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  • X xenon

    @Jolly said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:

    Why are we pushing Europe to 5%? Because 5% will probably supply enough combat power that they can defend themselves.

    Follow the current German/French consortium on a new MBT? They've just about got it finalized and Rheinmetal has chucked a monkey wrench into the whole thing.

    They can't help themselves and I think Americans are getting tired of carrying their load.

    Who do the Europeans need to defend themselves from?

    If it’s mostly the Russians, doesn’t depleting their military lower the spend you need in the long run?

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    @xenon said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:

    Who do the Europeans need to defend themselves from?

    Who do you think? 🤔

    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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    • JollyJ Jolly

      Why are we pushing Europe to 5%? Because 5% will probably supply enough combat power that they can defend themselves.

      Follow the current German/French consortium on a new MBT? They've just about got it finalized and Rheinmetal has chucked a monkey wrench into the whole thing.

      They can't help themselves and I think Americans are getting tired of carrying their load.

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      #63

      @Jolly said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:

      Why are we pushing Europe to 5%? Because 5% will probably supply enough combat power that they can defend themselves.

      Follow the current German/French consortium on a new MBT? They've just about got it finalized and Rheinmetal has chucked a monkey wrench into the whole thing.

      They can't help themselves and I think Americans are getting tired of carrying their load.

      I don’t mind pushing Europe to spend 5%. I’m not fond of us only being at 3.6 and looking to drop 8% per year.

      The Brad

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        #64

        https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/02/21/watch-marco-rubio-reveals-why-the-trump-administration-is-so-ticked-at-zelensky-n2185837

        “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

        Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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          Horace
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          #65

          I understand saying that is going to set some people off because they take an absolutist view about American relations with Ukraine that suggests no matter what Zelensky does, he is entitled to billions upon billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded weapons and aid.

          No way. Surely nobody is that silly and immature.

          Education is extremely important.

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          • JollyJ Jolly

            https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/02/21/watch-marco-rubio-reveals-why-the-trump-administration-is-so-ticked-at-zelensky-n2185837

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            @Jolly said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:

            https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/02/21/watch-marco-rubio-reveals-why-the-trump-administration-is-so-ticked-at-zelensky-n2185837

            I see and hear that Rubio has no response for why Trump posits that Zelensky is a "dictator without election."

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              #67

              There is nothing wrong with the United States trying to get something in return for all it has spent, and despite some ignorant claims to the contrary, Lend-Lease in World War II was not free.

              That’s true and the UK only finished paying its Lend-Lease debt back a few years ago.

              Interestingly, the USSR never remitted so much as a penny for any of its Lend Lease assistance after WWII. The total technical and material aid Stalin received from the USA from 1941 through 1945 totalled about 11 billion USD. That would be over 1 trillion USD in today’s dollars. (McMeekin: Stalin’s War, 2021. pp. 658 - 659)

              Elbows up!

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                #68

                Well, that went over your head ...

                “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                  #69

                  Sec. Rubio said "One of the points that the President made is that Ukraine is on another continent and it doesn't directly impact the daily lives of the people of the US."

                  What the................?

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                  • JollyJ Jolly

                    Well, that went over your head ...

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                    #70

                    @Jolly

                    Well, that went over your head ...

                    What are you talking about, Beauregard? Believe me, there is nothing you have ever posted on this subject that has gone over my head.

                    Elbows up!

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                      jon-nyc
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                      #71

                      Wow.

                      Only non-witches get due process.

                      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                        It would be a concession to stop prosecuting a war they are destined to win, absent an escalation between nuclear powers that ends who knows where. That is a concession we should all care about, not that it's obvious that we all do, as we deploy our armchair principles.

                        Education is extremely important.

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                          It would be a concession to stop prosecuting a war they are destined to win, absent an escalation between nuclear powers that ends who knows where. That is a concession we should all care about, not that it's obvious that we all do, as we deploy our armchair principles.

