It's never been about the money.
The Republicans and their grifters want Putin to win. It's just that simple.
And they want more tax cuts (until barely anything can be funded).
It looks to me like this war is pretty cheap on both American lives, and on the American taxpayers' pocketbook.
It's almost like the real reason they are against aid for Ukraine is that they just parrot whatever their media outlets put out, and they put out being against aid for Ukraine because they want Russia to win and they want lower taxes and reduced regulation for themselves. It's almost like conservatives are really fucking gullible so long as you pretend you're on their side and point at somebody for them to blame.
The weirdest part to me is how “support the troops” is always a priority for most in the group opposing Ukrainian support. In fact, military support is usually so critical that they can set aside many of their primary targets of small government and fiscal responsibility.
I get that this isn’t the “our” troops they usually chant about, but it easily could be, especially if Russia continues its aggressive action. It doesn’t seem that it’s that hard to understand that if you’re willing to give the US military nearly a trillion dollars, it isn’t a bad idea to give support to a country actively fighting against this threat.
I guess it really does just come down to people convinced that Russia is somehow not a threat to the US, even though the leaders of “our troops” feel differently.
And pretty profitable for the military complex which finally is used for a good cause. Didn't these republicans receive their yearly lobby cheque?
"The war is cheap in terms of American lives" is a right wing, nationalist sentiment. "American" lives dont have any more value than any other lives.
Sure, but the American government's entire point is to collect American taxes and provide benefits for Americans. To minimize monetary cost and maximize benefit to American lives is exactly what it should be doing.
Wait, are you telling me that nations are oriented around nationalism?
This is why I'm for stateless global communism
Your current crop of Republicans don't really care about the US or American values - they want to live in a Margaret Attwood novel.
“It’s not rape if it’s for America”
Any Republican against giving aid to Ukraine is essentially a Russian asset.
You spelled ass-hat wrong
It's the same picture
The war is cheap in all terms (expect Ukrainian's). I believe most of the dollar numbers you see includes equipment value when they were going to be scrapped anyway. The accountants have to give it a fair dollar value, but in practical terms it's zero.
One has to be a truly deplorable piece of human garbage to say “The war is cheap in terms of American lives”. This is basically an admission that Americans don't give a fuck about the lives of Ukrainians and re cynically using them as a proxy to fight Russia. Americans continue to expose themselves as the scum of the earth that they are.
Don't care about them? We have donated BILLIONS in equipment
Yeah to try and advance your own geopolitical position. The actions of your regime resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and a whole country being destroyed all so you chuds could try and weaken Russia in some way. You are utterly deplorable.
I guess you mean Russia had no choice but to attack Ukraine? Because of the US/NATO? If so could you explain the reasoning behind this please? I genuinely don't understand this argument. Seems to me that this war is really detrimental to the Russian people, and they absolutely would have been better off not waging it.
The war happened because NATO kept expanding eastwards. Stoltenberg has now publicly acknowledged that Putin made clear to NATO in a draft treaty before the war that it could avert it if NATO agreed not to keep enlarging. But NATO rejected the offer.
Then lastly on Sweden. First of all, it is historic that now Finland is member of the Alliance. And we have to remember the background. The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement. That was what he sent us. And was a pre-condition for not invade Ukraine. Of course we didn't sign that.
The opposite happened. He wanted us to sign that promise, never to enlarge NATO. He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe, we should remove NATO from that part of our Alliance, introducing some kind of B, or second class membership. We rejected that.
Yeah sorry but that doesn't make any sense to me.
I get that Putin hates NATO, and that NATO expansion weakens his foreign influence. So he... invades Ukraine? Which is officially the precise reason why Finland pulled the trigger and joined NATO.
So I still have the same questions: How does the war benefit the Russian people? How is it a good response to NATO expansion? And what would have happened to Russia if Putin didn't declare war? Would it have been worse than global economic sanctions and Finland joining NATO (not to mention the cost of war itself)?
Crazy idea, how about we have a few years where we aren't involved in some war?
Wouldn't it be nice if all these tyrants like Putin would just stay in their own homes...?
If only it were that simple to look the other way from your neighbor getting attacked and raped.
As if such persons ever stop after their first successful house...
That's right america, go help people kill eachother already!!!
Russia’s welcome to leave any time.
I absolutely love any Russian conscript brave enough to desert, and wish them the best.
The rest can die in a ditch, like the gullible tools of fascism their grandparents once fought themselves.
They're defending from an invasion that Russia could stop whenever they want.
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