re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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The principle that as Americans we should have the RIGHT to disagree without being made to feel like we are enemies of the state.

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I never said you don't have a right to disagree but if you do then you're not a true American nor believe in putting us first. If you feel it's divisive it's because you know what I said has merit.

Do you really want to live in a country that doesn't take care of it's own military. Im a Plankowner and served in the Navy. Since you did also then you know that the ones having to get food stamps are the lower ranked people. If you can't take care of your own, first, you have no business helping others.

I agree we should always put Americans first.

That said, we can do both, the problem is that politically congress doesn't appear to want to take care of the troops.

We spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year on foreign aid. I'd rather stop sending billions to the Middle East and use that to cover what we're giving Ukraine.

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It's bull shite that our leaders are telling our military personnel to file for food stamps due to inflation.

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One of my buddies in the Navy had his CO make this order. CO was dishonorably discharged. Really is sad our naval officers onboard cruisers are having to pay for food with SNAP credits.

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That said, we can do both, the problem is that politically congress doesn't appear to want to take care of the troops

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If we can then we should be doing both. American citizens need to be taking a stand since Congress won't.

If you notice I didn't say "we shouldn't be sending Ukraine money" I said other countries period.

Where is the outrage that our youngest families in OUR military cannot afford to feed their families. They volunteered to protect OUR freedom yet we are going to ignore their basic needs. Shameful!

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I hate Russia. Hate corrupt Ukraine too but hate Russia more. I enjoy the stress Putin is going through but it's ludicrous that we are not taking care of Americans first before sending money to ANY other country. It's bull shite that our leaders are telling our military personnel to file for food stamps due to inflation. Take care of your own people first before giving out billions

If you down vote taking care of Americans first it only shows you're not an American or you're against this country.

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The U.S. Defense Budget has gone up $130 Billion in 5 years. This isn't a lack of funds issue, this is a how those funds are allocated issue.

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Crap. If they live on post then they get room and board, if

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Their families that live on base do not get free food. They are being told to file for food stamps because of inflation moron. Your thought process is crap.

This effects E-1 through E-4 ( at least in the Navy). You don't get money to live off base until E-5.

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SOS, I agree with you 100000%. I'm not trying to deflect from the food stamps issue when I say that we've never done as good a job taking care of the troops as we should be doing. The condition of base housing for our enlisted troops is terrible. The military has been working on that but no where near fast enough.

Both of my daughters are married to service members. One's husband is a Gunny in the 5th Marines at Pendleton, the other is a Captian in the army at Ft. Benning.

I've personally witnessed problems they both have had with base housing. When they call for maintenance, the Civilian contractors who have the mainetnance contract couldn't give any less of a damn if it was possible.

Its shameful.

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Excellent post! If everyone can get so worked up about 2 foreign countries fighting then why can't the same people get fired up about taking care of our own?

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I never said you don't have a right to disagree but if you do then you're not a true American nor believe in putting us first. If you feel it's divisive it's because you know what I said has merit.

Do you really want to live in a country that doesn't take care of it's own military. Im a Plankowner and served in the Navy. Since you did also then you know that the ones having to get food stamps are the lower ranked people. If you can't take care of your own, first, you have no business helping others.

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I take issue with you seeing these as binary choices.

Support America First or Fight the Commies. We are the most powerful nation in human history with the richest economy ever developed. We can certainly do both

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Im a Plankowner and served in the Navy

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Pretty cool to be a plankowner

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Since you did also then you know that the ones having to get food stamps are the lower ranked people

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As a guy who stupidly had a child while I was an E-4, I received WIC my first couple years of fatherhood to cover food costs. I wholeheartedly agree that is no way to treat servicemembers but I made a choice without fully understanding the financial impact at the time. It was on me to be in that position.

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Excellent post! If everyone can get so worked up about 2 foreign countries fighting then why can't the same people get fired up about taking care of our own?

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I'm more pissed that the Biden Administration has spent 6 TRILLION dollars and not taken care of the troops than I am that they spent $100 Billion to destroy Russia's army without losing any American service members. In my thinking, that $100B expense is going to pay itself back several fold.

We haven't actually given $100 Billion of cash to Ukraine, a lot of that was for weapons that need to be replaced by our defense industry which means more jobs and $ into our economy. With Russia shitting the bed on the battlefield, no one is going to want shitty Russian weapons, we're getting ready to sell $100's of billions of equipment to the world. At least we'll get something tangible from our Ukrainian assistance.