Zelensky poses for Vogue photoshoot
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I don't think this was a common complaint in France or Germany (or Poland) even during the late 1930s when they desperately tried to win an arms race with Germany while at the same time sacrificing countries like Austria and Czechoslovakia for absolutely nothing.
And that's actually funny, because Hitler really, really wanted to crush Czechoslovakia by force. He was furious over the Munich Agreement, where his own diplomats "stole his war". Oh, Hitler.
We in Poland once stopped the Leninist march on the West almost single-handedly (almost, because the West and France in particular helped a lot, including French marshals and generals planning our great counter-offensive at Warsaw). But the dockyard workers in England stopped the shipments of weapons to Poland for how we were somehow perceived as the bad guys by Labour Party and friends, seen as warmongering enemies of peace and what not. As bizarre as the current pro-Leninist attitudes among the weirdos in this thread.
After the war, we unfortunately agreed to divide Ukraine (and Belarus) between Poland and Russia. It turned out to be a huge mistake. This is why after the Second War we've realized that "there can't be a free Poland without free Ukraine". And without free Poland there can't be free East Europe. The entire fall of communism began in Poland. Then the Soviet Union itself fell, and we were the very first country to recognise the independence of Ukraine.
In case if you've never heard about it, freedom isn't free.
So you were entirely dependent on foreign aid, but you were winning the war almost single-handedly.
Polish logic in action.
No Western "boots", other than volunteer fighters (like the American flyboys of the Kościuszko Squadron).
There were also allied (and betrayed) Ukrainian and Belarusian forces.
I am vaguely aware of the events after 1918. Particularly how those commies in the UK managed to force the government's hand on all sorts of socialist crap.
I am aware that freedom isn't free but we aren't paying for freedom around here only funneling more stolen money into the bullshit government, the local one not Ukraine's. I want the government here to be arming us with automatic weapons and anti-armor rockets not sending them abroad. That would be paying for freedom but instead we are paying for more surveillance, more bureaucrats, more regulation.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/649751
I guess the title alone should be sufficient.
Also https://wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/russian/id/3716/