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                          #73

                          @Horace

                          It would be a concession to stop prosecuting a war they are destined to win, absent an escalation between nuclear powers that ends who knows where.

                          No, that would be an outcome. A concession by Russia at this point would be that Kremlin stops attacking what remains of Ukraine and accepts that it is a fully sovereign and independent country that will freely decide its own future path. Putin’s NATO threat justification is a figment of his own twisted perception of reality.

                          Elbows up!

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                            @Horace

                            It would be a concession to stop prosecuting a war they are destined to win, absent an escalation between nuclear powers that ends who knows where.

                            No, that would be an outcome. A concession by Russia at this point would be that Kremlin stops attacking what remains of Ukraine and accepts that it is a fully sovereign and independent country that will freely decide its own future path. Putin’s NATO threat justification is a figment of his own twisted perception of reality.

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                            @Renauda I had been assuming that a peace deal in the immediate future would include sovereignty for Ukraine.

                            Education is extremely important.

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                              @Renauda I had been assuming that a peace deal in the immediate future would include sovereignty for Ukraine.

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                              @Horace

                              Assume nothing of the sort from Putin. He is incapable of negotiating anything in good faith. Putin’s objective, at the very least, is to have what will be left of Ukraine as a wholly subservient vassal state along the lines of Belarus.

                              The Ukrainian nation will not accept that outcome.

                              Elbows up!

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                                The Brad

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                                  @LuFins-Dad said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:

                                  Look at all the TDS in the comments. A combination of armchair principles and hatred of Donald Trump, extrudes as a self-righteous desire for a bloody conflict to continue indefinitely. Gotta love humans.

                                  Education is extremely important.

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                                    Here’s a simple fact. There was no resolution in the offing under Biden. The prior administration and the Europeans seemed absolutely locked in on supporting the Ukrainians enough to put up a passable defense, but not enough to allow them to actually win the war, either. The whole “wearing down Russia’s military” sounds good on a balance statement but is a ridiculously immoral and unethical view, in my opinion. Spending and wasting Ukrainian and Russian lives to no great ultimate effect.

                                    Did Trump go about this the right way? No. He’s a dickhead. But something is at least getting done. So which is better? A polite coward that lets the war continue killing people indefinitely, or a dickhead that does and says mean things, but gets the war ended and gets a business deal done that reimburses our investments and also provides an immutable security guarantee. It also opens up an economic opportunity for Ukraine that was not being utilized before.

                                    The Brad

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                                      In 2017, we were all assured that Ukraine was corrupt and the Government filled with individuals gat we’re little more than thugs. Now the same people are touting Ukraine as he brightest and shiniest example of honest democratic governance. LMFAO

                                      The Brad

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                                      • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

                                        Here’s a simple fact. There was no resolution in the offing under Biden. The prior administration and the Europeans seemed absolutely locked in on supporting the Ukrainians enough to put up a passable defense, but not enough to allow them to actually win the war, either. The whole “wearing down Russia’s military” sounds good on a balance statement but is a ridiculously immoral and unethical view, in my opinion. Spending and wasting Ukrainian and Russian lives to no great ultimate effect.

                                        Did Trump go about this the right way? No. He’s a dickhead. But something is at least getting done. So which is better? A polite coward that lets the war continue killing people indefinitely, or a dickhead that does and says mean things, but gets the war ended and gets a business deal done that reimburses our investments and also provides an immutable security guarantee. It also opens up an economic opportunity for Ukraine that was not being utilized before.

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                                        @LuFins-Dad said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:

                                        A polite coward that lets the war continue killing people indefinitely,

                                        In fairness, that appears to be the will of his voters. Democracy in action.

                                        Education is extremely important.

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                                          You guys talk as if the only two possibilities were status quo or Trump switching sides and completely adopting every last one of Putin’s talking points while shaking down our former ally.

                                          Seems there might have been other possibilities.

                                          Only non-witches get due process.

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