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from putin's words, this was made in order to save several ukranian regions, but you know that the stakes are getting higher when the countries fight; we can safely say that russias army is both over and underrated: if its a weak bubble with ridiculous 3% part of the world economy and its army is filled with alcoholics and idiots who are holding AK first time, why didn't it crumple under the weight of all of those weapons being in the country? additionally, we can also say that "russia is awful because it buys weapons from iran", but theres a good thing - russia pays
yes you got me 
sincerely, your kremlin-bot named Trofim
yes, we are in a proxy war with Russia/China and other fascist states that supply russia. 
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yes, its money well spent.
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hopefully its over soon with a total Ukrainian victory. >

Sure. Though it always makes me wonder how billions of dollars to war and corporations fly through congress but they squabble about money that goes to Americans. >

because corporations pay republican lawmakers to block most funding that helps the average person.
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if they lose any ground, its harder to gain back than it is defend it. >

The people just need to get together and toss like $2 each to pay off these politicians like corporations do. They’re pretty cheap to buy. >

It’s not just the money. It’s the promise of jobs, but not only for themselves, it’s for them to fill out and use as favors/bribes. It’s the lean-on-this-guy pressure. 
It’s the “rid me of this troublesome priest” power. It’s mostly about power >

So what hope is there then? Seems futile. >

Well if we could get money out of politics it would help a lot, but in reality access to power will always corrupt. Maybe if we could also have tighter tax laws that make it really expensive to donate to a PAC or otherwise access elected people without really tight oversight. 
But none of that can happen because it’s meant to be futile >

Well, so let’s just party then! >

Absolute bargain. >

Almost half of what it should have been. >

Biden cut the budget deficit by $1.4 trillion in 2022. Republicans have no standing to lecture him on fiscal responsibility. >

Kickass. Keep it coming. 
Love that Lil Pootie and his Orcs are getting lit the fuck up. >

Fuck Putin. Money well spent, particularly because we are not sending money to Ukraine, we are sending weapons manufactured here. Not to mention that we are testing them under combat conditions. >

Worth every penny >

It was worth doing for humanitarian reasons. Holding off a genocide.
But the Ukrainians have destroyed a lot of Russian firepower with that aid. That alone was worth a multiple of the US cost - if Ukraine wins out. >

Lot of people in this head didn't read the article. That's not how much was spent, just approved. We've actually spent like a third of that. >

Almost as much as their GDP! yay! >

Alomst >

Kinda getting a little more crazy, I mean we went from supporting with defensive weapons with Biden saying we wouldn't give them offensive weapons.... Now that's ok? Not to mention the rampant corruption within the Ukraine government.... >

I case it's not clear, that 113 billion is money approved not spent. Financially and equipment-wise Ukraine has cost us about 45 billion.
I think the weapons thing has more to do with 1) maintaining the alliance supporting Ukraine and 2) wearing Russia down
Doing both of those things is a delicate balancing act. Russia is akin to a big monster like Godzilla that's rampaging through a city. You don't want Godzilla to use its most powerful abilities because if it does it will destroy the whole city. So instead of, say, firing missiles from an aircraft carrier and risking provoking the monster you just have people in small vehicles driving around shooting it with 50 cal machine guns. This slowly weakens the monster until it either runs away or dies with a whimper. >

War is money friend 💰💰 💰 >

So it cost every American $336.28 last year...
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The current population of the United States of America is 336,025,650 as of Sunday, February 5, 2023, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.
113 billion divided by 336,025,650 = $336.28385214
Well the ones that pay taxes that is... >

That's cheap af cuz it completely destabilized Russia's military and economy. >

peace means sending new aid to a country that is going to attack civilians, freedom means going from being an underling of country x to being an underling of us and getting knowledge means doing nothing but getting subsidies. welcome to orwell's nineteen eighty-four, folks! >


peace means sending new aid to a country that is going to attack civilians

Want to explain what you mean? >

a country with a two-striped flag with the top part being blue and the bottom being yellow - ukraine >

They were attacked, their civilians are the ones being needlessly killed. >

the last question is - ik that it isn't enough for me and im too stupid because im from ru, but why do you need to support a country that is located 10k miles away? >

Part of the peace that emerged from WW2 was an understanding that countries just don't invade other countries and take them over. If Russia succeeds in Ukraine, they won't stop there. The US (and the EU) sees, rightly, that it's in the interest of the entire world (and, more specifically, the United States) to stop this tyranny in Ukraine, not when it hits the borders of NATO and drags the whole EU into the war. As a Russian you should see this also, you're being led by a madman. >

it simply isn't worth it - in fact, us citizens must ask themselves a question: why would they continue this pointless war and support a former comedian who has an inflated ego and appears only in a khaki-colored t-shirt with other presidents? >

As I've said, if Ukraine falls, Putin won't stop, and the war will escalate- it's already caused immense instability in the world, that would only increase. The answer to your question is: because it is the interest of the US to stop this here and now, not later when it will be far more expensive to do so.