My Ukrainian friends want the war to stop at all cost, they are on the brink and all help goes to the military effort... my friends in Lvov can't feed themselves and have to go dig mushrooms... they don't care who wins, they just want peace. NATO sustaining that war just to save face isn't peace. Trump is an opportunity to end that war the democrats have sustained.
Ukraine has the motive, means and opportunity to rapidly develop nuclear weapons. From a military analyst I have reason to trust due to long term accuracy and lack of click bait, "months" rather than years.
The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, signed by Belarus, Khazakstan, Ukraine, Russia, the US, and the UK, obliging respect for signatories' borders and sovereignty, territorial integrity, economic security… is also what put Ukraine into the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
Fellow European here - I think we have different Ukranian friends. All mine were bitterly frustrated at Biden's failure to properly support them militarily, and resigned to having to fight to the death if Trump orders they secede to Russia. There is zero popular support in Ukraine for 'giving up', since it would likely mean mass murder, and the end of Ukraine as an independent state.
I want the Ukraine war to stop, too. However, I do not want it to stop at any cost, if that means that Ukraine will need to surrender its land to Moscow and to agree to being part of Russia (again).
This will send the wrong signal to Putin, and prove his model of acquiring buffer areas around Russia actually works - next on the list are the Baltics, and Moldova perhaps.
I'm going to be in the trenches as soon as they get ideas about Finland - and you do not want that.
European here (French, been helping Ukraine since the full scale invasion started).
We have no business relying on the US anymore. They are too far gone. Their political rhethorics are polluted by Russian propaganda. (Just look at the rest of the comments here...)
It's time to get busy defending ourselves. Time for a war effort that doesn't involve merely wearing flag pins or doing cute street protests.
We need to be funding our own defence. We need to be sending actual troops in Ukraine, not just weapons. No more of this sidelines bullshit.
