So it's actually funny that you chose the French support to the colonies as an analogy for American support to the Ukraine. Just like it was a terrible decision for the French to expend their resources and capital on the American revolution, it's an equally terrible decision for the US to expend resources and capital on supporting the Ukraine. The French utterly collapsed within 20 years of the American revolution, in large part due to their profligate spending in support of American independence. Have you looked around at America's economic and political situation lately? We'll see if we even make it a long as the French did before a complete societal collapse. As for caring what the Russians think, I don't. It's called empathy. I can imagine myself in their shoes. That doesn't mean I adopt or agree with their point of view.