(06-07-2023 11:26 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(06-07-2023 09:59 AM)natibeast2.0 Wrote:  

(06-07-2023 09:30 AM)BlueDragon Wrote:  

(06-07-2023 06:25 AM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  

(06-06-2023 07:37 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  We’ve sent 100 billion but I seriously doubt every penny went to the Ukraine government.

Maybe I’m being cynical but I don’t see McConnell, Schumer, Pelosi and McCarthy working together for anyone but themselves.

I would guess a lot of that money found its way back into the pockets of our politicians in DC.

Of course it did. That's all this entire "war" has been about. Apologies to the posters here I like that can't see this for what it is.

Definitely see it for what it is. Another proxy war where our Politicians get rich off blood money in the form of weapon sales. We have no desire to win just like Vietnam and Afghanistan and rub out the enemy because it ends the flow of money.

I've stopped even posting on threads related as the same posters have gone back in forth with the same conclusions.

99% were completely done with the mostly bs wars since the 60s the U.S. has been involved in but hey the Soviets are back!

You don't see the difference between sending hundreds of thousands of US soldiers and billions of dollars to Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq and sending only the dollars to Ukraine? And Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan were civil wars, not a full scale invasion.

Dear lord. There are clear cut differences in every specific war.

Like I said until a me/Shere or a you/AttackCoog have anything new to bring to the table with our opinions we’ve been through this enough. Carry on with your love affair of Ukraine and hatred of Soviets. I’ll watch what’s going on from a far just rooting for the darn thing to end.

Zero problem with funding a major drag on a totalitarian leaders army. Zero problem with massively degrading even more the Russian military. And even less problem with getting that result with the additional added bonuses of: ending for pretty much good the Russian expansion threat to Poland and Baltics; not having a NATO member in direct conflict: and last, but not least, strengthening the unity of NATO.

Finally, this plants the seed of the end if Putin's course inRussia and hopefully if Putin

And it sends a crystal clear message to China not to try the same pattern if acquisition by force of arms.

I'd have preferred this to not happen, but that wasn't a decision to be made by anyone but Putin.