goals they're laying out is something which not even Joe Biden at his most addled (and he was pretty addled in his prime, if you find the footage of him berating reporters in the 1980s) was capable of committing the gaffe of admitting it openly.
In the most extreme cases, there are a small number of individuals in the US who are willing to donate $hundreds, or maybe even $thousands (if they're very affluent) toward pro-Ukrainian causes, but 95-98% of those who "back Ukraine" in the west have already hit their limit by changing the flag on their social media profie photo, or maybe even wearing a ribbon (are they still doing the $2 rubber bracelets?) on the rare occasion they're feeling like going out and risking death by covid. They're no more willing to "grab a rifle and stand a post" than Zalensky or Macron.
None of the elected officials in Europe or North America would survive the next vote if they even floated the possibility of sending their own (or any other NATO) troops into Ukraine to fight Russia; even acknowledging that such a move would be necessary for any possibility of achieving the goals they're laying out is something which not even Joe Biden at his most addled (and he was pretty addled in his prime, if you find the footage of him berating reporters in the 1980s) was capable of committing the gaffe of admitting it openly.
In the most extreme cases, there are a small number of individuals in the US who are willing to donate $hundreds, or maybe even $thousands (if they're very affluent) toward pro-Ukrainian causes, but 95-98% of those who "back Ukraine" in the west have already hit their limit by changing the flag on their social media profie photo, or maybe even wearing a ribbon (are they still doing the $2 rubber bracelets?) on the rare occasion they're feeling like going out and risking death by covid. They're no more willing to "grab a rifle and stand a post" than Zalensky or Macron.