[Rdct29]

I will make a correction to your post. Russia was a paper tiger. The war has made their military much bigger and stronger than it was. I think the war exposed NATO as the paper tiger. They can't produce the weapons Ukraine needs to even come close to Russian production. Artillery shells and the guns to shoot them don't exist and can't be produced by the West. It also exposed some of our weapons as not as good as advertised. I just watched a video of an updated T-72 knock out and Abrams tank with one shot from 3 kilometers away. Biden and his corrupt clown posse will use the republican opposition to the $61 billion as an excuse for the Ukrainians losing the war. The fact is they would lose the war no matter how much money we give them. Money doesn't win wars. Men and weapons systems win them

[Lazamataz]

Respectfully, I disagree.

That's all I will say on the topic; I have no intention of getting sucked into the black hole of polarization and lack of resolution that these threads become.

[JonPreston]

the war exposed NATO as the paper tiger.

It certainly has, and for the real kick in the azz of the American taxpayers, Ukraine isn't a NATO nation but here the "defensive alliance" is involved knee deep, as it was in Serbia and Libya and Afghanistan, etc.