It’s easy to say that you have to be grateful when it’s not your country that is being destroyed and its population being killed. The call for more guns is not from a spoiled person but one who is seeing death and destruction every day.

I feel like people are starting to lose track of the big picture as the war becomes more and more normalized. I imagine the same goes for Ukraine seemingly taking the allies’ support more “for granted” than in the beginning of the war. Obviously, the Ukrainians are fighting this war in the interest of the entire western community, so to ask them to be more grateful for western support just seems petty imo.

This is literally a NATO proxy-war with Russian. If we don’t want to send actual troops, we better be giving them all the equipment they ask for. Blank check.

Is it really a proxy-war if NATO is reacting to Russian agression, though? I don’t see much evidence that NATO was rooting for this conflict to escalate the way it did.

Trying to make sure I understood the root of your question here.

Is it that the war in Ukraine can’t be a proxy war because NATO isn’t rooting for it?

In my understanding, calling the Ukraine war a NATO proxy war implies that NATO is seen as an agressor/enabler in this conflict, effectively exploiting Ukraine to further NATO’s agenda. I’m not sure if that’s what you meant,by your comment (cause if so I would disagree with you), that’s why I’m asking :)