re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

From a business standpoint I dont understand investing anything more into it. Lets review:

When you add up all the funding, US,EU, NGOs, UN, World Bank, etc etc it has to be 200 billion at this point. The US alone is 113 billion (they conveniently leave out a huge chunk of money USAID has given in addition to the "stated" amount) and the world bank another 41 billion.

And what has been accomplished: they have lost a good portion of their country. They have lost most of their adult males (dead, wounded, or left). The UN says 31 million have now crossed the border (and I doubt many are immigrants).

So now we will throw another 60 billion (when 200 billion would not do it in a pristine situation) into a disaster of a situation.

What on earth do we think the results will be?????? Other than more people getting rich, and a lot more being killed?

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And here is an unbiased poll:

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New poll: Nearly 70% of Americans want talks to end war in Ukraine

The survey suggests Biden administration policy toward Russia is increasingly out of step with public opinion


The American public is sick of this graft and wants it to end

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someone didn't actually read the article

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As the House weighs whether to approve new aid for Ukraine, 48% of respondents said they support new funding as long as it is conditioned on progress toward a diplomatic solution to the war. Others disagreed over whether the U.S. should halt all aid (30%) or continue funding without specific conditions (22%).

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How about we don’t give them shite.

ISW Update

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Key Takeaways:

Ukrainian shortages of ammunition and other war materiel resulting from delays in the provision of US military assistance may be making the current Ukrainian front line more fragile than the relatively slow Russian advances in various sectors would indicate.

The rate of Russian advance west of Avdiivka has recently slowed, although Russian forces likely retain the capability to intensify offensive operations in the area at a moment of their choosing.

Ukrainian actors conducted large-scale drone strikes against energy infrastructure and military assets within Russia on the night of March 12 to 13.

The governor of the pro-Russian Moldovan autonomous region of Gagauzia, Yevgenia Gutsul, claimed on March 13 that her recent meetings with Russian officials in Russia led to deepening economic ties between Gagauzia and Russia, which the Kremlin likely hopes to exploit as part of its wider efforts to destabilize Moldova and prevent Moldova from joining the EU.

Russian sources claimed that Russian forces repelled another limited cross-border incursion by the all-Russian pro-Ukrainian Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), Freedom of Russia Legion (LSR), and Siberian Battalion in Belgorod and Kursk oblasts on the night of March 12 and the morning of March 13.

Russian forces recently made confirmed advances near Avdiivka amid continued positional engagements along the entire frontline on March 13.

Russian authorities continue efforts to censor protests of wives and mothers of mobilized soldiers ahead of the Russian presidential election.

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I wonder how long Putin waits to "liberate" other "pro-Russian" areas....

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And we also would have been blatantly upfront that it was us who destroyed the pipeline You idiot. Biden and Nuland said they were going to do it. I think even Tom Cotton and Lion Ted said it should be stopped or destroyed. You figure it out.

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Who gives a f**k if we destroyed it or not? Russia attacked one of our pipelines in 2021. Putin FAFO payback is a bitch and the USA can do more and will do more to anyone who wants to FAFO again.

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We should give Ukraine all our cluster munitions since we can’t use and have to spend money to destroy. We should give more Bradley’s we have I storage so we don’t need to upkeep them. And give them munitions that are about to or have gone into their end of usable life

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I'd rather it be buried at the bottom of the sea than have it be used to kill our brothers in Christ.

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Why do you hate your country so much?

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GOP_Tiger

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For those of you that don’t fully understand the term RINO, GOP checks all the boxes.

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For those of you that don’t fully understand the term RINO, GOP checks all the boxes.

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If you consider the foundation of the Republican party to be conservatism then MAGAism is very much RINO.

For many years Reagan was considered the best modern Republican president but I have watched MAGA shift away from him because many of his views don't align with the MAGA movement. An excellent example is Ukraine. Reagan would have been pumping weapons into Ukraine at an unprecedented rate even if he had to surreptitiously move them through a 3rd country.

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For those of you that don’t fully understand the term RINO, GOP checks all the boxes

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He really does, mate. The only one worse is Coeur Du Tigre.