If you're trying to suggest it's some kind of "narrative" you need to stop and look at the fact that Russia had to lean on Iran, North Korea and others to help supply them. That wasn't happening at the beginning of the war, was it. (No, it wasn't). There are also numerous expert analyses including knowledgeable, accurate and reliable Russian milbloggers who have admitted and acknowledged Russian production can't keep pace, that Russia has been having to buy ammunition from elsewhere, and that many key Russian stockpiles have been destroyed by Ukraine, now to also include the ones newly replenished with weapons and ammo from North Korea and Iran. Or that many of the stockpiles have been confirmed as destroyed by satellite imagery. I can't imagine what it must be like to be a pro-Russian poster with their head stuck in the sand to try and deny all of this. |
There we go. ANOTHER 20 Billion.
US Plans To Contribute $20 Bn For Ukraine Loan: Yellen The United States plans to contribute $20 billion to a G7 loan package for Ukraine and could soon announce new sanctions targeting Russian weapons procurement, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Tuesday. "We're very close to finalizing America's portion of this $50 billion loan package," she told a press conference, as world financial leaders gather in Washington for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. G7 leaders are close to finalizing the plan, with policymakers set to meet later this week. https://www.barrons.com/news/us-to-impose-strong-new-sanctions-aimed-at-russia-yellen-349e0394 |
Good. |
| It is good. Better than spending the money on vouchers to religious home schools or whatever the fk backward policy the republicans would otherwise fund with the money. |
| Im still holding my breath. WOW I wonder what all these billions could do abroad our own country. |
These billions make the entire world safer for Americans. Money well spent. |
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Ew, it’s the bloodthirsty boomercon again. You pop up every time this thread is on life support.
Ukrainian lives don’t matter and apparently neither does their country’s sovereign wealth of critical minerals. You must own some BlackRock and Monsanto too. https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-military-manpower-crisis-pressgang-recruitment/33161193.html Those forced conscription clips are tragic. Never any diplomacy happening but plenty of signed bombs. Theatre of the absurd |
And it's just a tiny percentage of our DoD budget that we would have been spending anyhow. Plus we can use up our old stock and old supplies from the 1990s and earlier before it just rusts to pieces. |
Ah yes - forced conscription, as if that hasn't been happening across Russia. Russia has been rounding up its prison inmates, many of its various indigenous non-Slav populace and other "undesirables" to send into the meat grinder and now North Korea is sending its surplus population to the meat grinder. Yet you want to wag your finger at Ukraine and the US and ignore that. Tsk, tsk. |
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lol, ok Elmo, than why is Russia producing 3x shells than US? All you care about are the returns you’re getting from your defense stocks.
Ukraine is a demographic disaster with an entire generation of young men dead and you’re bleating about the benefits of using up old stock and supplies. Bloodthirsty and money-hungry is never a good look. |
| I support Ukraine and I’m happy that we’re giving them some money and supplies, and frankly I think we should probably just let them use our weapons to strike all military targets in Russia no matter how “deep” they are, but can someone please explain to me why we’re giving more $$$ than countries like Germany and France who are much closer? We’re on the other side of the world and I doubt the leaders in Europe are giving much to support Latin American countries like we do. Like I said, I’m happy to give some, but I feel like what we give should be (in absolute terms) far less than what countries in Europe are giving. And yes if that means European countries need to scale back their social welfare programs or other domestic spending in order to pay for it or go into debt then that’s what they should do. There should be more responsibility to look after the situation in your own backyard. We’re not the blank check for the entire world, especially when our government is increasing our already insanely high debt in order to pay for it. |
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diplomatic talks now
cease fire now |
We pay for it because we're the only ones that want this war. Everyone else wanted business as usual with Russia to come back ASAP. So much so that we, er someone, had to blow those pipes to Germany to keep them from getting any ideas. Whatever European enthusiasm for the war there was, has largely burnt out. Ukraine is pretty much out of men now anyway, so it doesn't really matter what we send them. |
An obscure example in support of that: at a recently wrapped up Global Book Exhibition and Fair in Frankfurt, Russia could no longer participate as an official delegation, yet they sent one general interest publishing house, and three children literature ones, and all were booked solid with agent meetings and negotiations all day long. Because business is ready to do business just as soon as it can. |