To understand Ukraine, you 1st must understand the war has nothing to do with saving an ally's sovereignty or thwarting Russian aggression or any such noble cause. It is simply a device to deplete Western financial and military resources. Contrary to the popular propaganda, Russia could have squashed Ukraine like a bug in a few short weeks, but didn't. Why? Because Russia is fulfilling it's assigned role in assisting the CCP aligned globalists to dismantle both the US and NATO - re Western - countries economic and military capability. Consider also, the Brandon admin blew up the Nordstream pipelineband is now selling LNG to Europe at up to 6X it's actual value. The proceeds of those sales then get sent back to the big sucking hole that is the Ukraine war. Both the US and Europe now have increasingly diminished economies and military capabilities. The guy traded for the lesbian pothead is an international arms dealer. Much of the very sophisticated weaponry sent to Ukraine is finding it's way into the black market. Coincidence? Who benefits from all this? Most obviously, China since the West now is a diminishing military threat. But also all the nations in the BRICS alternate banking system which seeks to replace the US $ as the world's reserve currency.