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  1. We cold double the current supplemental request and we still would not be donating Ukraine the equivalent of 5 thousandths of our GDP, or by another metric one Elon Musk, to fight all Russia.
  2. It’s so wild to shit on these countries that are doing more than and and with donations that ultimately end up in large part in U.S. bank accounts because they are buying stuff from us. If we increased our aid to Estonia level that would be 827 billion dollars and the war is likely over.
  3. Well, they have been. Your idea of the size and ability of these countries is all upside down. Yes, the Czechs have emptied a lot of their inventory and purchased a fleet of Vipers, Venoms, and F-35s (24). The Czech Republic has 10 million people. How many F-35s do you think New Jersey can buy, or the Los Angeles MSA?! The $60 billion package currently being held up in the U.S. Congress is .002 of U.S. GDP, btw. That’s what we’re fighting over. 60 billion is .08 of Polish and .2 of the Czech GDP. Again, we are talking scale. We wouldn’t even move up the list of per capita but it’s a battlefield game changer THAT WE PAY TO OUR FUCKING SELVES.
  4. This is ONE initiative that we are not participating in and so crapping on it unearned. It is easy to find which nations are really in this fight. The United States isn’t on the screen, we are below Canada and Bulgaria. Instead of asking why poorer Eastern European nations don’t wreck their economies and build factories they wont need, you might ask why we have such reluctance to even match a country like Croatia or officially neutral Switzerland since at scale that’s far more useful. I realize this is reality crashing into preferred political rhetoric but on something like this shouldn’t reality win?
  5. We have literally a full accounting of what is going on in Europe regarding supply via the contact group that meets in Rammstein. Anyway to answer your question: https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2024/03/20/czech-led-bulk-ammunition-buy-for-ukraine-picks-up-steam/ The United States is the NATO Ally that has the defense base to supply most of the more pressing needs like high-end air defense and long-range fires. We are the supplier of choice to NATO Allies for this and we in fact have pressed to ensure we maintained some of these key capabilities as part of our defense industrial base. And now we are sitting on it. Europe is contributing more per capita and in absolute terms but we are the nation that has surplus of extremely key hardware. It’s us or it doesn’t go.
  6. Based on what DJT said, this is probably going to be reframed as a loan, which everyone understands will never be repaid because you don’t give back a Bradley or a Patriot interceptor. It simply has to be framed that way as a sop to the grotesque ego of a man who needs to show he makes “good deals” and to satisfy—not LOW information voters— rather WRONG information voters. Just doing the thing that needs to be done by creating a Rube Goldberg machine for simpletons and half-wits to gawk at. This especially uninspired bit of high school drama would be understandable as politics if the end result wasn’t killing lots of brave people who want to like us. It’s astounding how eager the GOP IS celebrate their own stupid harmfulness.
  7. This is what DJT said about Ukraine earlier today: Almost word for word, with slightly worse syntax, to what you’re posting here. This is the man you’re turning to for your thoughts on strategic competition and American leadership against autocracy: That’s clown shit man. Clown shit. Ask yourself how you got here and if you’re proud.
  8. On Ukraine, as with so much— this exchange is instructive. GOP supporters are simply chronically incapable of making a case for what they want based on facts. Every single argument has to be based on easily disprovable lies and truth manipulation like “blank check, money printer.” It all falls apart if you just acknowledge the world as it exists.
  9. You keep repeating nonsense GOP lines (there’s no money printer) and you are actually making a great point that the NATO Allies outside of us as a whole are slightly larger than the U.S. and have a slightly larger economy cumulatively— and have contributed proportionally. The Alliance can’t undo years of mistakes and underinvestment. We have the equipment and DIB to give stuff. The others don’t. It sucks but it’s what it is. The question is why you want to abandon US leadership in Europe and why you hate the idea of modernizing our own forces while supporting Ukraine and creating America jobs?
  10. Anyone who lives in a world where Bucha, Mariupol, and Irpin happened and where Russia is forcibly deporting tens and thousands of children yet still says the loss of life is “wasted” is being either willfully ignorant or dishonest. This is what armies are for. They exist to fight and die so that other armies don’t rape and murder civilians and kidnap children.
  11. Also, the Soviets won in Afghanistan, at least the early going. We financed an insurgent campaign designed to inflict maximum attrition anytime they left their urban strongholds. The goal in Ukraine is not to surrender the nation to Russia and then bleed them dry. Not to re-litigate the morality of what happened there, but this would be a cruel and cynical approach that would cost at a minimum tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian lives and would confirm the worst narrative of what we are doing by supporting Ukraine. We want Ukraine to be free and sovereign. The goal isn’t just dead Russian soldiers as useful as that is.
  12. EL-OH-EL. Proof that being able to make significant amounts of money is not related to intelligence.
  13. All U.S. military aid to Ukraine either comes from U.S. stocks and is backfilled with newer, better stuff or is being produced in the U.S. and reinvigorating our defense base and preparing us to fight the next war. You’re choosing American weakness and Russia/PRC victory.
  14. Yeah, this is wishcasting. This consensus doesn’t exist. The obstructionist wing of the GOP is invulnerable to even domestic economic lobbying.
  15. It is getting increasingly hard to untangle the battlefield and Ukraine’s prospects from politics because (of choice) American politicians have chosen to make Russia’s victory and Ukraine’s defeat a political aim. I’ll leave it at that but the single biggest factor for whether Ukraine can hold serve is more approval to send weapons. In the meantime China has picked sides and so we now sort of are in a proxy war with the PRC. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-intelligence-shows-china-is-surging-equipment-sales-to-russia-to-help-war-effort-in-ukraine-ap-says
  16. Ukraine needs to shift to an attritional strategy that gives them space to reconstitute forces and get support flowing and integrated. There isn’t space for another grand offensive. And they can really maul the Russians. They can’t mount one either but they also are going to try. For the near to mid-term there is no Russian collapse on the horizon. Even this, which they can do, will need more and more consistent support.
  17. I’ve been avoiding this thread because I am angry. At some point I have to not be locked in on this every waking moment. Everyone needs to read European Commander/SACEUR General Cavoli’s testimony. It is all accurate. Then call your congress rep and call Mike Johnson.
  18. She’s almost certainly doing less damage as a rep than as mayor. That was a huge bullet dodged. She’s embarrassing and she’s hell on her staff but as a voting member is pretty much doing what she got sent there to do. Long term incumbents with marginal ambitions are rarely the worst problems in the House.
  19. What’s your favorite planet? Mine’s the sun. I like it because it’s like the King of Planets…Planet or star when that thing burns out we’re all gonna be dead.
  20. We all know the moon isn’t made out of green cheese. But what if it was made out of barbecue spare ribs? Would you eat it then?
  21. This would have been far more meaningful to do as a sitting congressperson.
  22. The libs say the sun is really big and super hot and then say that these little sunglasses can protect you from it. It’s silly.
  23. The Old Timer at Chilis is a really good burger and is usually much better value than any hipster burger place.
  24. Most SEC fans are college adjacent in the sense that IPIHB posters are Ana de Armas adjacent.
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