re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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What exactly have the BILLIONS of dollars in "aid" that we've given ukraine actually done for US citizens? Any of you rat-faced zelenksy dickriders wanna answer if the return on investements have been worth it?

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Exposed Russia as a wholly inefficient and outdated fighting force for the world to see.

Long run this allows us to more comfortably focus on the true greater geopolitical threat and diminishes the future chance of a two front war with two near superpowers - China and Russia.

Speaking of China, a change in their very pro-Russia foreign minister to one much more favorable to repairing US relations is worth the money alone. Our annual trade deficit with China is around $285 billion. A 10% improvement in that is $28 billion, per year. That doesn’t factor some give and take potentially gains on Asia pacific security.

Also speaking of China, this seems to have thrown a big wrinkle into the previously increasing possibility of China doing this same exercise in Taiwan, which would cause us much much larger problems than a war in Ukraine.

Greatly bolsters the eastern flank of NATO with the addition of Finland, NATO troop & equipment repositioning, strengthening former Soviet nations like Poland, the Baltics, and the balkans as their soviet era equipment donated to Ukraine gets replaced with western systems which, wait for it, creates economic growth for the US defense industry. MIC aside, this creates jobs, additional tax revenue, additional construction to handle it, more jobs, and more tax revenue.

Breaking EU dependence on Russian energy, even if a longer process, which further weakens Russia in the future, strengthens Europe to have more power and not be beholden to Russia to have the lights on. If we can get our shite together this also means more LNG exports to the EU, and wait for it, more economic growth for US energy sector.