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They provided some dudes, guns and money - but never enough to allow the Colonists to drive the British off the continent.

Other that stuffing the British Navy at Yorktown?

By definition, analogous situations are not identical - they have differences.

You guys are straining mightily to use the American Revolution to equate to the Ukraine even though they're not remotely similar. In almost any way.

Not relevant.
Not relevant? You understand the difference between the Colonies being official British Territory vs. the Ukraine being invaded by an outsider?

Of course the parallels exist.
No, they don't. The French were engaged in fighting, NATO is not. The French in fact were fighting the British on their own in the Americas and other places, NATO is not.

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