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God damn travesty.
GOP need to be sent to Ukrainian front lines. Selfish cowards.
Send them to the russian front, where they belong.
Just use them as the ammunition
Mitch McConnell should be fired!!
…from a cannon
Please do not load the guns with dog shit
The EU should be taking care of this or NATO. I want one fucking thing from the US government: health care. If all EU nations cut their levels of healthcare back to US levels they could afford to fight their own war.
EU countries pay roughly half as much on healthcare per capita than US. https://www.statista.com/statistics/236541/per-capita-health-expenditure-by-country/#:~:text=In 2022%2C the United States,highest per capita health expenditure.
It’s also a war in their backyard. Own it. Get the money however. I’m tired of my taxes disproportionately funding the world police.
USA being “world police” is more of a meme than an actual thing. The policing USA does is more to ensure its own soft power and control over the global economy, and not actually taking a principled stand based on morals. Even the current Ukraine adventure is more a game to destroy the russian war machine than to save Ukraine, keeping Ukraine free and independent is more of a side-effect. Not that the EU is much better, I feel the EU is more afraid of bordering russia than genuinely helping Ukraine stay independent.
Ukraine funding costs the average tax payer $330 a year, and given the top 1% pay 42% of all federal income tax, it probably cost you a fair bit less than that.
NATO?
You mean… the organization the United States is part of?
This is just the dumbest take. If you seriously believe for one second that any money the US could save on the military would go to healthcare instead of tax cuts for the rich you’re really beyond help.
Western partners prove themselves unreliable. That’s what eroding your own soft power looks like.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“When it’s two or three soldiers, I’m not shooting any more; only when it’s a critical situation, say, ten guys close to our infantry, we will work,” Sergeant Taras “Fizruk” told the newspaper.
The lack of shells, Fizruk said, has hampered his unit’s control over the northern flank of Avdviivka in eastern Ukraine and their ability to shoot at Russian troops.
And Western supplies are now at the “bottom of the barrel,” Admiral Rob Bauer of the Netherlands, who chairs NATO’s Military Committee, said at a Warsaw Security Forum meeting in October.
The issue has been compounded by Republicans in Congress, who are threatening to withhold crucial aid to Ukraine, including ammunition, a defining element in frontline combat.
Newly committed aid to Ukraine reached a “new low” between August and October, with a 90% drop compared to the same period in 2022, according to a report compiled by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
Despite having German Leopard 2 tanks and American Bradley M1 fighting vehicles, Fizruk told The Times of London that his unit couldn’t break through Russia’s defensive lines without artillery shells.
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Clickbait title. It means arty can’t be spent on groups of 2 or 3 troops, not that Ukraine’s artillery is “Forced to stop shelling Russians”.
This will be spun in Russia to give Russians the sense that they are winning, and that will make like politically that much easier on Putin.
Moral of the story: when you invade a sovereign country, make sure you have political influence over its allies, enough that if they win political control in their election you can prevail on them to cut funding to support those allies.
Also moral of the story: don’t vote for Republicans, they’re the modern version of Nazi sympathizers in the run-up to WWII that “didn’t want the US to prolong the war in Europe” and that really just meant they wanted to live in a world run by fascists like them
