Terthna
Professional Lurker
You're not wrong; but from where I'm sitting, the United States is at the point where we're just waiting to see which piece of straw breaks the camel's back, and I'd rather we stop piling them on no matter how insignificant the weight of each piece might be comparatively.You may want to take a closer look into the numbers involved. The Ukraine stuff and even Russia sanctions are pennies compared to the economic burdens USA imposes on itself for purely ideological reasons, but the attention these things get, for some nefarious reasons, is inversely proportional.
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Also there is the financial trick of giving Ukraine stuff that would be scrapped soon anyway due to age\replacement, though in aid figures it's shown at sticker price.
Why is this not getting the lion's share of attention?
Fair enough. I appreciate the concessions towards being hesitant to trust western governments, and fears about the economy; and you're right about who are the good guys and who are the bad guys in this conflict. But calling people idiots, and implying that they're cowards for not sticking around so that people can heap verbal abuse on them isn't going to win any arguments.I know after wasted years in the sand box a rather clear cut, righteous war of defense/independence that the West can support seems too good to be true. It is natural to be suspicious of the motives of people in DC after the stolen election, and some people in Ukraine before the corruption purges occurred were rather shady; I haven't forgotten how the Dems used the call to Zelensky to Impeach Trump.
And the economy sucks now, thanks to the impact from the Wu Flu and Biden's purposeful stupidity regarding US energy and resource production.
None of that changes that Ukraine is the good guy here and Russia is the bad guy, and what Russia has done and continues to do requires force and resources to stop, and repel from Ukraine's soil. Worry about the 'bill' once Russia has been pushed back to the 2014 borders, and no longer fires across their border into Ukraine, because cutting support for Ukraine will not fix a single fucking thing domestically, no matter how much fiscal conservatives want believe it could.
And if someone is a member of the 'Russia trad, West globohomo, thus Russia good' crowd, then they are an idiot.