The problem of countries like Ukraine is that they are actually so behind mentally that they can't even notice who their betters are, which mean they stumble blindly around in the dark.
This is fine, that's why superior proxies like Russia or EU of even more higher up leaders like US or China exist, to guide and micromanage these mentally deficient cultures so they can achieve useful results. In this case, luckily, thanks to the foresight of Xi and Putin and the hard work of many skilled fighters, suppliers and industrialists in our countries, we will get everything and the Americans nothing.
Ukrainians are better off continuing to be the peasants they were under the tsar, or the USSR. Part of a bigger, more intelligent whole that does the thinking for them.
For them to dabble about talking international politics and delineate which nations are "intellectual" or not is like asking a squirrel about calculus or like asking the vishwaguru about personal hygiene. It can only end in millions of dead Ukrainians, and indeed, it has. Time for this idiocy to stop.