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After the collapse of the Soviet union seeing all the military hardware the Ukrainians gave up would make anybody heart broken.
For neutrality they gave up on bombers and nukes guess what the Russians took Crimea and Donbass while the USA stood there and done nothing about it.
The price to pay neutrality if only Ukraine did not give up its nukes and the hardware that they got when the Soviets collapsed. Has to be the biggest kick in the balls in the history of geopolitics.
The real question for me is what Turkey is planning to do, they cannot allow Ukraine to be alone against Russia.
Rumours I have heard are that Russia is planning an operation around north of crimea and also around mariupol area to connect the luhansk/donetsk to crimea.....or at very least to gain control of water pipe to crimea (that ukraine closed off).
The temporary water provision situation (via kerch strait) in Crimea has apparently been getting worse last cpl years or so.
The stakes are high for these lands. Russia is never going to give up its long sought warm water ports. While Ukraine wants its lands back along with revenge for what happened in 2014.
I wonder if ukraine is allowed to bring the javelin ATGMs to the theatre. Apparently at US request, they are for "show" since acquired, being kept in western locations away from front.
We might know soon.