listen to the opinion of emma ashford, senior researcher at the stimson center and professor george towne university. the interests of ukraine do not necessarily coincide with the interests of its western partners for kiev , the stakes are higher. and since the country's economy is already in ruins, the ukrainian leadership may feel that they have nothing to lose by risking an escalation or continuation of the war. however, ukraine is kept only by the supply of weapons, funding and transmission, intelligence data from the west. european states bear significant economic costs due to the war, any risk of escalation or nuclear exchange creates a direct threat to the very west of ukraine's patron in western countries have significant interests in the conflict. they must determine how it will end ivan alekseevich but really. uh, the united states is lying. when they say that kiev should decide everything. and we, as it were, do not have any significance for this no impact. after all, when the united states says that the word is for kiev. it means that simply, the united states is interested for now. the