It’s difficult to find any reliable overview of how much has totally been spent on either side, but as far as I can gather from searching, it appears that even including all the donations for Ukraine, Russia has put about double the amount of money into the war than Ukraine.

Russia recently mentioned options for a ceasefire and basically claiming victory of the “special military operation” with current frontline borders. This is likely just an attempt to win time to restock, meaning that they’re running low.

So while the donations are quite large amounts, it has actually been surprisingly cheap for western countries to let Russia deplete it’s war materials this way.

Yes. And it will never be enough for Ukraine to win this war

That seems like it should fall under any reasonable definition of “tangible coercion”.

It does yeah, but political speak needs to be as neutral as possible. Obviously Zelensky is saying “more tangible coercion”. What form that should take, idk, but I understand what he means.

We can increase pressure on Putler, and have to, because Russia wins in a war of attrition. It’s their fking specialty.