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What $61 Billion for Ukraine Won’t Do
The American Conservative ^ | April 24, 2024 | Ted Snider

Posted on 04/24/2024 2:01:32 PM PDT by Navy Patriot

There are five things the aid package will not do for Ukraine. It will not provide enough money. It will not provide the badly needed weapons, nor deliver them on time. It will not provide the even more badly needed troops. And it will not provide victory.

Though $61 billion is a massive amount of money, it is not massive enough to defeat Russia. Ukraine accomplished little but the loss of life and the most advanced weapons during its centerpiece counteroffensive when it was receiving even more.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; History
KEYWORDS: billymaximus; fishymaximus; killkillkillforpeace; mic; ukraine; ukraineaid; ukrainewar; welfarewar
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To: JonPreston

When both parties in Congress pressured him from handing Ukraine over to Russia, to supplying Ukraine.

I support America’s national security, freedom, morality, and the right to self defense. And Donald Trump.

You do not.


81 posted on 04/25/2024 5:22:43 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Williams

When you are WITH anger like this you remind me of Keith Olbermann.


82 posted on 04/25/2024 5:35:44 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Navy Patriot

“That Ukraine is a stepping stone in Russia’s march through Europe..”

I can’t believe that ANYONE with half a brain would believe this.

A guy (supposed SUPERPOWER) who can’t get through the Ukraine after 2-3 YEARS does NOT have “marching through Europe” or conquering the rest of the world in mind..

The ONLY American interests in the Ukraine are that several of our POLITICIANS have FINANCIAL interests there - period.


83 posted on 04/25/2024 7:09:37 AM PDT by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: Navy Patriot
Russia lost this war the moment they crossed the border into Ukraine.

Whatever damage Putin does to Ukraine comes with a disproportionate price tag of Russian lives and equipment lost on the battlefields. Those numbers are truly staggering!

Unless he stops his special little war, Putin’s going to bleed Russia to death day after day until there’s nothing left of Russia or what was once a promising Russian restart as a good neighbor and a great nation.

Russia will implode the same as the U.S.S.R. imploded and for the same reasons, too. Deja vu all over again.

The only thing of value Putin has accomplished is to show the world how an ego is a very expensive thing to maintain, especially Putin’s ego!

84 posted on 04/25/2024 7:51:33 AM PDT by GBA (Endeavor to persevere. Onward through the fog …)
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To: Williams
You're a blithering idiot if you think this aid package is going to make any difference whatsoever in this war or that it was intended to anything but drag the war until after the 2024 election in addition paying off the defense industry.

Ukrainians die, the defense industry thrives!

The globalist elite and their agenda are the gravest threat to this nation, not Russia. You either woefully ignorant if you don't understand that or lying because you benefit for that agenda.

Either way, you're despicable traitorous turd. You're the one projecting your own treasonous behavior on others.

And, look around here -- those that know that are in the VAST majority here.

Real conservative website -- Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, The Federalist -- were vehemently opposed to this aid package.

85 posted on 04/25/2024 11:00:09 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

Oh I see, you’re only bothered that UKRAINIANS will die. Well that’s very dishonest of you.

Too late ruskie, the aid passed and I can assure you Russians will die as a result. Maybe they better get out of Ukraine.

But I’m thoroughly enjoying your panick.


86 posted on 04/25/2024 4:49:36 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Williams
Of course, I'm bothered by that fact.

Ukrainians, you blithering idiot, have been dying since 2014 SO JOE BIDEN, GEORGE SOROS, THE CLINTONS, ROMNEY'S SON, PELOSI'S DAUGHTER and the defense industry can make $$$.

And, you're perfectly okay with that we fomented an illegal coup in 2014, empowered neo-Nazis, setoff a civil war and installed puppet government all so our disgusting, immoral elite could profit from it.

87 posted on 04/25/2024 9:06:18 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Williams
Too late ruskie, the aid passed and I can assure you Russians will die as a result.

Like Lindsey Graham, that's ALL you care about. You're consumed with ethnic hatred for Russians that is ever bit as vile as any form of racism or antisemitism. You're hate-filled psychopath and one sick motherfreeper.

The Russians, you sick SOB, repeatedly have sought peace -- with the Minsk Accords, by coming to us with their security concerns in 12/21 before the war started and in Turkey in March of 2022.

