1. Poor Ukraine.

2. The war with Russia has devastated the beautiful country. The golden domes and handsome buildings in the cities, towns and even villages have been reduced to rubbles by Russian rockets.

3. Ukraine may have thought that NATO would help defend the country. It wanted to join NATO but the process was slow. When Russia launched its pre-emptive strike, membership of NATO had not yet been approved. Not being a member of NATO, that military alliance was not obliged to defend Ukraine. So Ukraine is left to fight the war alone.

4. It may not be the intention of NATO to delay Ukraine’s membership. But whether it was intentional or not, the war benefited NATO. It does not have to fight against Russia and expose its young soldiers to being killed. But the war would expose the strength of Russia’s military capacities. Also the war would weaken Russia. The economy of Russia would be badly affected. In addition to expending a lot of money fighting the war, Russia also suffers from sanctions.

5. The NATO countries benefited from the impoverishment of Russia, their enemy. They want to prolong the war and so they supplied weapons and money to Ukraine. It does not matter if Ukraine is devasted. To NATO the weakening of Russia due to the war would render Russia less belligerent.

6. Ukraine cannot win the war. And now it looks like the Western Europeans and America are about to dump Ukraine.

7. Poor Ukraine. It has been taken for a ride by the western alliance. And now Trump wants to dump that country.