Quick! Someone find out if trump will give a shit. Report back here with your findings.
Fuck off, Zelensky; Russians are white. We need that money to kill brown fuckers
This issue is a great example of the insane double think that most of Europe has about the US. We are too involved in world affairs until someone needs to take military action and then all of a sudden we're the only ones who can address it. Ukraine is your neighbor, not ours. You should be the ones funding Ukraine's defense because if you don't Russia is on your doorstep. Ukraine should have so much money that it doesn't matter what the US does but instead all of Europe is looking on like "it's a shame a country on the other side of the world isn't doing enough to stop this".
Edit: lots of people proving my point for me below. Downvote if you like but Europe is gonna have to step up or watch Ukraine fall. There isn't a third option no matter how much you wish there was.
It doesn't help that the US spends an 'OBSCENE' amount of money on their military for their own internal workings.
It's hard for any NATO member to justify more spending of their GDP.
When everyone decides to build 2/tanks per cycle.. and yet one entity is just pissing out 20/tanks per cycle,
There's so much oversupply in general, why would anyone else increase their output to 3/tanks?
stretch that out over 50 years, and that's where we are today.
I'll give you an angry upvote on this one.
I agree that the EU should do better and be independent from the US. But I still think the US should keep helping out, or at least present a plan for its decreased support over time so that the EU has time to pick up the slack.
Just suddenly pulling funding is more supporting Putin than it is "changing to America first interests".
Ukraine is your neighbor, not ours.
So what's your government doing here?
Sadly there is no if. To me it looks like the EU and US want to make the war as expensive as possible for Russia. Their aim is not to strengthen Ukraine to the point where they can win. (I don't know if out of fear from russia's nuclear weapons or if there simply isn't enough political support for more help.)
Ukraine losing, is also exactly the story which Russia wants the world to see and believe in. Hence their inhumane warfare.
That must be hard for the people in Ukraine. I wouldn't be very grateful for this kind of support if I were in their position. Rn it just prolongs the war.
The actual sad truth is that unless the Russian people turn on Putin or it turns into their next Afghanistan, there is no path to victory for Ukraine. Russia is larger with more people and more resources. It may be extremely painful but they will win in the end if the war goes on long enough. That's why NATO is treating Ukraine as a way to bleed Russia. The best case scenario is to turn it into a version of Afghanistan, so expensive in money and manpower that Russia is forced to leave. The next best scenario is to bleed Russia and destroy enough infrastructure in Ukraine that Russia cannot use it as a base of operations into Europe, cannot make use of it's industrial capacity, and cannot sustain a military campaign until the next generation is old enough to rebuild the Russian military.
A negotiated peace where Russia gets to keep Eastern Ukraine and start again in a couple years is the worst possible scenario as far as NATO is concerned. It will cause an arms race, and it allows Russia to absorb it's losses (economic, material, and manpower) in a way that avoids critical problems.
Ukraine is in a horrible spot between two giants, one is despicable and the other is willing to defend itself with the utilitarian moral guide of the ends justifying the means.
Just a note, it's "Ukraine" not "the Ukraine".
In my first language, German, using an article for a country is usually a deterogatory leftover from colonial speech, unless it refers to Unions like the US or the UAE.
Thanks. Fixed it.
A Russian defeat would again deprive NATO of purpose.
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