You're an embarrassment to the human race, an abomination to God and a danger to every American citizen. If left up to you, we'd be in WW III or a nuclear war.

But, you and your ilk want to keep the war going so more Russians die.

88 posted on 04/25/2024 9:12:12 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Williams
Too late ruskie, the aid passed and I can assure you Russians will die as a result.

And, I can assure you that Ukraine will lose everything east of the Dnieper river if this war continues, Odessa after that and eventually cease to exist if this war continues.

Not that you give a damn about Ukraine or Ukrainians. Ukrainians are just slabs of meat you and those with your mentality have to use to kill Russians.

I really believe you're mentally ill or demonically possessed.

89 posted on 04/25/2024 9:14:39 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

I have two reactions to your ranting.
Lol
Fu


90 posted on 04/25/2024 9:20:04 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Williams
Get back to me when you give damn about how this country is being torn apart as much as you care about Russians dying and defending the Ukraine hellhole.

There isn't one of these issues you care even a small amount as you do about destroying Russia or Russians dying. No, it's not normal and certainly not the mentality of a Trump supporter that loves his country:

1) Wipe out a 2,000 mile border. Allow 10-million foreign nationals to enter unlawfully. Have no audit of any; nullify all federal immigration laws. Let toxic drugs in that kill 100,000 Americans a year. Give free support for those millions who broke the law. Smear any objectors as racists and xenophobes.

2) Run up $35 trillion in national debt. Keep adding $1 trillion to it each 100 days. Defame anyone wishing to cut wild spending as cruel and inhumane.

3). Appease or subsidize enemies like Iran and China. Demonize allies like Israel. Allow terrorists to attack Americans without response. See Islam as either similar or superior to Christianity. Make amends to leftist governments for supposedly past toxic American international behavior. Follow the lead of international agencies like the UN, ICC, and WHO to atone forpast American neocolonial and imperialist behavior. Recede to second-tier international status, befitting American decline.

4) In a multiracial democracy, redefine identity only as one’s tribal affiliation. Ensure each identity group rivals the other for victimhood and the state spoils it confers. Redefine all political issues by race and sex oppressors and oppressed. Destroy all meritocratic standards of admission, retention, promotion, and commendation.

5) Redefine violent crime as understandable, cry-of-the-heart expressions of social justice. Ensure no bail and same-day release for arrested, repeat violent felons. Empathize with the violent killer and rapist; ignore their victims, especially if slain police-officers.

6). Emasculate the military by using non-meritocratic standards of race, gender, and sexual orientation to determine promotion and commendation. Deliberately smear as racists and insurrectionists the largest demographic in the military who in recent wars died at twice their numbers in the population—so that they leave or never join the military. Encourage retired high officers to slander their Commander-in-Chief. Cut the defense budget. Stop producing sufficient weapons, but leave billions of dollars’ worth of arms to terrorists.

7) Reinvent the justice system to indict, bankrupt, convict, jail and eliminate political opponents. Use ballot removal, impeachment, civil suits, and state and federal indictments rather than elections to defeat an opponent. Mob the homes of non-compliant Supreme Court Justices, attack them personally by name.

8) Encourage the fusion of the bureaucratic state with the electric media to form a powerful force for political audit, surveillance, censorship, and coercion. Marry the FBI to Silicon Valley and hire its contractors to warp the news and hound supposed enemies of the people.

9.) Make war on affordable gasoline and natural gas. Substitute inefficient, unreliable, and expensive wind and solar power, even as energy prices bankrupt the middle class.

10.) Marry late, but preferably not at all. Consider males toxic, especially boys. Have no children, or as few as possible. Otherwise, assure children they are entitled, and must be sheltered. Raise them to have grievances against past generations and current norms.

11.) Turn world-class universities into indoctrination centers. Suspend the Bill of Rights on campuses. Train youth to graduate despising their own culture and civilization. Recruit foreign students from hostile nations to subsidize campus commissarbloat. Replace the curriculum with therapeutic propaganda. Ban the SAT/ACT and do not evaluate high school GPAs. Ensure merit does not select the student body. Charge tuition higher than the rate of inflation. Bill the government when students default on their loans.

91 posted on 04/26/2024 10:34:35 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

Can you translate that back into the original Russian?

Didn’t read it and Ukraine still got the aid.


92 posted on 04/26/2024 10:57:15 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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