I frame it differently: It's a Russia problem.
The world's Russia problem.
And the Ukrainians are solving it for us.
E.g.: Every time the Russians aim a rocket at a Ukrainian residential area, school, or orphanage, and possibly suffer a misfire - there's one less rocket the Russians have in their arsenal.
Every Russian tank that gets bogged down in the rasputitsa and has to be abandoned - that's one less Russian tank that we, the Free World, have to worry about.
The Russians are currently undergoing the biggest unilateral disarmament program since WW II. Their armies are being eviscerated. Their tank divisions are being emasculated. Their stockpiles of high-tech weaponry are being depleted. Their capital ships are being sunk. Their soldiers and sailors are being demoralized. The Russian leadership is being humiliated on the world stage.
The aid we're giving the Ukrainians to keep that process of disarmament and demilitarization going is money well spent. It is costing us chump change. And it would be madness for us to interrupt that process prematurely.
Do you dispute that?
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And the Ukrainians are solving it for us....
Their armies are being eviscerated. Their tank divisions are being emasculated. Their stockpiles of high-tech weaponry are being depleted. Their capital ships are being sunk. Their soldiers and sailors are being demoralized. The Russian leadership is being humiliated on the world stage. The aid we’re giving the Ukrainians to keep that process of disarmament and demilitarization going is money well spent. It is costing us chump change. And it would be madness for us to interrupt that process prematurely.
***I really hate to agree with Biden but... money well spent.
Yes. Who’s “us?” The US is ponying the $40B. It’s chump change to the folks spending US taxpayer money, I guess, but not to me.
If Russia is the world’s problem, it’d be a refreshing change if the rest of the world took the lead in solving it. I don’t see any states stepping up. Not without committing the US front and center, too.
The US alone spent trillions further into debt in a fruitless effort to stop Covid. And we were in staggering debt before that for other reasons. I don’t trust our leadership to spend $40B in “chump change” (that we don’t really have) to arm anyone without graft, mismanagement, and waste.