RE: Proxy war in Ukraine?
November 7, 2022 at 3:26 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2022 at 3:33 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 7, 2022 at 3:18 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(November 7, 2022 at 2:37 pm)Jehanne Wrote: The United States cannot be a World Police force; we have our own problems. Do not let the war in Ukraine turn into a fiscal black hole, or, worse, the detonator for WW III.
$18 billion out of a defense budget of nearly $2 trillion is hardly the harbinger of a ‘fiscal black hole’.
Boru
-to make it even more apparent, that 18b wasn't actually the product of a single years production..either. We're dumping stockpile, and, alot of the time, gear we don't really intend to use anymore. We sent them 113s instead of bradleys.......
It's an even smaller amount than it seems like, which is saying something. What it actually amounts to, is 1.8b over a past ten years or so. Now that's not to say that ukraine isn;t screaming for our newer better shit, and..at least when they decide to terror bomb an apartment complex...that gives zelensky a ticket to the candy shop. That's how they ended up with those NASAMS. Thanks Putin! But hey, you know, the russian win is a law of nature, like gravity. Shit always falls down, and only ever on putins enemies....
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