Posted on 03/31/2024 11:23:44 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Two years after Russia invaded, Ukrainian forces are outgunned. Russia has a 6-to-1 ammunition advantage along the front lines. If this persists, Vladimir Putin’s ambitions will become a reality.
The imbalance in weapons supplies is a major failure of Ukraine’s allies in the West. North Korea delivered as much artillery ammunition to Russia in one month as the European Union has been able to deliver to Ukraine in one year. Russia produces three million shells a year, while the U.S. and Europe combined are able to produce only 1.2 million for Kyiv. Despite the vast economic might of the democratic world, we are being outproduced by an arsenal of autocracy in Russia, Iran and North Korea.
If Western allies don’t immediately ramp up the supply of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine, the future will be bleak. If Mr. Putin isn’t stopped in Ukraine, it will mean decades of instability and conflict in Europe. We need to wake up to that danger and put our economies on a war footing.
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And, we promised the Russians no eastward expansion of NATO and not only expand to their borders, we fomented an illegal coup in Ukraine that installed a puppet government hostile to Russia and the ethnic Russian population in Ukraine.
Stop pretending this is about honor and ethics. We lost the moral high ground in 2014 if not earlier.
You'll need Unicorns to crap cellulose.
Interestingly, newspapers are not required to explain their activities.
One would think there is an inside deal for them.
Bidenskyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy can kill two birds with one stone by making the “Illegal’s Pathway to U.S. Citizenship with the Free Little Flag” an 18 month tour in the Unkraine pushing back the Russian invaders. Joe Pedo can make his buddie Mr. Z happy, the illegals will learn that it’s not nice to invade someone else’s country to make it your own and Mr. Z can give Bidenskyyyyyyyy a good long man crush bear hug.
Russia didn't have to be our enemy. We made them our enemy.
Two Words: Monroe Doctrine
Start WWIII before the election — to make the world safe for “democracy”.
LOL, you and raging nastiness.
No. Simply no.
America SHOULD ramp up the manufacture of weapons and ammunition for OUR OWN military and to protect America, especially America’s borders.
Meanwhile, the ice cream cone licker in chief left $85 billion in weapons behind in Afghanistan and sent billions of dollars in American weapons to Ukraine, weapons that we need here at home to defend OUR homeland.
A Memorandum isn’t a Treaty.
Ring us up when the EU puts down their wine glasses and starts caring.
“The neocons and their evil war mongering plans are the danger we need to wake up to.”
Even Eisenhower couldn’t rouse the US electorate to this & I don’t see anything causing a change that would avert the current inertia in favor of the MIC. The election is likely too late, IMO.
John Bolton is waxing his ‘stache with napalm.
By design?
Why would Russia do that?
My argument with your comment is that we were the patriots who signed up to serve our country and were deployed into combat in the service of our country while others were either not fit, had the capacity to serve their country or pursued other careers. I have no qualms about the ones who pursued other careers. But to say that those who then moved on post their military service to have to go to war again for the only reason they work/worked for a military contractor is reprehensible. Veterans to tend to gravitate towards those places with fellow veterans as there is a common bond the civilians will never understand.
War is always great for personal liberty. Nobody but our warmongering leaders in DC, London, and Brussels want war. No people anywhere want it. But they need a big distraction because of the way they’ve destroyed our economy and our liberties.
No, it doesn’t. A memorandum does not have a force of a treaty. Furthermore, the Budapest memo was very clear that we were not supposed to assert our dominance there either. More importantly the government of Ukraine that was party to that was dissolved in 2014 when it was overthrown by a Nazi putsch.
Last but not least, when the Nazi forces from western Ukraine attacked Russian speakers in the east to bring them under the control of the coup government, under United Nations rules, Russia was free to act. Duty to protect.
Russia has the same legitimacy for her military action that ours did in Syria does, that ours in Kosovo did, or ours in Libya did.
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