I have my doubts about this.
Ah yes. The caveat.
“I will continue support…for a price! MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!”
Should we be worried that it’s entirely plausible to give our next/previous president an evil laugh, and it reasonably fits him?
itll be traditional republican support. thoughts and prayers
Are you kidding … who the hell can take his word about anything.
We’re better off to turn off these dumb announcements and pay no attention to anything he says because either it doesn’t make sense, its stupid, its a lie or he doesn’t mean what he says
Keep watching the news to listen to what everyone else is saying but when it comes to US government, don’t bother taking it to mean anything.
Next Year:
Gonna be the same trickle biden did… Clearly US has no interest in Ukraine winning the war. The goal is to weaken Russia.
Your concept of a “trickle” is interesting. The US has contributed nearly as much to Ukraine as every other country combined. (As of September, that was about $92 billion from the US versus about $112 billion from all other countries).
Most of that money was wasted on domestic corruption.
Essentially Us cleared its stock piles of what they had and dod was severally overcharged on these purchases because stock pile was no in demand.
So Ukraine was getting 1 item for price of 3.
Deliveries were delayed, stuff that was needed was not provided.
Also arbitrary restrictions lifted two years too late.
You do realize no country is going to give up their best military secrets? And the pricing is likely true of every contributing country.
The restrictions were in no way arbitrary. This whole thing has been a game of chicken with Putin. Would you rather that other countries immediately escalated to scare Putin into launching his nukes? Frankly I’m happy it hasn’t come to that, and with multiple countries now giving the go-ahead to launch attacks inside of Russian territory, maybe the Russian people will start questioning the motivations behind this war that Putin started.
Yes, it does add up to a lot, but it always came in just enough to keep Russia at bay. Also the permissions around where and how which weapons could be used.
When Russia invaded, Putin had no idea how corrupt, weak and inefficient his forces were.
This trickle allowed Russia enough time to turn around much of that, getting us to the point where they are now severely threatening Ukraine.
If the military aid was more decisive, Russia could have been defeated early on, and the total spend could have been less than where it is now.
As I mentioned to the other commenter, all countries proceeded with discretion. We also didn’t realize how bad of shape Russia’s infrastructure was in, so that demanded a slow approach to try and prevent a nuclear retaliation. Now we know that’s not going to happen, thus lifting the restrictions on attacking within Russian territory.
It’s funny how the opinion on the US’s role in this war over the last two years has gone from “WTF are we doing risking a nuclear war with Russia” to today where folks seem to be saying “why didn’t we stomp Russia from the very beginning?”. The answer in both cases was obvious, I don’t know why anyone has forgotten the reason for that initial caution.
