Posted on 07/14/2025 10:06:31 AM PDT by Kazan
“and slowdowns by expediting data rights”
Tech Data often can be purchased from an OEM but it comes at a very, very steep price. That is why we don’t buy it anymore.
What obligation? The same old bless those who bless thee line of S are a pee?
That was a long long long ago promise that Jesus the Savior of Jews and Gentiles alike, would come from Abrams seed. You do know that Abrahams first born was not born of a Jewish woman. So his seed would also be likely a Muslim or Middle Eastern non-Jew, RIGHT?
BUTT, the deficit is going up slower than in 2020 under DJT.
100%
We sell IT ALL at a loss.
Let Nato take care of their own. US out of the UN, and NATO.
No we don’t, and the most expensive trap of all is to be in the situation Russia is in now that the world has seen their weapons in action, their foreign markets dried up which means the taxpayer has to pay for everything without foreign buyers paying a lot of the freight.
Who cares if they are buying weapons we can't afford to lose because our stockpiles are critically low?
But, let me get this right -- you want this war to continue so the defense industry can make money? Who says war isn't big business!
btt
You overlooked my specific caveat in the OP: “I am not a ‘neocon’ or someone who wants “forever wars”.
You also apparently missed the point were I pointed out that mass production will make them cheaper for our own country to buy, which means we don’t have to deplete anything! We’ll get them replenished faster and cheaper.
I’m not interested in it as business. I’m interested in it as economic policy for the good of America. Replenish supplies, create jobs, have someone else pay, earn more tax revenue.
One final point. President Trump wouldn’t be doing this if Zelensky and Putin had not left him without the option of ending the war. He is pivoting brilliantly to solve the problem that US taxpayers shouldn’t be paying for the war and to send a message to Putin: “if you think you hold all the cards, you don’t”.
And, you, apparently, don't grasp that we're not in a position to mass produce weapons or ammo at where near the rate Ukraine needs to them, let alone to come close to matching Russian production.
It will take years to replenish our weapons stock.
Trump can end the war quickly by telling Zelensky to take any deal he can get and by cutting off all weapons and military intelligence to Ukraine.
THERE IS NO NATIONAL SECURITY INTEREST IN UKRAINE. And, the vast majority of the base don't want anymore money or resources wasted on it.
It's only neocon war pigs like Lindsey Graham and others that have a financial stake in keeping this war going that care about continuing military aid and support to Ukraine.
What in hell about that don't you understand?
https://english.nv.ua/nation/majority-of-u-s-republicans-oppose-continued-ukraine-aid-wsj-poll-shows-50504126.html
Seventy-nine percent of Republican Party supporters in the United States oppose continuing aid to Ukraine in its defense against Russia, The Wall Street Journal reported on April 6, citing the results of its latest survey.
No need to get touchy. We’re supposed to be the reasonable ones.
I am equally surprised to find that you don’t accept that there is any argument on the other side. Particularly, you also don’t realize that we are not arming the Ukrainians if the Europeans are paying for the weapons. Other than that, it is America First in every way: restocking, saving money, jobs, etc. Again, they’re going to continue fighting anyway. President Trump did his best to get them to stop but they dug their heels in.
President Trump might be looking at the problem as trying to bring balance back to the strategic equation in which there are enough incentives and disincentives to get them to the table.
PS. I actually love how Trump can figure out a way of monetizing every situation in favor of the USA.
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