The fact that Ukraine has the reserves to be able to send specialists to the Middle East right now shows which way this is tipping.
While Ukraine is garnering support (and frankly, debt) from some rich nations by sending them resources, russias access to missiles/drones is getting worse since Iran needs them for themselves, so likely won’t export any more for the time being.
What does Ukraine get back from the USA? I just hope it isn’t a jdvance “thank you”?
In this case either the US, Israel, or Gulf Nations paying Ukraine actual money.
To be honest immediately not much, Trump is a russian asset so…
Medium term though, Ukraine is a popular cause in the US, Trump and his cronies are always desperately trying to distract from that and throw a wrench in the mechanisms of the US trying to help Ukraine but they cannot as hard as they try make the majority of people in the US not find common cause with Ukraine, even when Trump hangs a picture of him and Putin in the whitehouse.
The more Zelensky openly helps the US the more it destabilizes Trump/Republican attempts to sabotage Ukraine and makes Trump look like an unpopular weak fraud of a leader.
It is classic “kill them with kindness”.
