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Why Do We Always Give the Russians a Warning?
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The main reason to publicize it all is to pressure other governments to also donate more. It's not like keeping it a secret would have a huge impact on the battlefield either, they'd find out soon enough the hard way, if not through intelligence gathering. (which they admittedly seem very poor at)
Partly that. It's also to help maintain a measured ladder of escalation. Russia crosses a line, the US responds, and then the next escalation is a separate decision. If Russia thinks it is crossing lines without a response, that would be bad and might lead to further escalation. If Russia thinks that the US is responding arbitrarily, that would also be bad and could lead to further escalation. Yeah, it sucks that the US always has to be the responsible one, but these days Russia's shtick seems to be that they don't care if the whole world burns if they don't get their way.