"Ditch nucs and we'll look after you" promised the west.
Then they sent in Hunter Biden.
Russia, and China for that matter, knows that the west has leaders more focused on equity, gender, racism and all the other woke issues rather than the REAL issues. Indeed someone suggested that Biden is more concerned about Ukraine's border than his own border with Mexico.
The west did nothing over China developing covid with Fauci's assistance and accidentally/intentionally releasing it to the world because of the almighty $.
Big business wants China money.
Big business runs the west.
Big business wants war.
When big media shut down the POUS everyone laughed because it was only Trump. This was a big red flag that the world had changed and politicians, voted in by the people, were no longer in charge.
Who will risk their lives in the name of their country these days?
I'd suggest very few
Sorry about the ramblings of an old soldier but the west is fecked