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Ukraine weapons package ‘ready to go’ once aid bill clears Congress
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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Why are we sending them equipment when they're going to lose?
So that they don't lose? Why do you think they are going to lose?
Because they are are fighting a better military.
And that automatically means that the larger military will win? Looking at Vietnam and Afghanistan ..
Yeah. Vietnam and afghanistan are identical to the war in Ukraine.
It's not like the US is on the other side of the world, or anything.
Nope. They're exactly the same.
Anything to avoid admitting Ukraine is going to lose and you've been taken for a ride 🤣
Lol, the tankers with egg carton “reactive armor” and conscripts without shoes? Better than whom?
Its June 1940. France has surrendered, the continent has fallen, and what remains of the British army has just evacuated from Dunkirk leaving all of its heavy equipment behind. At this stage of the war the British army is outnumbered at least 12-1 by an enemy that is infitely better equipped than it.
Should Britain have surrendered to the Nazis because they were losing to "a better army?".
I don't think they are going to lose. But at the very least it's good to negotiate from a position of power. IE a banks going to loan money to someone with a job vs a homeless dude..
Russia's war with Ukraine has done far more to weaken the Russian military than anything during the entire Cold War. Including the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
Why wouldn't America send Ukraine equipment?
That poor cannon fodder :(
I guess Putin shouldn't have chosen to invade Ukraine.
Why?
Then his military wouldn't be cannon fodder.
Looks like Ukrainians are cannon fodder for the West. Lol.
They're literally getting invaded by Russia in a defensive war for the very existence of their country. That's not "for the west".
Regardless, whether you look at it as a moral duty to the Ukrainian people, or as a self interested opportunity to protect Europe and weaken Russia, funding Ukraine is an efficient investment.
They would've surrendered by now if not for the belief they could win with western equipment.
Did you think they were going to take back Crimea? At what point do you acknowledge you may be a victim of propaganda?
Answer: never. Propaganda is only the tool of the enemy, always. Lol.
Funding Ukraine is an efficient investment for the west...
Might wanna brush up on your reading comprehension.
He says, predicting the outcome of a frozen, attritional war with total certainty
If the Ukrainians didn't think they had a chance they could win, they wouldn't be bothering to fight
Yes, funding Ukraine is an efficient investment for the west, but that doesn't mean that the Ukrainians fighting are doing so for the benefit of the west rather than themselves.
Well that's just not true - in fact the vast majority of propaganda is focused on their own sides lol
I'm not sure why you think that's funny.
Is that the sort of thing that makes you laugh? People dying?
I know right, those poor conscripted russians getting slaughtered on the frontline for Putin's imperialism
What about the poor conscripted Ukrainians getting slaughtered because they've been duped into thinking they can win?
You don't ever think about those, huh.
Welcome back with the new burner o/
Something a lot of US fascists asked in the first few years of WW2 when it came to arms shipments to Britain!