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The aid is in the form of outdated, surplus military equipment that was scheduled to be replaced anyways. The alternative is paying a company to dispose of them. So why don't you want to send this aid to Ukraine where it can be used? The only people that should have any problem with this are those who are busy sucking Putin's knob.
Or people who don't know anything about what you said because the media just acts like the bill steals money from us to give to them instead
You answered your own question!
A lot of that equipment would've just gone back for rework and upgrades. Just because they're old doesn't mean they don't work. That narrative was intended to force the US to by new more expensive hardware instead of repairing what we already have. Now that the old stuff is shipped out there's a demand for new builds.
We will only give Ukraine just enough to prolong the war as long as possible. This war means trillions of dollars in sales if it goes on long enough. I bet the US can stretch it up to ten years if they play the same right. And all the while, Ukraine will be bombed to shit, waiting for the US mega corporations to make more money on the reconstruction efforts. They just need to make sure Putin stays in power or the whole scheme falls apart.
So your idea is to let Russia steamroll Ukraine in which Ukraine will still be bombed to shit? Yeah you're a fucking bootlicker.
The best idea is to force a peace treaty. Tell Putin he can have the land he's captured if the war ends now. Better to let him take that land than wait until Russian military gets back into Kiev again or other more populous cities in the West. He'll feel like he's won and the killing will end. Otherwise there will be no end. Putin will never give up unless the Russian people put his head on a pike. Even if Ukraine somehow manages to push Russian troops back to their borders, the war doesn't end there and Ukraine isn't going to conquer Russia.
Your solution to a tyrant is to... appease the tyrant? Fuck off.
The other solution is Ukraine becoming the next Afghanistan
I hope your country gets invaded and you use this same diplomacy you're using for Ukraine. Spineless bitch.
Well, if my country was being invaded I'd probably just leave. Ukrainians have that ability. It's not like Palestine where they literally can't leave.
Keep sucking Putins dick.
Just keep gobbling up that imperialist propaganda. Thinking for yourself is too hard anyways.
Ironic.
Yer brains are rotten. They spoiled from all the exposure to dumb shit. You got no argument left in you. Stop supporting forever wars.
Once again, ironic.
You would say that.
I would like to point out that russia is fine with this war otherwise they wouldn't have started it. Politicians and government use wars as a tool to get more power and enrich themself which is pretty much what is happening right now too
Russia isn't necessarily fine with it just because they started it. After all, they seized Crimea back in 2014 and got away with it without a fight. Russia also made a push to capture Ukraine's government in a matter of days at the start, which they wouldn't have done if they didn't think there was a chance of it succeeding. It's very possible that Russia expected this to be over quickly and based its decision on that expectation
If they are able to bribe 112 US government figures i believe they also weighted in the option that the invasion of a full ass country they have been at war since 2014 could have last more than 3 days