Right now I am sitting in my flat in central Kyiv responding to your post. Several areas of the country have active air raid alarms including one near my friend in Odesa who is a 25 year US military veteran and married to a Ukrainian. We stay here with the Ukrainians (along with many others) because we draw parallels between the American Revolution and this which is the Ukraine War of Independence. Your response to the woman in France might have been "Well, if it wasn't for you French, the US might not exist as a nation, but thanks for the apples madam. Now let's make an apple pie to combine our gratitude to one another." You have to reach beyond the numbers to the true spirit of our nation if you are to overcome your internal conflict. I am a GMU alum whose work you can read here on Medium and you should check out the work of other Mason alumni like Jason Jay Smart for writes regularly for The Kyiv Post; DW Phillips https://www.ukrainestory.org/ who is a Constitutional Attorney working on a documentary or Patrick James Christian PhD https://www.valka-mir.com/team . Next time you run your numbers, do a deep impact on the benefits of the War on Ukraine to the US military industrial complex. He who is not with you is against you. That's the stark truth and I hope you dig deeper before writing off a country fighting for its existence against tyranny.