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Not sure how you combine all of those in the list and be consistent about anything.

Putin has publicly “outlawed” homo-pedo, yet Russia remains one of the worst of human trafficking nations in the world (lest we forget - not propaganda - thousands of Ukrainian children were kidnapped by Russian forces in the opening months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Fact.

Russian Orthodox priests that had been sent to serve in the “Ukrainian Orthodox Church” over the last decade... many of which caught with boys... (one of several reasons the “Ukrainian Orthodox Church - aka relabeled Russian Orthodox in Ukraine - was tossed).

Remember at the 2022 invasion - and the reports from Bucha of mass civilian executions, rapes, etc? The world got a bit upset, but then some began claiming it was all fake/propaganda. Tell that to the. members of a church I have connections with (a friend and now-retired missionary to Ukraine helped build a church there - and there were many victims in that church of the very real massacre). Trustworthy, Christian families that were eye witnesses to the atrocities.

Or a Ukrainian national who I have worked directly with on missions in Ukraine - he and his church volunteers came under RUSSIAN fire for the “crime” of handing out food to civilians who’s homes were blown up... by Russians.

Or the nice Ukrainian woman I met last Christmas, who asked me to pray for her family back in Odessa... whose apartment building was hit by a Russian cruise missile.

I’m not a Zelenskyy fan boy. He is a coke-snorting actor. I was a bit more supportive of his predecessor - Poroshenko, though he is pretty suspect as well.

My short time in Ukraine a few years back showed me a few things that the media and neither political party seems to care about: The people, the average “Joe” hates a few things: all thinks “Russian” (even simply in name or reputation, and the language), any recognizable appearance of “Communism” (Ukraine was one of the most devastated nations from the USSR’s Communism), and what they PERCEIVE as “Corruption” Not much real trust - even between civilians. Every time we checked out of a hotel (70 of us in total), the process included employees counting towels, pillows, bed sheets, and a checklist of all things not permanently attached to the room!). And one hotel try to charge us a lot for missing towels - which were not missing. Lots of thieves and lots of corruption.

it’s what they know - and they hate it.They learned it from many decades under the Soviet Union.

I also am not in favor of US Taxpayer “benevolence” - Joe Biden enabled and promoted this war. Remember - 2014? Who was president then? Bummer. Putin was enabled and emboldened by the spineless Muslim-in-Chief who cared more about funding the “Muslim Dawn” revolutions than Ukraine (same Ukraine that Joe Biden actually committed Quid Pro Quo with to get prosecutors off Hunter’s back). Then 4 years of no significant aggression by Putin during the Trump years. Then we get Obiden in office - and Putin is again emboldened to take more territory.

I am NEVER in favor of sending money... And if we want to unload a bunch of our old equipment we are replacing anyway - then so be it. But $BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars? no. But also - we shouldn’t bind their hands either.