The world needs a Ukrainian vicory so that the American taxpayers can continue to be used as a mined resource for international conflicts in the future!!
A loss would show that America doesn’t have to stick their nose and credit card in every war on the planet, because the American public will no longer guarantee support!!
Especially in countries where American politicians are using their corruption to siphon off monies for their kids to work as BS, overpaid, unqualified corporate board members of the type of companies which those same politicians rail against in the American press as evil fossil fuel, climate-change causing killers of the planet!!
We are paying to keep the war going to hide the ongoing corruption of dozens, if not hundreds, of world political leaders...the loss of lives and territory to those New World Order wannabes don’t mean spit!!
We have given 5% of our DEFENSE Budget. As Snyder has pointed out that amounts to a ‘rounding error’
if putin succeeds in taking Ukraine, he won’t stop there...
Note that the direct benefits to the USA are
1. The USA prevents a larger war in which US troops may get wounded or killed.
2. By preventing this, the USA also saves money — $60 billion in surplus weaponry is far lower than if the US military was directly involved.
3. The US also saves markets that buy US products
4. This war is an eye-opener to Xi Jinping — he is not going to launch any military attack on Taiwan anytime in this decade. I expect he will shift to economic and diplomatic attacks.
5. This also sends a message to anyone trying to conquer territory == the message is “don’t”
6. the US alliance is strengthened — I live in Poland and recently visited Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany and the approval rating of the USA is going sky-high. The Poles always knew and now the Western Europeans realize again that the USA is indispensable.
Sorry, but political corruption is a matter of local country law enforcement, which waxes & wanes depending on election results.
In the grand scheme, normal political corruption is the equivalent of jaywalking, compared to murder in an unprovoked invasion and war of extermination against a weaker nation.
When Russian soldiers set foot invading Ukraine, they become moral orcs, beasts, only fit to die, or surrender or get the h*ll back to Russia, as soon as possible.
If such beasts are allowed to conquer and rule over Ukraine, it will be a crime against humanity of Hitlerian proportions.
None of this has anything to do with how many western politicians are, or are not, "corrupt".
Post 4. Spot on.
I don’t understand why more people don’t see it. It’s so obvious.