Posted on 10/05/2022 4:54:10 PM PDT by Trump20162020
At this point, the United States has sent more than $17 billion in cash and military aid to Ukraine for that nation’s fight against the Russians. The United States has been far and away the largest, most generous patron of Ukraine’s government of any of the allies who are supporting this effort. But this has dragged on for quite a while now and it is long past time to begin seriously discussing the obvious question. How long are we supposed to keep this up? In fairly short order, the money we’ve sent to Ukraine will more than double the annual budget for the FBI. We’ve already given Ukraine more than five times the amount of aid we give to Israel each year, one of our closest and most important allies and one that exists in close proximity to multiple states that publicly proclaim their intention to drive them into the sea.
With all of that in mind, you are not a “pawn of Vladimir Putin” if you ask the government to explain what the long-term plan is and how much longer this will be sapping our resources and provoking our adversaries. The world is spiraling out of control at the moment and our continued firehose of advanced weapons and cash into Ukraine which they use to attack the Russians isn’t exactly enhancing our prospects of stability. Over at Defense One, analyst Erik Swabb takes a crack at this question and arrives at a depressing conclusion. In his opinion, even if the war ends or at least winds down to smaller and more infrequent skirmishes, we will need to continue funding Ukraine’s government and military forces for at least the next decade and potentially much longer. He begins by admitting that it is “fair” to ask this question.
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All this just to keep the lid on the Biden crime family.
Hopefully it ends this January. If not, more RINOs need to be primaried in 2024.
Don’t give that den of corruption one more US dollar!!
And Pelosi, and Kerry, and Romney, and probably numerous other traitorous US politicians. I am no fan of Putin and what he is doing, but no one will find me openly rooting for Ukraine because of the corruption. Sadly, far too many Freepers are waving the pom-poms for Ukraine.
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I’d like to solve the puzzle Pat!
Well, with the DEMs in control of the House and the Senate starting in January 2023, it won't be ending anytime soon.
Restore Ukraine as a nuclear power, which it voluntarily gave up in exchange for promises of protection from other nuclear powers. That would end a lot of mischief.
Ukraine has been an ally since the US-Ukraine Charter on Strategic Partnership was signed on December 19, 2008.
An updated version that gave Ukraine an unclear path to NATO membership was signed on November 10, 2021.
After the latter agreement was signed, Vlad started beating the “war drums.”
We’ll be “on the hook” for our Washington DC puppets in Kiev for a very long time.
10% of $17 billion is $1.7 billion, just sayin’.
Idiotic.
It will last as long as Libtards and their cohorts that vote with them are allowed to squander it away and launder for themselves
They were never a nuclear power. Russia had their nukes stationed there.
I’d rather let Putin take over the entire country before sending the Ukraine a single penny.
Hopefully, the Russians will end this nonsense and take the whole country over. That would certainly save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars.
“They were never a nuclear power. Russia had their nukes stationed there.”
Exactly.
BTW If they were left there, the Ukraine still wouldn’t have any nukes.
Every one of them would’ve been sold to the highest bidder on the international market.
Great idea if you want a nuclear war that includes US citizens as target.
There is NO national interest in Ukraine. Ukraine only interests our political elite and oligarchs that have made oodles of money there.
It's ridiculous idea to fight a proxy war there or do something like that and risk setting off a nuclear war or WWII.
I honestly don’t care about either country.
We have enough domestic issues to address.
So stupid to get involved. I used to say the Russians would be there like the US in Vietnam (advisors, training locals, a few troops, escaltion and then 20-25 years of Brer Rabbit tar pit misery.
But for the US to do it?
“Trick me twice, shame on me.”
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