(December 24, 2022 at 12:37 pm)LinuxGal Wrote:(December 24, 2022 at 11:35 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Putin's painted himself into a corner: Russia is unable to win, and Putin cannot afford to lose.
And the US did our part in this by giving Ukraine a bunch of old weapons that were going to be decommissioned anyway, for less money that it would have cost to decommission them.
The US is spending huge amounts of money on this war. The Europeans are doing their part too but the lions share belongs to American tax payers
. Zelensky calls it an investment on freedom and democracy. I think he is right. Because they are the ones paying in life not money. All that I am saying is that I thought the era of domination junkies was more or less over after WWII. Yet there are still some maniacs to remind us that this is not going to be over any time soon. My problem is that I cannot understand like why a nation like China, who rules over 1/4th of the population of the world doesn’t want to leave Taiwan alone.
There are news of Japan and Australia + India increasing their military spending as well. I still see it as money that could be spent in a more constructive manner. But maybe that’s just my personal, philosophical idealist way of thinking.
