It's not "just politics" when people are literally dying because of your actions.

Ukraine is in dire straits. As the war drags on, the people are starting to lose hope. Young Ukrainians are avoiding the draft, convinced fighting has become a futile effort, not wanting to spend years of their lives battling an enemy that has a vast amount more manpower and resources. POLITICO reported that the average age of the country's frontline soldier is now 43, showing both how desperate the nation is for soldiers and how problematic the draft-dodging has become.

Ukrainians have seen over 31,000 soldier deaths and another 10,000 civilian deaths in the war already. The army has reduced daily ammunition firing by over 70 percent, going from 7,000 rounds a day to just 2,000.

"If there is no U.S. support, it means that we have no air defense, no Patriot missiles, no jammers for electronic warfare, no 155-millimeter artillery rounds," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pleaded to The Washington Post. "It means we will go back, retreat, step by step, in small steps."

A Ukrainian loss would prove not just catastrophic for Ukraine itself, but could very well force the United States and its European allies into a larger conflagration, as defense analyst Edward Arnold explained to........

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