Yeah, true, but the thing is that the Ukrainians and the Russians were both sort of right. Nobody arrived to help the Russians (just take advantage of their current plight), but the Ukrainians have gotten America and most of Europe to back them up, for years and years.

And they've impressed us all, by holding out so long, and scaling up so fast. They're producing things their NATO partners can't make and they're the only ones who have proven that any of their stuff actually does what they say. Ukraine also taught them how to defeat Russian anti-aircraft systems. That played into Israel and USA getting around them in Iran and Venezuela, respectively.