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That is not how I read the parent comment. I read it as US making Ukraine do what US wanted to do.

It's tough to say that Ukraine and US are allies right now. US refuses to hold security assurance, as promised, and forbids Ukraine to restore nuclear arsenal, as before the promise. Bullies behave is such way, not allies.

It is irrelevant to my interpretation of the aforementioned parent comment.

The point is that US made Ukraine do something that the US wanted to do but did not do because were it the US, then it would have had repercussions on US, so they made Ukraine do their dirty work.

Curious use of "made" here when it's something that Ukraine would have very much wanted to do, this cyberattack.

Both benefit'd, then.

According to the down-votes... wait, so they did not both benefit, then?

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