Make up your mind. You don't get to decide which facts matter and which don't. Every fact you've thrown out has been devoid of the critical context

That's 100% accurate, yes. What I'm saying is, I'm doing that now because you derisively rejected the idea of putting things in numerical context, or testing the overall picture against overall data. I'm glad you're up to speed on what a waste of time it is to throw individual data points, in any number, at each other without context. Glad we're agreed on it now.

It hasn't done so because it has no international legal basis for doing so, and if they did it would open up precedent for retaliation by every colonized country in the world to seize US assets.

What was the international legal basis for keeping the planes?

Honestly, don't answer that. I think the point is either made or it isn't. I probably won't continue after this; like I say, I think this style of argumentation is mostly a waste of time.

If I'm being real honest, I think you just like arguing. This whole thing started again when I came in more or less agreeing with you on a topic we should be roughly on the same side of, but you clearly don't want that -- I think you just want someone to play to role of your enemy so you can be hostile at them. That's why you immediately abandoned the conversation about the atrocities in Gaza, when you got agreement about genocide against the Palestinians, and started coming back to Ukraine, so you can go on with yelling at me.

I kind of tried it out, like hey let me throw some zingers in about the Russians, but the whole thing feels stupid. I don't know man. I'm just a person making sense of the world, and I like talking with people with all kinds of different points of view. If all you're interested in is, well, this, then I'm not into it.