I am at a loss on how to justify this, these people are dying because of a few elected people in the west, who are more self interested than anything else.
How to snatch defeat from victory, from a position of strength with the means and well fortified positions to extract maximum amount of damage and losses on the Russian forces, to a point where Ukraine is fighting for their lives and people are dying because of the lack of munitions and supplies.. This is rapidly turning into Ukraines "Bridge to Far".
I dread to think of the horrors that are about to be inflicted on the women and children in the major cities when the likes of the Patriot and other systems start to run dry of missiles.
Does the west not understand that the place to stop Russia's ambitions and goals is IN Ukraine. Without Ukraine, Russia will probably try it on in one of the smaller NATO states and if the response is as nonsensical as the current state of affairs and NATO stalls in it's response and ponders on the brink of war, then Putin will know the west will not interfer.
That was proven in Georgia, that gave Putin the confidence to annex Crimea and the Donestsk regions, full well knowing the west would NOT interfere, and true to form we didn't, which gave him the confidence to further his ambitions and to try it on in Ukraine.. Thankfully the World united against that and Ukraine fought back... But now we are at a turning point in History and we need to either put up or shut up and slink away in shame as genocide is carried out in our name.
