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Commentary: Critics of US efforts have it wrong — Ukraine isn’t Libya or Afghanistan

Ukrainian firefighters put out a fire in a residental building following a shelling on the frontline town of Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022, amid Russia's military invasion on Ukraine.

The U.S. and its allies have been engaging in a significant military intervention to help Ukraine resist Russia’s brutal invasion for the past nine months. Not only have they given considerable financial, humanitarian and military resources — including sophisticated weapons systems — to Ukraine, but they also have embedded advisers with Ukrainian forces, allowed thousands of their citizens to join Ukraine as foreign fighters and provided a vast amount of real-time intelligence to the country.

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