so your alternative of inaction involves a likely outcome of raping and murdering thousands of civilians in the name of peace for thousands of soldiers.

Fantastic.

I'm sure they'll still accept your personal donations, but no, I don't think spending billions to ostensibly prolong a forever-war thousands of miles away is even necessarily a good or ethical thing.

You know, you all talk about “spending” and “giving”. All that money goes back to the US and funds jobs in the US.

the us can do plenty of things without spending billions of dollars that are short of this, and yes, i have personally donated to the Ukrainian effort.

Russia can't sustain their losses and they're not winning.

Their economy is a joke. Putin can't exit because everything will collapse slightly faster than it's already collapsing.

They can't even protect their own territory in Kursk. It's not going to be a forever war.

Russia's misinformation bots are the most effective part of their military.

Having said that, Europe needs to step up because the US has lost it's damn mind.

An obvious alternative is to increase support to Ukraine to give them what they need to expel Russia. The good old USA has the resources to do that but Republicans have blocked increasing aid at the orders of Donald Trump for years now. And now that he is in power he is finally blocking it altogether.