The situation in Ukraine is ugly.

I’ve been following this since the beginning. Caveat: I’m not there, so I don’t know. That said, I have seen hundreds, yea, perhaps thousands, of videos of Chechens, Donbas militias, and Russian troops kicking Ukrainian ass. I have yet to see a single video from the Ukie side showing them dusting any Russians. The propaganda that the West spews is always, given a few days or a week, disproven.
Our government leaders nearly always lie to us. Vladimir Putin behaves as a statesman and does what he says … always. It appears he can be taken at his word. While we demonstrably ignore international law, the Russians have been exceedingly careful to obey it.
Everyone has to believe something. I believe if Western Civilization is to be saved, it will be saved from without. The only potential I see for that salvation is Russian. They are anti-woke, no longer Communist, support the family, traditional values, and the Orthodox Church. Putin has said he has no issues with Europeans or Americans, only the globalist leaders who rule over us. I pray he is successful in destroying that cancer.
We dirt people have more in common with Russians than we do with our ‘elite’. We should be strong allies, not adversaries.