Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky
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Ukraine surrenders or the US pulls out of Europe. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/47574
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@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.
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“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
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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.
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@Jolly said in Gifts for Putin, Demands for Zelensky:
I see and hear that Rubio has no response for why Trump posits that Zelensky is a "dictator without election."
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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)
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“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
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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................?
