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Some still think that Ukraine is some “small country in Europe” and do not think it is going to be a serious problem if Russia takes over, it’s far away, somewhere across the ocean… First, it is not small. It is the largest in Europe by territory (if you do not count Russia, of course). Most of the land is fertile and it can feed (or starve by cutting supplies) half a billion people.  But it’s not the main problem you going to face. For the last 2 centuries, the victories of Russian Empire and USSR greatly depended on Ukrainians who were part of it. Ukraine was about 20% of USSR population. But it was more than 20% of military force. E.g. in WW2, in some periods up to 40% troops were Ukrainians, the average is above 30%. In 1980ties, about 40% of USSR army officers were Ukrainians. So, “military KPI” of average Ukrainian was noticeably bigger than average USSR. Even now, many Russian generals are ethnic Ukrainians that stayed in Russia after the collapse of USSR. But that’s not all. Soviet intercontinental nuke carriers (known as “Satan”) were made in Ukraine, in Dnipro city. Even more, they were serviced by Ukrainians in post-Soviet time. And Russia cannot replace them, look what’s happening to their “new” Sarmat rockets, they all explode. They dream of getting Ukrainian engineers back. And did I tell you that Ukraine possesses the biggest uranium deposits in Europe? Now, let’s back to these days. Ukrainian army is times smaller than Russian one by people and amount of weapons, but managed to reclaim half of occupied territory, and even captured some Russian territory. It tells a lot about skills. Also, if you are watching the technologies race, you’ll see that Ukrainian engineers are making new types of drones, and Russians are copying them by reverse engineering. We already have battle robots with AI, and it's just the beginning. So do you really want Russian brute force to be combined with Ukrainian creativity again, like it was many times before?  That will smell real trouble to the world in the long perspective. You wouldn’t want it. Current expenses would seem pennies (and in fact they are, it’s a really small part of the budget). It will cost trillions to stop the new Russian empire later, and money won’t be enough, you’ll have to pay in the currency of war, which is blood and tears. Like Ukrainians are paying now.