apart from restarting the russian mic, stopping ukraine having nato bases in their territory, stopping the rampant glownigger operations right next door (if they can prevent all the trafficking on their own border it'll benefit them massively) and of course, getting a shit load of real world combat experience and testing new equipment. on the general i agree with you, but ultimately ukraine spent 8 years trying to get russia to bite the bait, so ukraine got what they wanted, and russia bit.
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