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1 posted on 02/04/2023 12:10:06 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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Central banks and a few other money managers can live off of the churn of money and stay ahead while everyone else slowly goes bust.

So there is one bunch.


2 posted on 02/04/2023 12:11:57 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Anyone who owns stock in Raytheon?


3 posted on 02/04/2023 12:13:20 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Plenty of people lining their pockets and the Military Industrial Complex.


4 posted on 02/04/2023 12:14:03 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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Prolonged = Effective


5 posted on 02/04/2023 12:14:15 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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Not us.


6 posted on 02/04/2023 12:15:27 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Hunter and Joe


7 posted on 02/04/2023 12:15:35 PM PST by sasquatch
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Who benefits from us helping Ukraine? We do

And they are not asking us to fight and die for them. They are willing to fight a super-power for their homeland. They just need weapons...


8 posted on 02/04/2023 12:20:56 PM PST by Sunsong
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Purpose is to wear down the Russian military.
Any country with nukes will not be invaded,
but adventurism is to be stopped in the next war.
keep in mind most people are fighting the last war not the next one. Putin is still fighting WW II and it didn’t work.
America did the same in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Y’all need to learn.
I’m not prescient, but I’d bet on
4GW and technology.


9 posted on 02/04/2023 12:22:19 PM PST by rellic
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10% to the big guy .....so there’s that


10 posted on 02/04/2023 12:23:08 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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The money launderers, and the Biden Crime Family. The recent revelation that Hunter sent an email to an American aluminum company, promising information on Russian oligarchs makes me wonder what service/classified information did he provide Elena Baturina, widow of former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, for the $3.5 million she wired him in early 2014?


13 posted on 02/04/2023 12:28:01 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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The author's argument falls apart from two false premises:

1) Putin favors a long war. Putin wants a quick victory. Regardless of who wins, a long war damages the Russian economy and creates instability in the Russian regime.

2) Putin's goals are limited to keeping Ukraine out of NATO. Putin's goal are more extensive than that. He wants, as a minimum, to turn Ukraine into a vassal state of Russia, and, at a maximum, to annex Ukraine into Russia to fulfill his goal of reuniting all of the Russian people (which he has stated includes the Ukrainians). Putin will never willingly accept a truly neutral and independent Ukraine that outside of Russia's "sphere of privileged influence."

14 posted on 02/04/2023 12:29:22 PM PST by Salohcin
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Who Benefits From Our Prolonged Financing Of The Ukraine War?

Just wait, when it ends, Ukraine will expect us to finance their reconstruction, and if Pedo Joe is in charge, we will!

But Hey, "The Big Guy" and Hunter will get BIG kickbacks!

17 posted on 02/04/2023 12:31:10 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Ultra MAGA in Biden's Post Constitutional United Socialist States of Amerika!)
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“an overly powerful military-industrial complex”

Nailed it.


20 posted on 02/04/2023 12:39:17 PM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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Deep States worldwide, including ours.


36 posted on 02/04/2023 1:27:12 PM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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There’s a lot of misinformation and more than a bit of hysteria concerning the cost of US transfers to Ukraine. The “cost” is the original equipment purchase price. Almost everything the US has sent so far, with a few exceptions has been equipment that was in storage and scheduled (Or soon to be scheduled) for decommissioning. For example, the Stinger missile has not been purchased in over twenty years. It had been updated periodically, as weapons in that particular not-in-use but not yet taken out of the inventory frequently are. Vehicles like the M113 or Bradly likewise were mothballed and would have been decommissioned at great expense. Instead, they were “given” (I think they actually used the Lend/Lease act meaning they will be billed to Ukraine at a later date.) In any case most of the items I’m aware of were scheduled for an expensive decommissioning or demilitarization process. Instead, they will be shipped off to Ukraine and the press will tout the fantastic numbers which reflect the original purchase price. Not, the present value.


52 posted on 02/04/2023 3:49:39 PM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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I almost care less about who’s benefiting. Because I know who’s suffering. That would be you and me, brother. And why there’s not mass National outrage about the whole thing is of great concern.


57 posted on 02/04/2023 4:14:07 PM PST by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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Most of the money we are spending “on Ukraine” is spent in the US. There is no open checkbook. Stopping the Russian-Iranian-Chinese alliance is in our interest


77 posted on 02/06/2023 10:29:48 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
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