It's never been about the money.
The Republicans and their grifters want Putin to win. It's just that simple.
And they want more tax cuts (until barely anything can be funded).
I don't even think it's that complicated it's just they are against literally anything the Democrats or the nebulous "liberals"/ left want.
The left support Ukraine?
Well that means it's bad! Boo Ukraine!
It looks to me like this war is pretty cheap on both American lives, and on the American taxpayers' pocketbook.
It's almost like the real reason they are against aid for Ukraine is that they just parrot whatever their media outlets put out, and they put out being against aid for Ukraine because they want Russia to win and they want lower taxes and reduced regulation for themselves. It's almost like conservatives are really fucking gullible so long as you pretend you're on their side and point at somebody for them to blame.
The weirdest part to me is how “support the troops” is always a priority for most in the group opposing Ukrainian support. In fact, military support is usually so critical that they can set aside many of their primary targets of small government and fiscal responsibility.
I get that this isn’t the “our” troops they usually chant about, but it easily could be, especially if Russia continues its aggressive action. It doesn’t seem that it’s that hard to understand that if you’re willing to give the US military nearly a trillion dollars, it isn’t a bad idea to give support to a country actively fighting against this threat.
I guess it really does just come down to people convinced that Russia is somehow not a threat to the US, even though the leaders of “our troops” feel differently.
"Well clearly I can't be held responsible for my life's problems, it must be the fault of disenfranchised minorities."
And pretty profitable for the military complex which finally is used for a good cause. Didn't these republicans receive their yearly lobby cheque?
Must've bounced, I guess. Ammo isn't exactly cheap to make.
"The war is cheap in terms of American lives" is a right wing, nationalist sentiment. "American" lives dont have any more value than any other lives.
Sure, but the American government's entire point is to collect American taxes and provide benefits for Americans. To minimize monetary cost and maximize benefit to American lives is exactly what it should be doing.
That's not how global politics work. Your idealism is extreme.
"Capitalism seems inescapable, so to did the divine rights of kings" -Le Guin
Your current crop of Republicans don't really care about the US or American values - they want to live in a Margret Attwood novel.
“It’s not rape if it’s for America”
The war is cheap in all terms (expect Ukrainian's). I believe most of the dollar numbers you see includes equipment value when they were going to be scrapped anyway. The accountants have to give it a fair dollar value, but in practical terms it's zero.
Any Republican against giving aid to Ukraine is essentially a Russian asset.
You spelled ass-hat wrong
It's the same picture
Crazy idea, how about we have a few years where we aren't involved in some war?
Wouldn't it be nice if all these tyrants like Putin would just stay in their own homes...?
If only it were that simple to look the other way from your neighbor getting attacked and raped.
As if such persons ever stop after their first successful house...
Oh man, maybe if there was some agreeement between Russia and Ukraine that avoided war, it could even be negotiated in a third country, maybe in Minsk? That could have been a great way to avoid war, too bad nothing like that happened. Imagine if NATO even broke such treaty? Would be too far fetched even Call of Duty haha
Europe can intervene then
Bonus points if the Korean War also ends
Come on now, you know the left panels would have said something about tax breaks for "job creators." You only wish they fumbled on their absurd message.
Alternative is we just print another 80billion while simultaneously trying to curb inflation. Good plan!
What a fucked up meme, do you warmonger much?
We just added 250 billion this week to the National Debt. How about just reduce spending and not add more elsewhere?
Pretty sure nobody is ‘adding more’ anywhere. We’ve been running on “continuing resolutions” for years. That means we continue to keep taxes at the same rates and spending allocations at the same rates, until we all can get together and agree on something better.
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How to deal with a deficit? Make a budget.
How to make a budget? Get the House to pass one that the Senate will also pass and the President will sign.
How to get the House to pass a budget? Have the Speaker call a vote on it.
How to have the Speaker call a vote on it? Have a Speaker.
How to have a Speaker…?
Yes, but the requires having mature adults in congress.
Money is fake, dummy.
The problem isn't the spending as much as it is the idiotic tax cuts. We have the lowest taxes among western nations, we're experiencing record corporate profits and yet Republicans continue to insist we need to cut taxes. When in power the deficit goes higher than Democrat administration's and yet they cut taxes on the wealthy.
Republicans have no sense of fiscal responsibility and the only time they "support" it is when talking about cutting social programs, or in this case, when it helps Russia. They never support fiscal responsibility that includes increasing taxes, even if those increases would only impact the ultra wealthy that wouldn't suffer in the slightest.
This meme is such a dumbass lib take. A broken clock... Just because Republicans came to the conclusion that the war should end for the wrong reasons doesn't mean that the conclusion is wrong. We should all be pushing for negotiations and an end to the bloodshed. You dronies have become absolutely insufferable. If you're so pro-war, then why don't you volunteer and head to the frontline? Slava my anus!
You're talking about the war that Putin just said Russia never started, right? That war? The one that Putin has refused negotiations to stop multiple times?
I just want to make sure you're commenting on the same war the rest of the world is talking about.
Why should Ukraine ask for anything less than the full withdraw of Russian forces from inside their borders?
Why should Russia settle for anything less than an end to the cleansing of ethnic Russians in Ukraine? They tried to negotiate an end to this, but the US admitted that the agreement was just to buy time in order to arm Ukraine.
Ukraine can ask for a quadrillion dollars in compensation, but it doesn't mean that it's going to happen. Russia is completely in control of this conflict and if the bloodshed is going to end, the Ukrainian state needs a fucking reality check in order to come to terms with the fact they they're going to need to make some concessions.
Thank you for not being a sociopathic war monger.
That's right america, go help people kill eachother already!!!
