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The fact that you think there is no return in their alliance and trade is mightyfoolish
That's my point. I give you stuff for nearly free; this is what I want you to do with it.
We havent given anything. And they have given everything. Please tell me what you think that military spending was going to go towards if it wasn't spent on contracts to U.S. based companies as it has been... Because it can't, and would not ever be allowed to be used on anything domestic. The less than 90b we have dispersed would disappear into the more than $2.5T in military spending we have had since that time. It cannot be used for helping with food prices, house/rental prices, healthcare reform... anything locally. The fact that it has taken over 2.5+ years and we haven't dispersed HALF of what the Republican majority congress alloted for it, is frankly ridiculous.
That military funding would have been spent by the military, not giving raises either... Nope. Just vanished into contracts under different names and no one would have given a shit about it because it wasn't being called out by Russian appeasers on our U.S. news channels.
Never once did that Republican congress call to cut military spending. That's the only way that money would have went anywhere else.
Who is we and they in this case?
I can see that I took the wrong idea from the article. I thought Zelenskyy was asking for supplies from Germany, France, US, Italy, etc. and then telling them to keep quiet afterwards.
No, he's saying they can't speak on Ukraine's behalf. Countries can withhold aid if they so choose, but they can't say "Ukraine will surrender these grounds and forgive any reparations and allow you to build a demilitarized zone on their land if you stop where you are at" and expect Ukraine to just do so. It wasn't a deep statement by him, it was a statement of if you want an agreement with Ukraine, you need to make it with Ukraine, stop trying to discuss deals behind their back and expecting them to honor them.