The ''[[Wunderwaffe]]'' provided by the United States and NATO take months of training to learn to operate properly. The Zelensky regime didn't have months to train [[AFU]] forces to use these weapons. NATO casualties in Bakhmut began to stack up, and NATO could no longer maintain the fiction that only Ukrainian forces were fighting and hide the fact that NATO was directly involved in combat. Poland was the first to reveal to the public how many troops were killed,<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/11/ukraine-war-a-contentious-graveyard-in-poland.html#more</ref> and the number of NATO deaths and casualties grew throughout the winter campaign. NATO played into Russian hands, helping Russia with its overall stated aims from the beginning - the demilitarization of Ukraine, which was becoming expanded to the de-NATOization of [[Europe]] through attrition of resources. | The ''[[Wunderwaffe]]'' provided by the United States and NATO take months of training to learn to operate properly. The Zelensky regime didn't have months to train [[AFU]] forces to use these weapons. NATO casualties in Bakhmut began to stack up, and NATO could no longer maintain the fiction that only Ukrainian forces were fighting and hide the fact that NATO was directly involved in combat. Poland was the first to reveal to the public how many troops were killed,<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/11/ukraine-war-a-contentious-graveyard-in-poland.html#more</ref> and the number of NATO deaths and casualties grew throughout the winter campaign. NATO played into Russian hands, helping Russia with its overall stated aims from the beginning - the demilitarization of Ukraine, which was becoming expanded to the de-NATOization of [[Europe]] through attrition of resources. |