Since when has Ukraine's defense against the russian invasion been a "proxy war"? Your very first sentence destroyed any credibility the rest of your comment had (not that there was much worth reading anyway).
> The country that’s getting 55% of its state budget from the EU isn’t a proxy. Not to mention the munitions, the weapons, the training, and above all the access to the US’ trillion dollar ISR and satcom network.
If the Kremlin calculated that European countries would just back off it was a very bad call indeed.
Any reasonable leadership would have cut their losses yet here we are.
Spade? That’s a shovel drenched in blood.