re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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You really are a complete idiot 100% controlled by emotions and by all your posts totally lacking in intellectual capability.

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He just comes here because he's desperate for attention, and you give it to him.

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What, that the average person would rather secure the border than give ten times that amount of cash to a bull shite war in Europe? Sorry I don’t need a link to tell you that. You’re in a warmongering cult that won’t ever hear the other side of argument.

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Those "bull shite wars" in Europe have in the past forced American intervention and caused the suffering of millions. Like or not the US has a vested role in maintaining the rules based order in Europe and the world. I would rather fight the Russians here in Ukraine (where we don't have treaty obligations) than in Warsaw, Tallinn, Riga, or Vilnius where we do. The aid we're giving to Ukraine is probably the most worthwhile expenditure of foreign aid in recent history: we are tying the Russians in a quagmire of their own making, causing the degradation of Russian conventional forces and equipment, and removing Russia as a conventional threat to greater Europe for a decade or more as they rebuild their forces all without the cost of American blood.

I was a non-interventionist/isolationist growing up but realized in the modern world that policy will not work. Vast oceans no longer give protection and I don't want to live in a world dominated by China or Russia.

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I was a non-interventionist/isolationist growing up but realized in the modern world that policy will not work. Vast oceans no longer give protection and I don't want to live in a world dominated by China or Russia.

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You're doing nothing to fight China. China owns huge amounts of US debt, has hug tracts of agricultural land, and killing us with fentanyl by importing it through Mexico.
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This investigation sought to better situate Mexico’s role in the fentanyl trade. Chinese companies produce the vast majority of fentanyl, fentanyl analogues, and fentanyl precursors, but Mexico is becoming a major transit and production point for the drug and its analogues as well, and Mexican traffickers appear to be playing a role in its distribution in the United States.

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So you were half intelligent when you were young, and then regressed. It happens.

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removing Russia as a conventional threat to greater Europe for a decade or more as they rebuild their forces all without the cost of American blood.

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Nearly all of Russia's military power is legacy equipment from the Soviet era. Given it's economic and demographic woes it's unlikely to ever restore what's been lost. The only way forward is democratization, which would also remove Russia is a military threat. Otherwise Russia sinks into irrelevance. Win-Win.

OML does repeatedly say Putin is terrible, but where he falls down is that for practical purposes he expects Putin to keep agreements that the US and other western powers would have to pressure Ukraine to accept. OML thinks Ukraine should be pressured into taking such a deal nevertheless and most others on this thread don't. Particularly, he's especially wrong to think that Putin is BOTH (A) unreliable enough to nuke the west should we support Ukraine pushing Russia back out of the country AND (B) reliable enough to hold to a deal.

Politico

2020, Chinese investors owned about 192,000 acres of U.S. agricultural land valued at about $1.9 billion, according to Politico

In the eighties it was the Japanese buying real estate. They can't pick it up and haul it back to their country.

The biggest landowner in Catahoula Parish is a Belgian insurance company.

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What, that the average person would rather secure the border than give ten times that amount of cash to a bullshite war in Europe?

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YOu have zero idea of what average is, being blow average as you are.

FTR, there is zero reason that both cannot be done at the same time. Spending on national security by backing Ukraine is actually cheap as hell. It takes nothing away from any border fixes.