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Mostly because it rattled Papa Pooty. Well done.
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A brief wartime trip to the United States delivered "Good results," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told his nation in a nightly video address on Thursday.
"We are returning from Washington with good results, with things that will really help," Zelenskyy said on a video posted to his Telegram account and linked to YouTube.
"This strongly suggests that it is not the U.S., but other influential NATO states, that are not convinced of the need to support Ukraine even more intensively," Polish historian Lukasz Adamski of the Mieroszewski Center in Warsaw told VOA. However, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Zelenskyy's trip only fueled the conflict.


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Well it pissed Russia off, so I count that as a win. >

Well it pissed off Fox News/Tucker Carson and many Republicans so that’s a win.
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Was about to make this exact comment. Tucker seemed more bewildered than usual. >

His Russian owners are pulling the leash tighter, due to anger from Zelenskyy's visit. >

The speech was pretty much a thank you speech >

Tanks for the memories, eh? >

Thanks for all that cash. Dollars to donuts we see massive corporations somehow imbedded in that region in the near future. >

You have no idea what’s actually going on lol >

Do you? Lol lol lol lol >

Isn't it material and not cash?
Didn't Reagan do this with Afghanistan when the soviets invaded, to stop the Soviet spread?
It's funny how Republicans are all over Putins schlong, Putin who was an enemy agent in the cold war. Reagan is spinning in his grave while conservative clowns are crowing for Putin to put the USSR back together. >

There is some cash, but it's for rebuilding/maintaining infrastructure so a humanitarian crisis is averted as far as I'm aware. So there's nowhere to skim off, either the heat and water are restored or they're not. 
The goodwill will be repaid in Crimean oil/gas
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It’s also meant for keeping the government running - paying salaries and such >

Yeah, Biden's response doesn't sound especially promising LRM-wise. >

Long range strike capabilities isn't in the plans for what NATO wants to achieve with their support of Ukraine, at the moment. 
NATO is providing Ukraine with the tools to throw the Russians out of its occupied territories, not to dismantle Russia completely. 
However, the tune may change if Ukraine recaptures all of her territories and the Russians stall any peace talks. Until then, any attacks inside Russia has to be done by Ukrainian saboteurs, because missile strikes within Russia would be crossing one line too many for NATO. It's a lot of risk for potentially little gain, relatively. We want to nudge the lines, blur them out a bit before crossing any. >

The amount of impotent rage from Russia over this can't be over-emphasized. To the point that they were demanding the video of him receiving the flag to a cheering Congress be stricken from the internet. I think they thought they had a lot more influence with the GOP than is panning out, and this is genuinely panicking them. (Armchair only, not an expert of any kind.) They assumed this aid was more controversial that it's turned out. >

I don't really really follow politics, but I do feel that the support for Russia from within the right might be overstated.  I do think that a fair amount of uninformed GOPers think we're writing literal checks and sending them to Ukraine instead of sending aging equipment worth billions, but maybe that's because I don't watch Fox or CNN.  I'm in a really red area in Alabama, and around here it's 100% screw Russia.  But who knows what the real situation is, I guess. >

The fact that most Russia supporters in America are conservative doesn't mean most conservatives are Russia supporters. Also I think Russia overestimated how much support they'd get due to hating the libs, because they really don't understand how much American conservatives love a good war.
Seriously, the land of Murica fuck yeah! just loves some explosions. A half naked woman eating a hamburger while sitting on the back of a lifted pickup that's parked on the deck of an aircraft carrier while a giant line of explosions covers the horizon? Conservatives cream their pants for this stuff. Half a century of having every major war turn to shit, and now they've got one that gets cheered on for moral righteousness. Way more important than owning some libs.
The nation that celebrates its founding day by blowing stuff up isn't going to turn down the opportunity to look good to half the world by blowing stuff up. Lel.