Ukraine suffers on battlefield while pleading for US arms

The Washington Post via Stars and Stripes ^ | May 29th, 2022 | By Siobhán O’Grady, Paul Sonne, Max Bearak and Anastacia Galouchka

[Mariner]

Ukraine has not yet tired of endless bombardment.

They will soon, and collapse.

“They’re just raining down metal on us,” Lapa said. Nearby, a 25-year-old with his head wrapped in a bandage puffed on a cigarette. He goes by Koleh and had recently hit a mine, he said, although he didn’t know how exactly he ended up wounded.

Sievierodonetsk, he added, “is the worst.”

[neverevergiveup]

In a very real way, Soros is responsible for these deaths and injuries. He should be the first person on any front line.

[Theo]

Are we *selling* them arms? Or are we just giving them away for free? Plenty of wealthy people in Ukraine who could fund their own defense.

[Mariner]

The US taxpayer is providing them free of charge.

[cgbg]

Now that the Western mass media and politicians have led the Ukraine people to slaughter they have decided to admit it was a hopeless cause.

Too little, too late.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“You’ve reached the wrong # - call Europe.”

[blueunicorn6]

The Democrats must have done some really awful stuff in Ukraine.

[PGR88]

The US deep-state and neocons have been planning, probing and goading for this war for the last 20 years.

[McGruff]

[Spok]

A story on the FR said a third of the armaments sent to the Ukraine were already on the black market in Croatia. It’s like the situation in Palestine; Arafat didn’t make millions by selling his memoirs.

[Mariner]

There is no US MLRS coming.

And the 98 M-777 tubes are likely not on the eastern front. Though they may not mean much facing over 1,000 tubes from Russia.

[joma89]

Ukraine had 43 years to prepare for war. Not only did they stupidly give up nuclear weapons, they then wasted those 43 years and let their military atrophy.

[silverleaf]

Ukraine is selling its wheat to pay for weapons.

[Howie66]

Frankly, with all the support that the same people who want to infringe on our rights seem hell bent on supporting Ukraine, I have to say that I really don’t give a rip about what is happening there.

[silverleaf]

BIDEN.

Even if he is a senile old fool, the buck stops there.

[WASCWatch]

In retrospect, a war we should have never gotten involved with. Eventually Russian control of Ukraine will ultimately collapse at some point when the political winds shift. Poland did it peacefully; the Ukrainians can do the same once Putin is gone.

[Born in 1950]

The Deep State is not a reliable ally except to the narrative. Sorry for the dead, etc, but we needed to protect a few lies.

[Pollard]

The $40 billion was approved.

Time for narrative shift.

[Thunder90]

I think most western Ukranians would rather die than rejoin the Soviet Union.

[Mariner]

It’s likely the west will be spared this carnage.