[Basket_of_Deplorables]

“Ukraine might be able to bankrupt Russia’s missile budget.”

They already bankrupted our missile budget. What a boondoggle for defense contracto. It’s their turn, after Big Pharma ate at the trough for 2 years.

Why not? It’s not Congress’s money, and it’s Free!

[Zhang Fei]

Ukraine ping

BasketofDeplorables: [They already bankrupted our missile budget.]

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You must be joking. We spent averaged $150b a year on Afghan and Iraqi operations in its first decade.

https://www.cbo.gov/system/files?file=2018-10/54219-oco_spending.pdf

What we’ve spent on Ukraine so far is pocket change. And they’re fighting the #2 power in the world in a high intensity war rather than a bunch of ragtag insurgents mounting desultory ambushes. The casualty numbers bear this out. ~20K Russian dead in just over 2 months vs ~10K insurgents per year in Afghanistan and Iraq combined, tops.