Ukrainian diaspora in the US and Canada often tends to surpass even Arabs in terms of lobbyism intensity, despite living across the pond. Maybe that’s why the whole existenz of the Ukraine as independent state had been totaled by its second president Leonid Kuchma to three (in Russian) words: UKRAINE IS NOT RUSSIA (the title of his book https://imwerden.de/publ-11870.html ), while Ukrainian rightwing nationalists fought on Chechen side in Caucasus wars of Russia during 1990s. All that said and considered, on February 24 Putin gave the world a masterclass of how to lose a war simply by starting it first.