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The problem is, the west spent so much of last few decades on populist handouts, feeding diversity and climate agendas that rhwy don't have the resources to spend for some serious hardware or training for the Ukrainian soldiers.
Ukrainian soldiers don't need training from NATO; NATO soldiers need training from Ukraine. We are setting ourselves up for a much bigger and more expensive war by failing to stop Russia (and China) now. And we're squandering our opportunity to learn how to fight drone warfare.
As for money, we're holding hundreds of billions of dollars of Russian assets that can trivially be sent to Ukraine. It's more money than Ukraine has ever gotten in military support. Indeed, one objective by Russia in all these fake peace negotiations is to present the narrative that the money can't be spent lest it prevent a peace deal.
A second factor is that Belgium actually taxes the interest on those frozen assets, tbe majority of which it has, adding billions to its federal budget.
Anyway, if the west is serious, it can easily deport these parasites on society and use the money saved to defend themselves via Ukraine. Unfortunately the incentives to do that aren't there: Ukrainian refugees are a rare example of financially profitable immigration.
Western companies have exposure in Russia too, in numbers bigger than Russian asset in the EU. So in a title for tat asset seizure, the EU will likely be a net loser.
Western companies with exposure in Russia were knowingly trading with evil. They deserve their losses. And, once Russia is actually defeated, many of those losses can be taken back by force.
I doubt the west will ever rule Russia for the take back by force option to be viable.
I came back from Ukraine just the other day. That trip I visited Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Sloviansk and Kramatorsk (~20km from the eastern front lines).
This is just the latest in a long campaign by Russia to make Ukrainian cities unlivable. Ukraine's third biggest city, Odesa, was almost entirely without power for about a week straight after Russia did a massive attack against power plants and substations in that area.
Worse though was losing water: on top of the attack against power, Russia also attacked water infrastructure such as water pumps, water towers, treatment plants, etc.
In Ukraine pretty much all businesses have backup generators, so losing power isn't that big of a deal. Losing water however really makes life hell. I personally know a mother with a baby who had to endure a week without running water in a 5th floor apartment. Every time you want to flush a toilet you need to drag up another few kg of water in jugs.
On top of that Russia is constantly attacking Ukrainian civilians directly, from Shahed attacks on apartment buildings, to the Human Safari campaign of suicide and grenade dropping drones again ordinary people, to regular attacks against markets. I personally took these photos in Kyiv and Sloviansk:
Closer to the front lines gas stations are particularly high risk. This particular one in Kramatorsk had already had to rebuild their wall after an attack. The concrete blocks and sandbags are very much needed:
Russia is simply evil.
Fortunately, Ukraine can certainly win this. For example, Russia's economy is in such bad shape that they're starting to use horses rather than proper vehicles:
If you've been paying attention, you'd also know about the endless hits on Russian oil and gas. The biggest obstacle is the unwillingness to accept that Russia is evil and needs to be destroyed. Ukraine damn well should be attacking all Russian infrastructure. Failing to do so is prioritizing the lives of evil people over good. This bullshit is so ridiculous that while Russian literally dumps anti-personnel mines over Ukrainian cities with drones, Ukrainian forces can't even publicly publicly admit to using anti-personnel mines against Russia.
Ultimately this is no different than how the far left prioritize the lives of rapists and murderers over their victims. The only difference is that this absurdity is mainly coming from the right, rather than the left.
Killing Russians faster makes the world a better place.