A very enlightening post, comrade. |
“Foreign aid is stealing money from poor people in rich countries, and giving it to rich people in poor countries.”
- Ron Paul |
Thank you for this hot-take. You either read a lot of comic books or are a 3+ star. NATO simply doesn't produce enough to degrade Russia significantly. The US only made 55 Tomahawks last year, and fired 80+ at the Houthi in one day. That was a year+ of production to take out a few sheds and trucks. Also since my first post, the US had this happen: https://theaviationist.com/2024/02/13/f-35c-nose-landing-gear-collapse-while-parked/ https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/02/12/utah-national-guard-helicopter/ |
Yes, the Russian Oligarchs and Ukrainian Oligarchs were one and the same. Paul Manafort did their bidding. It wasn't an accident that he was Trump's campaign manager. The current Ukrainian leadership is not cut from that cloth. That was the whole thing about removing the previous Solicitor when Biden was VP - Ukraine has been trying to get out from under Russia's yoke. Russia is upset about it hence the invasion, first Crimea, then Donbas then Feb 2023. To suggest they are still aligned is simply ludacrious. |
What th f are you blathering about? At least talk about system that will be used in the Ukraine. The US has over 4,000 Tomahawk missiles and the tomahawk is used on ships. The Ukraine does not have a navy and can not deploy Tomahawk. The US has given a small number of ATACMS to the Ukrainians. ATACMS remains in full-rate production at Lockheed Martin. The company makes “about 500 per year,” a spokesman told The Washington Post in July. This number can easily be increased. |
Russia has ALREADY been degraded significantly. Do you know how many helicopters they've lost? How about naval vessels? Or tanks? It'll take decades to replace it all. That's why they go to NK to beg for artillery ammo to continue their strategically-simple battle tactic. |
In case this is a more appropriate thread for this post. Heather Cox Richardson had a piece on bipartisan efforts to help Ukraine resist Russian aggression which are being stalled by Trump's MAGA wing:
"The Senate passed a $95 billion national security supplemental bill, providing funding for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and humanitarian aid to Gaza. Most of the money in the measure will stay in the United States, paying defense contractors to restock the matériel the U.S. sends to Ukraine. The vote was 70–29 and was strongly bipartisan. Twenty-two Republicans joined Democrats in support of the bill, overcoming the opposition of far-right Republicans. The measure went to the House of Representatives, where House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he will not take it up, even though his far-right supporters acknowledged that a majority of the representatives supported it and that if it did come to the floor, it would pass. Yesterday, House Intelligence Committee chair Mike Turner (R-OH)—who had just returned from his third trip to Ukraine, where he told President Volodymyr Zelensky that reinforcements were coming—told Politico’s Rachel Bade: “We have to get this done…. This is no longer an issue of, ‘When do we support Ukraine?’ If we do not move, this will be abandoning Ukraine.” “The speaker will need to bring it to the floor,” Turner said. “You’re either for or against the authoritarian governments invading democratic countries.… You’re either for or against the killing of innocent civilians. You’re either for or against Russia reconstituting the Soviet Union.” Today, Biden spoke to the press to “call on the Speaker to let the full House speak its mind and not allow a minority of the most extreme voices in the House to block this bill even from being voted on—even from being voted on. This is a critical act for the House to move. It needs to move.”: More at: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-13-2024 |
If the speaker lets a vote happen he will be removed. |
Makes sense +1 |
Yawn. Wake me up when you have something substantial to say! Meanwhile enjoy believing in people of (insert any post Soviet former republic here) fighting for democracy lol |
Yeah right not cut from that cloth. This is just something that’s being fed to gullible westerners, sorry. We are ALL from the former USSR and pretty much the same, for better or worse. Same with the guys in power. Honestly this is a hopeless region in terms of being a western democracy. However it can’t just be obliterated (which I am happy about), so the choices are two: to coexist in mutual respect (and leave their/our affairs to them) or to try and weaken the region while extracting most of the resources (the current approach). |
DP. Thank you for saying this much better than I would. I am not “pro” Israel or Russia or Ukraine or Palestine. I’ve been watching this from afar so to speak and I am amazed at the hypocrisy. I’ve tried to voice it on Gaza thread and Ukraine thread but all I get is being called a Russian troll. Not even a Gaza troll lol |
I have been called the same (pro Russia, , Hamas) for posing the same questions. Putin invaded Crimea in 2014 so this Ukraine war is nothing new but the difference is back then the scam for money didn’t work. Obama had similar isolationist instincts as Trump actually. He’s more similar in foreign policy to Trump than to Biden and was also strict on immigration and the law breakers/border hoppers like Trump . He didn’t care much about Ukraine . He just did the bare minimum as he should’ve . Biden and Hillary have the same ideas like former Pres Bush about promoting democracy and freedom and shovelling our money to do so. It’s a sham and we wasted millions in Afghanistan promoting democracy only for the Taliban to win . We get what we deserve with our naive world view of exporting American exceptionalism and “democracy” to places as if it can be served with a wide slotted spoon. It doesn’t work that way Obama said his biggest regret was listening to those 2 (Hillary and Biden) and killing Gaddafi. I found that telling that he’d admit that. Look at the mess in Libya and migration crisis to Italy/Europe thet caused that’s still going on. Libya was the richest and most stable country in Africa, as big a tourist hub as Egypt or Morrocco , with the strongest currency and now it’s gone from sugar to shit We need to worry about what’s going on here |
I can't wait for my kids to go to college so I can move from this sinking country. I swear that in another decade, this country will be in ruin.
Domestically, our politics are dividing us. Economically, the wider the gap in income and national debt will give way to violence, crime, general chaos. Government wise, our stuff is already messy with immigration and health care issues, we will only be more of a mess. Foreign policy wise, I'm not as confident that we'll be number 1 or 2 even because we'll be so weak domestically. Let's face it folks - if it wasn't that we were known as a "superpower" in the world, taken into consideration the strength of our country on a domestic level, we are definitely not even top 10 globally. And the days of having 1 or 2 "superpowers" is not really how things are anymore. Globalization is about partnerships and the world is more complex. |