It went differently than most observers expected: The conflict in Ukraine has turned into a war. The threatening gestures of the Russian bear were more than just saber-rattling. In the early morning of Thursday last week, the Russian offensive began. The whole western world was in shock but impressed by the irrepressible will of the Ukrainian people to face the enemy and fight it. Overnight, president Selenskyj became a hero of the western world. After a brief phase of shock, the West begins to deliver war machinery to Ukraine.