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MAGA rages over report Pentagon exempting Ukraine from government shutdown
(www.newsweek.com)
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Call me old fashioned, but when I run out of money the first expense I cut is "funding my proxy war with Russia". But that's just me.
We're not out of money though, Republicans are just throwing a fit.
That's certainly a even more simple way to view things.
That's the liberal worldview. Anything with more than a Harry Potter-level of complexity melts their brains.
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Even with the most cynical and selfish geopolitical view, this is a great example of "penny wise pound foolish". How many Active Duty US military personnel have died in that conflict? Zero.
If Russia were allowed to conquer Ukraine, the western border of NATO would be Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, then Russia's next incursion into these nations would mean US military bodies in harms way. Today, the only thing we have to do is provide the weapons the USA spent over the last 70 years designed to defeat Russians to Ukrainians that will use them. This is the cheapest and most effective war is US history.
There are massive economic benefits to USA in the years ahead:
I will call you old fashioned, circa 1914. That isolation and non-interventionist idea in the USA made Europe spend at least 3 more years the decimation of WWI before the US got involved. WWII, where 291,557 American soldiers, sailors, and marines died, was a direct consequence of the long devastation of WWI. So when you're complaining about a war in Ukraine that we only have to pay a bill without spilling our blood, I call you short sighted.
Your money ideas are perfect for personal finance, however that same logic doesn't work at geopolitical scales.
This article is about continuing funding Ukraine during a government shut down, not backing out entirely or never funding Ukraine in the first place.
You're suggesting cutting funding to Ukraine. That conflict isn't a Netflix subscription you can put on pause for a month so that you can make your car payment. Planning and logistics on that level takes months. Cutting off funding would have drastic consequences.
That's a risk I'm willing to take. All the positive things you listed have already been accomplished anyway. Europe can clean up the crumbs without us.
Clearly. You'll join a long line of people before you making similar mistakes being “penny wise pound foolish”.
I'm concerned you aren't even able to exhibit capacity for your own personal self interest. If you think that Europe could take that hit without drastic hits to the USA, you're even more short sighted than I thought before. Those hits would drastically affect your daily life in the USA.
Glad you are willing to risk other peoples lives, family and freedom because of 5 shitbird Republicans who were going to vote no on any budget because their dear leader wants them to obstruct normal functions of government.
Thanks. Now ask me about my plan to make social security optional.
Or I could call you Boris or Natasha. Lol America doesn’t abandon our Allies the way Trump abandoned the Kurds as a gift to Russia.
Yes, any critique of america makes you Russian lol
I think the Afghans would like a word. Oh, they are dead.
Trump sold out the Afghans when he negotiated the Doha Agreement with the Taliban in Qatar in February 2020.
Trump handed Afghanistan over to the Taliban the same way he abandoned the Kurds in Syria
Lol sure. And biden was powerless.