re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Look, I'm as big of a non-interventionist as there is on here but your contention the US has less regard for civilian casualties and collateral damage as the Russkies is a load of crap. Even in the post-Vietnam era, the American armed forces' ROEs we're pretty restrictive. The US was fighting an insurgent enemy who routinely used the civilian population as shields. The Russians are fighting a largely conventional war in Ukraine. Apples to oranges.

The one difference is that for the first half century or so of the PRC, Russia was the "big brother" in the communist/totalitarian world. Russia has wrecked themselves for the foreseeable future. China, in spite of their problems (and they have many), are going to be the players in that relationship and Russia will be second fiddle.

Stated like the other two year old brat.

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YouTube British Admiral said the world is aligning by splitting into the dictatorships (China, Iran, Russia) and the free democracies (US, Britain, Western Europe). All other countries are going to have to choose a side to align with or walk a tightrope between the two camps. And this will escalate over the next two to three decades. So we are at the beginning of the "Brave, New World". We aren't going back to the world of even five years ago.

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As best I can tell it had been this way since WW2. This isn’t new.

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As best I can tell it had been this way since WW2. This isn’t new.

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Except it's gone more or less our way until now. The way we wanted it to go since the 1980s and to an extent post WWII. But there is an obvious large push from China primarily with Russia grabbing their coat tails to change the way the world works. From now on the US its going to have to work to try to keep it like it was. For me, looking forward there will be a greater push to try to peel countries away from the west. We will likely see all "non-democracies" overtly align with the ChiRUIranians. Think about the brewing troubles with de-democratization in S America. What will South Africa do? The US is going to have to work with a few others to hold it together.
Watch to see what Russia does to destabilize those countries in eastern Europe (Balkans) with restive populations. All that is needed is for a country to invite them in for help similar to what they did in Syria.

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The US was fighting an insurgent enemy who routinely used the civilian population as shields. The Russians are fighting a largely conventional war in Ukraine. Apples to oranges.

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Well in my post, which you obviously did not read or did not comprehend, I specifically used numbers from only the convention first 3 weeks of the war in the initial invasion. So it’s exactly Apples to Apples.

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This clearly wont be spent just allocated like the other 40bil

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If you people still don’t understand that these Pentagon releases are part of the previously-approved aid packages, I don’t know what to tell you.

You’re going to keep seeing these releases. This is the money being spent. The congressional approval was the money being allocated. It’s really not that complicated.

But I’m sure that won’t stop someone from chiming in about how we’ve spent “$3 trillion and counting!!11!” on Ukraine next time the Pentagon announces a release from the same fricking bucket of money that we’ve all known about for months.

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Well the Ukrainian civilian death numbers don’t specify who killed them either. The Ukrainians have been shooting a frick load of stuff that goes boom too. Probably exponentially more than the Iraqi army was shooting off during our invasion.

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War is hell!

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If you people still don’t understand that these Pentagon releases are part of the previously-approved aid packages, I don’t know what to tell you.

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Their heads may explode trying to figure this kind of stuff out.