[Zhang Fei]

BenLurkin:

That's what war is - the flushing of cash down the toilet. Unfortunately, as long as Russia stays inside Ukraine, we'll have to keep up with Russia's burning of moderate piles of cash. Given the 20 to 1 disparity in economic heft between the combined EU and US economies, It's likely the Western powers supplying Ukraine can keep it up long enough to see the last of the Russian presence in Ukraine. The US spent $1T in Afghanistan over 20 years to chase a ragtag bunch of guerrillas around the deserts and mountains of Afghanistan. If that amount of money sends Russia back to its corner for a couple of decades, it will have been money well-spent. After all, Russian imperialism, formerly wrapped up in a red costume, is why NATO came into being in the first place.

[kiryandil]

Given the 20 to 1 disparity in economic heft between the combined EU and US economies, It's likely the Western powers supplying Ukraine can keep it up long enough to see the last of the Russian presence in Ukraine.

Emmanuel Todd begs to differ:

https://unherd.com/thepost/emmanuel-todd-world-war-iii-has-already-begun/

The neoclowns in DC have blundered into an existential La Brea tar pit in the Ukraine.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Unfortunately, as long as Russia stays inside Ukraine, we’ll have to keep up with Russia’s burning of moderate piles of cash.

“Unfortunately”...??? What the fresh hell is that horse crap. WHY? Why is it OUR problem? There are four hundred and fifty million Euroweenies. Their GDP is seventeen trillion to our twenty-three trillion. (Wherever the hell did you get that asinine “20 to 1 disparity in economic heft” nonsense? Pull it out of your ass, did you? More like one-to-one.)

Those sorry, greedy euro SOBs have done nothing but TAKE, TAKE and TAKE SOME MORE, ever since we bailed their sorry asses out in WWII. Do they want to “free Ukraine” so it can get back to making porn, and business deals with Biden? THEN LET THEM PAY.

We’re broke. And out of HIMARS, too.