Ukraine, One Year Later

[Mick-Boy]

One year on and I'm still adamantly opposed to US involvement/intervention/funding in Ukraine.

We weren't even a year past our utterly disgraceful failure in Afghanistan after 20 years of fighting and spending our grandchildren's and greatgrandchildren's money. Without even a moment of self-reflection on those twenty years giving us nothing but a better armed, equipped, and trained Taliban.

Then suddenly the question of whether SE Ukraine is controlled by the corrupt regime Kiev or the corrupt regime in Moscow becomes an existential threat to the US? GTFO.

I'm not playing that game anymore. I spent at least six months deployed to our boondoggles in all but one calendar year between 2002-2020.

If Victoria Nuland wants to go fight in Ukraine. Fine. She helped start the war in 2014 anyway.

[clodhopper]

One year on and I'm still adamantly opposed to US involvement/intervention/funding in Ukraine.

We weren't even a year past our utterly disgraceful failure in Afghanistan after 20 years of fighting and spending our grandchildren's and greatgrandchildren's money. Without even a moment of self-reflection on those twenty years giving us nothing but a better armed, equipped, and trained Taliban.

Then suddenly the question of whether SE Ukraine is controlled by the corrupt regime Kiev or the corrupt regime in Moscow becomes an existential threat to the US? GTFO.

I'm not playing that game anymore. I spent at least six months deployed to our boondoggles in all but one calendar year between 2002-2020.

If Victoria Nuland wants to go fight in Ukraine. Fine. She helped start the war in 2014 anyway.

This. I would only reconsider if when we won, Ukraine became the 51st state and Russia the 52nd. Pay to blow up a country, they pay again to rebuild it all on our dime with no return? Nope.

[colorider]

Biden will puke money to Ukraine when rebuilding time comes. That is, if there is a rebuilding time. Putin very well may never give up and just keep turning Ukraine into rubble until they give up and give Putin what he wants. Then Putin gets to own a shithole of a country filled with blown up buildings. Zelinsky can go back to acting and dancing on reality TV shows.

[hollohas]

Holy crap.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nian-town.html

Terrifying moment flesh-melting 'thermite rain' bombs hit eastern Ukrainian town on Friday before Putin's forces lose 1,000 men in just 24 hours on their deadliest day of war yet

[flogger]

Wow! Looks like fire and brimstone alright!