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[Dennis] Prager: On the argument that we shouldn’t be aiding a corrupt country
North State Journal ^ | June 13, 2023 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 03/17/2025 10:09:31 PM PDT by Angelino97

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This article is nearly two years old, but I think it's still relevant.

FWIW, I oppose all foreign aid, to all foreign nations, irrespective of the circumstances.

But I post this article because many Freepers, who I suspect admire Dennis Prager, also oppose aiding Ukraine because they're a "corrupt, evil, Nazi, etc." nation. I'm curious what is their response to Prager's arguments.

1 posted on 03/17/2025 10:09:31 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

>> That is not the America I thought conservatism embraced.

I love you Dennis, but the Ukraine you’re embracing is not the real Ukraine.


2 posted on 03/17/2025 10:12:07 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Angelino97

A 2 year old article is irrelevant.
What’s he think today?


3 posted on 03/17/2025 10:12:40 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than saving to WORK like the rest of !US:-))
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To: Angelino97

Like anyone else Prager can and is also wrong at times.

He is wrong here, the enemy of my enemy is a risk laden proposition and best avoided or used with extreme caution at best

Ukraine is corrupt and so is Russia, blindly supporting Ukraine with blank checks and in the end bodies like Ukraine wanted is wrong period.


4 posted on 03/17/2025 10:13:45 PM PDT by Skwor
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>> What’s he think today?

That’s a damn good question. Unfortunately, at the moment he has other things on his mind... like hopefully walking again...


5 posted on 03/17/2025 10:14:31 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Harpotoo
A 2 year old article is irrelevant.

The circumstances of Ukraine's corruption, and its invasion by Russia, hasn't changed in two years.

What’s he think today?

When I heard him on the radio less than a year ago, Prager was still defending support for Ukraine.

6 posted on 03/17/2025 10:21:44 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Nervous Tick

Korea? Ok. What about South Viet Nam? They were corrupt and quit. The Philippines is corrupt and ripe for something bad. Chicoms and Muslims. 90k GI deaths in Korea and Viet nam combined. Give Ukraine the weapons and let Europe do the fighting.

Purchase Siberia like we did Alaska. Better us than to have them fight the Chicoms over it. That’s how we got Louisiana.


7 posted on 03/17/2025 10:22:42 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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The problem is that Ukraine’s “corruption” is not just internal - its global.

It included even the Biden family, the Kerry Family, etc...

It was used as a political black box to influence American politics, attack Trump, funnel money to the US Deep-state etc...

Its really a weapon used AGAINST the USA.


8 posted on 03/17/2025 10:24:43 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: DIRTYSECRET

WTF???


9 posted on 03/17/2025 10:29:10 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Angelino97

The most that America can do for any nation is to advise them how to have a good nation and then let that nation decide how good of a nation it wants to be.

Leaven the lump, that is all America can do.


10 posted on 03/17/2025 10:36:19 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I have invented blackened salmon salad by baking it in the oven for too long. )
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To: Angelino97

Every nation is corrupt, most certainly including ours. That has nothing to do with my objections - I just don’t want my tax money going to fuel a pointless war in which we should not be involved.


11 posted on 03/17/2025 10:45:04 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Nervous Tick

Buying is better than stealing. Some countries need money. Plus it’s easier to deal with dictators-no parliament approval needed.


12 posted on 03/17/2025 10:52:58 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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>> Buying is better than stealing. Some countries need money.
>> Purchase Siberia like we did Alaska.

Uh... okay. I’m speechless except to thank you for answering my “WTF??” question directly and forthrightly.


13 posted on 03/17/2025 10:58:15 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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What good is acting as Russia's butler and doing everything getting us? With Bush, Obama, Biden, Trump we act like we are a vassal state to Russia. Why is the U.S. a subservient nation?

Putin is laughing at Trump, because he endorsed his opponents, and now he bosses him around.

14 posted on 03/17/2025 10:59:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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I don’t see Putin bossing around Trump.


15 posted on 03/17/2025 11:29:28 PM PDT by Angelino97
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Putin is laughing at Trump, because he endorsed his opponents, and now he bosses him around.

Thanks for repeating a completely bogus and idiotic Democrat talking point. You have obviously been watching MSNBC and CNN so the rest of us don't have to. What a guy!

16 posted on 03/17/2025 11:31:50 PM PDT by fireman15
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I never get any of my news from TV. I get it here on Free Republic. Stop focusing on the media, and on what’s going on here.


17 posted on 03/17/2025 11:56:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Skwor

Ukraine is destroyed all those people dead all those Ukrainians living underground or who knows with how no good came from this and it’s funny to think in this day and age this modern time we still have a country like Russia that’s trying to reclaim lost land


18 posted on 03/18/2025 12:01:48 AM PDT by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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It was likely little to do with lost land and instead much more to do with the continued European encroachment into countries Russia was originally told would not happen.

You assumption is wrong about land grabbing.


19 posted on 03/18/2025 12:07:28 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: PGR88

Exactly.


20 posted on 03/18/2025 12:21:19 AM PDT by tiki (To)
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