Indeed, but in our era information is so accessible that such a blatant stupidity feels painful. If only Kiev regime had compared historical levels of guns vs butter expenditures by NATO countries (you are free to laugh out loud trying to imagine these titans of thought — Zelensky, Yermak, or Podolyak — delving into cliodynamics), they could've surmised a trap. https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/0*BfC9oKka8FcJOWGI.jpg

Though some folks there did, but they have been since killed by their own former colleagues, like Kireev, imprisoned, like Dubinsky, or jettisoned abroad, like Arestovich.