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Opinion: Ukrainians are naive about Western support no more

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Frida Ghitis: Ukrainian - Canadians who volunteered for overseas service during the Second World War were jaundiced by British diplomats.

She says the West never felt it needed a free Ukraine , but the West has given Ukraine only enough aid to make sure they don’t lose the war, never enough to win it, Ghitis writes.

Ghitis says the strong do what they have the power to do, and the weak accept what they must accept.

Lubomyr Luciuk has retired as a professor of political geography at the Royal Military College of Canada but remains a senior research fellow with the chair of Ukrainian studies at the University of Toronto .

He was declared a persona non grata by the Russian Federation on April 28, 2022 .

Luciu: Ukrainians did not start this war. Ukrainians never were, nor are they now, nor will they ever be Russians .

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