> The country that’s getting 55% of its state budget from the EU isn’t a proxy. Not to mention the munitions, the weapons, the training, and above all the access to the US’ trillion dollar ISR and satcom network.

Spade? That’s a shovel drenched in blood.

If the Kremlin calculated that European countries would just back off it was a very bad call indeed. Any reasonable leadership would have cut their losses yet here we are.