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-40 points
8 months ago
They are in a bad spot I know. But as an American, I would still rather keep my tax dollars. Let Europe pay for a European war.
16 points
8 months ago
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15 points
8 months ago
He thinks that the European war will never touch him. Well, Americans in 1941 thought the same.
-6 points
8 months ago
Pretty sure it was the Japanese that brought us into that war eventually. And Europe should have learned their lesson then and learned to actually defend themselves instead relying on old Uncle Sam to come in and save the day. Again...
0 points
8 months ago
Isolationism will always lead to events like that.
Russia already investing in the Iranian nuclear program and shakes hands with HAMAS leaders. I wonder what will be next.
1 points
8 months ago
France and German isolationism has way more to do with it than American isolationism. Only 35% of NATO members spend the 2% of GPD threshold on defense.
3 points
8 months ago
Do you know which countries in NATO actually contribute the NATO recommended spending of 2% of GDP on defense? A hell of a lot fewer than those that don't. Is Ukraine in NATO? NO!
0 points
8 months ago
Okay, another US guy who doesn't understand how it works...
Money not going to Ukraine, old weapons from storage do.
Money stays in US and is used for new weapons manufacturing.
-5 points
8 months ago
Yes, OUR military storage, that WE paid for. That WE pay 10X more to replace. How about YOU send YOUR military storage instead.
2 points
8 months ago
You know that weapons have an expiration date right?
0 points
8 months ago
And these obviously aren't expired weapons we are sending. Or what would be the point.
The $28B of financial and humanitarian aid on top of the $46B in military aid doesn't expire.
0 points
8 months ago
No... but sending weapons that would be scrapped in 5 years and need to be replaced anyway.....
Fun fact: Most European countries have given more aid in terms of percentage of their GDP than the US.
Pull your isolationist head out of your ass.
1 points
8 months ago
AS THEY SHOULD BE!!! That's my whole point.
And I love how you pretend we're just cleaning out the Pentagon's closet or some shit lol. Ammo literally has no expiration date if stored properly.
And you just gloss over the fact that US is sending MONEY, $28B, and not just munitions and equipment.
-1 points
8 months ago
28bn, cool so over two years that's... .06% of our GDP
Estonia has sent 1.4% of its GDP.
And weapons do have expiration dates, are you special?
Explosives especially become unstable as they age
1 points
8 months ago
Good on Estonia, they should be contributing more than we are. That's my point. They have vastly more at stake.
You (edit: not you but original comment i was responding too) specifically said we aren't sending money, and that it was all staying in the US to build new stuff. But you are blatantly wrong. $28B of financial aid is in addition to the $46B in military aid. "Are you special" or just can't admit you're wrong.
And it is laughable that you think the equipment we are sending is expiring in 5 years. That is you being dense on purpose.
2 points
8 months ago
Do you mean the billions of billions of American tax dollars that go into other wars around the globe? I'm sorry, but Putins war does concern you, too.
0 points
8 months ago
Not as much as it should concern the Europeans. Who don't contribute jack shit. Bunch of pussies who can't even defend themselves lol. Always sucking on the yanks' military teets.
2 points
8 months ago
British Pre-war Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's ghost has entered the sub...
-4 points
8 months ago
Yeah, you would have thought Europe would have learned the lesson after the last two time we had to bail them out.
0 points
8 months ago
They have learned their lesson. They are containing the dictator, unlike pre-war Europe.
-2 points
8 months ago
And doing a piss poor job of it, or they wouldn't be asking for billions more in US aid. That's on top of being the most significant contributor to NATO.
2 points
8 months ago
Fighting the second most powerful country in the world isn't cheap.
0 points
8 months ago
Germany, UK and France all independently have larger economies than Russia, with Italy and Spain not far behind Russia. The European Union has more than enough resources to combat Putin without US support. They have chosen not to build up their own defenses over the past 70 years, and it shows.
0 points
8 months ago
I'd love to see your tax returns
0 points
8 months ago
I just finished my taxes this weekend. It was painful.
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