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Daddy will keep giving weapons to Ukraine and Merica will remain in NATO, although he'll ask for a bigger contribution from it's members 
https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1870156539467543036
‼️ BREAKING: Trump's team informs Europe that U.S. aid to Ukraine will continue — FT
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) December 20, 2024
At the same time, the future U.S. administration will demand that NATO member countries increase their defense spending to 5% of GDP. pic.twitter.com/jHjXAyc7yv
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Maybe I'm insane, but I don't think the Russo-Ukraine War is a good example of good statesmanship, or beneficial for anyone. Like, I wish that Trump had won a second term in 2020 so his aura of unpredictability in foreign policy would convince Putin to not invade.
Honestly, I'm not really a fan of any conflict that turns teenagers of either side into meat. Like war happens, and sometimes it's necessary, but if we had better (as in moral) AND intelligent government, that would be nicer for a lot of reasons. I understand that strategically it makes sense to bait and switch Russia into a protracted conflict, but man I have seen too many kids just blown into clouds of blood on fricking liveleak or whatever. (You can tell I'm not a WPD user.)
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Testing weapons, weakening Russia and selling military tech are unfortunately too tempting to ignore. Ukraine messed up badly when it refused to lick America's boots for protection like the rest of Eastern Europe did after the fall of communism. Now they are sandwiched between NATO and Russia and without any defence treaty with any country, so the perfect target for these type of psycho schemes where they are forced to fight for others' profits
But there's a bright side here! Killing each other senselessly is in the slav nature so both ukros and ziggers are just following their instincts when they die en masse on some barren field in Ukraine
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Yeah it's just tough to watch. Like I live a comfortable life, I see other countries and what they're going through and I just wonder what my life would be like had I been there. Like, yes you cannot and will not save everyone. And I recognize the economics of it where yes, this is a good trade for a brinksmanship tier play to weaken Russia, but even then the there are tradeoffs. Like driving the world's largest holder of natural resources into China's arms, forever.
But regardless, I'm not going to pretend here that I support war for war's sake. Seeing people turned into mist is a sad affair. That's someone's child. The soldier who fought and died on that battlefield was likely not there by choice by either side, and cares little about the power games of US vs RU. I think world peace is possible if we had stakeholders who didn't view conflict as an opportunity, but then I get into the optimism of human nature vs cynicism of human errors. But even then you know, nuclear weapons ironically might be the biggest guarantor of peace, at least until the US disproved it and pushed the boundaries of conflict management in international diplomacy over the hill.
I used to be pen pals with a guy in Ukraine. Hope he's ok. He was very nice. Awesome guy.
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That degree finally paying off
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