More generally there are conflicts such as that in Northern Ireland where from my point of view there is not a wrong or a right side but if people were fundraising for either the IRA or Unionist fighters that would be a bad thing.

I remember a controversy on a now-defunct crowdfounding platform that was intended to support open source software where one of the top recipients was someone who was raising money for a divorce lawsuit.

On one hand I can understand that somebody might not do that but from working at a mediation center that did a lot of parenting plans I learned to be very skeptical of what anybody says about a divorce. That is, frequently both partners are going to tell a story that is full of half-truths. People in a situation like that can go to a mediation and often make decisions they are happy with in the long term, but if you try to put together a consistent story of what happened you usually can't. Some people might be inclined to believe the person they are closer to, or some people might tend to sympathize with a man or with a women (though it might be two of the same these days), but I learned not to even try to make a model of "what happened" because its inevitably going to be distorted.

Some people might see a relationship between the personal and political and believe they are supporting some wider cause by crowdfunding a divorce but I don't feel entirely comfortable with people crowdfunding personal antagonisms any more than I am with people crowdfunding armed conflicts.

We’re humans. We get to have double standards whenever it is convenient in all other points in life. I think it would be reasonable to apply it here.

I get, or rather don't since my country wasn't invaded in my lifetime, that people are scared to shit over that. I knoe I would be, too. And yes, I can read. My whole point is that there are rules in place. Using private funding for stuff like this is just not acceptable, it is rather what groups like ISIS are doing. NATO, and NATO countries have ways to organize the stuff much faster, easier, cheaper (just thinking of the German armed forces "surplus" stuff sitting various warehouses) and, most importantly, through proper channels to Ukraine. And they should, and should have done so long time ago. And maybe even did, none of those things is usually made public.