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To: JonPreston
JonPreston: "Below lies the end result of your latest Neocon fever.
An entire generation of Ukranian men dead, and the US taxpayers $200bn in additional debt."

Total US aid to Ukraine -- military, humanitarian plus financial -- is currently put at circa $113 billion over about two years, roughly $55 billion per year or around 6% of our defense budget.
About half of our aid is old hardware which would have been scrapped soon anyway.
So our actual costs are far less than you claim here.

As for Ukrainian casualties, the numbers are indeed huge, but still far from "an entire generation".

Ukraine's adult population is circa 20 million, roughly half of them males, of course.
Of those, the US government estimates around 200,000 total casualties, including 70,000 killed in action.
That was as of August, after 18 months of war, today's numbers might be correspondingly more.

But the key fact which matters here is that Ukrainians all share a kindred spirit with our own Founders, especially Patrick Henry, most famous for declaring "give me liberty or give me death".

I'd say anyone who can't at least sympathize with them has some kind of sickness going on in their own souls.

Do you?

207 posted on 11/21/2023 9:13:29 AM PST by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: BroJoeK
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While the Biden administration is sending another $100 million to Ukraine, these old Ukrainian men are being 'motivated' to fight the Russian army.

Knowing that they will most likely die.....#UkraineWar #Ukraine️ #UkraineWar#ukrainecounteroffensive#lettertoamerica pic.twitter.com/8tzMifc2yf— Richard (@ricwe123) November 21, 2023


208 posted on 11/21/2023 1:20:46 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: BroJoeK

How the United States and Britain blocked peace in Ukraine. And they made a fatal mistakehttps://t.co/MwNgzAxtSQ— Prisoner16670  (@prisoner16670) November 22, 2023


209 posted on 11/22/2023 3:38:23 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: BroJoeK

Carlson: “US support for Ukraine is a cult of death”

American journalist Tucker Carlson said that the US administration’s desire to continue to support Ukraine is a “cult of death.”

"What it is? A conflict without hope of victory? Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen—she's… pic.twitter.com/NqKTjHAnox— Zlatti71 (@djuric_zlatko) November 23, 2023


210 posted on 11/23/2023 4:29:01 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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