regardless tangs what would you expect the US to do if Russia started training Mexico's armed forces to defend itself against the US ? be realistic
and don't say 'the US wasn't training, equipping, mentoring, Ukrainian military'
i do not support Russia's invasion but they did what any rational analysis of history would suggest any other large regionally dominant country would do
furthermore, the only credible response from the West is to move armed forces into Ukraine and confront or deter Russian forces
Yet all we have done is try 'to avoid' direct confrontation with Russia
if we really had Ukraine's back, we would be there, all guns blazing