You are noble.
The thing about wars, is that the guy that jumps on the grenade are heroes. The guys that put up the last stand are heroes.
We will award them. We will honor them. We will make movies about their sacrifice.
But, they will not be around tomorrow to fight the Russians. It is a cold fact of war.
If they retreat and Russia takes the Russian provinces, it stops for a while. During that break, Ukraine makes a plea for membership in NATO. We put missiles back in Poland.
We talk tough for a couple of years.
Everyone lives.
I know they won’t make a movie about it, but the long term story plays out better.