I’m a Brit and I wholeheartedly approve of MY money being spent on trashing Russia’s war machine.
The cheap ass penny pinching gippo moron squad with the “Ukraine is winning so let’s stop funding them” would’ve been a bundle of joy in world war 2. The minute the Nazis started retreating into they’d have all sodded off home saying “Mission Accomplished!”.
America made decades of profit and benefited from decades of soft power because America understood that there was nothing in it for America to let Nazis and the Soviets take over Europe... And everything to gain from propping up the resistance to both.
The people who want Ukraine to lose to Russia are literally arguing to weaken the USA and put it at serious risk of a two pronged attack from Russia and China just to save a buck ‘o five.
Peace through strength means spending money and building alliances. Not nickel and diming and breaking your own promises.
Those who argue their country can’t afford to do it ain’t patriots. They’re morons. Useful idiots. Soviet sympathisers. Traitors.
And I’m talking in the British context there. We signed up to defend Europe from the Nazis and the Soviets, knowing we could’ve negotiated terms with Hitler and Stalin and stayed out of it.
But we took the hit. For decades we paid the USA back with interest. Perhaps the penny pinchers think that supporting the UK was a wasted investment too.
Did the USA ever get a dime back from Russia for all its support in WW2? No. The Russian state is a parasite.
I firmly believe that in time Ukraine will pay back what it’s borrowed. If it succeeds. You’ll never get your money back from Russia.
I totally agree with everything you have said in your post, MalPearce.
However, the above statement seems to suggest that you might believe that those arguing that we should pull all of our support the second the Ukrainians make the slightest battlefield gains, or otherwise celebrate the most-minor of military victories, are being sincere / arguing in good faith.
They ain't.
Rather, they say that merely to annoy us.
Not even the most lukewarm supporter of Ukraine in its fight for survival would genuinely think for a minute that, e.g. the destruction of a Russian landing craft or the annihilation of a single Russian brigade warrants summarily stopping all aid.
Regards,