Biden asks Congress for $40 billion to support Ukraine, replenish US disaster aid and bolster border
Biden asks Congress for $40 billion to support Ukraine, replenish US disaster aid and bolster border
The Biden administration is asking Congress to provide more than $13 billion in emergency defense aid to Ukraine and an additional $8 billion for humanitarian support through the end of the year.
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Fire's gettin low, better throw some more paper on it to keep it going.
Would you prefer that the world turn its back on Ukraine and let Russia continue to invade them without support?
Yeah, he would. There are lots of people who would rather bend over for Russia than think for one second. Putin has zero love for America and actively attacks our infrastructure and companies by sponsoring hackers. If you support Russia you are a traitor or an idiot.
or, like, not american? lol
Would you prefer that the world turn its back on Ukraine
Yes.
Yeah, but you're a mad Tankie so we just ignore that. You lot have been barking up the same trees since the 50s.
It's the alt-right isolation types I worry about as they actually have more chance of getting into power than commies these days.
Why are trash tankies like you even around?
Says the true tankie. How many tanks do you want to send to Ukraine?
Not what "tankie" means, but as many as they ask for
You claim you are not a tankie, yet you want to roll in the tanks!
I'd prefer peace negotiations.
How do you see those going?
Probably not great after Zelensky made negotiations illegal
I don't see them going, because the US is against peace negotiations lol
How does Ukraine start negotiating with a country that has invaded theirs?
Probably the same way that's been done for centuries? Armistice, followed by a peace treaty?
Who the fuck would trust Russia in an armistice. They neg on deal after deal. Hell, they promised not to invade Ukraine if they gave up their nukes. Look how well they stuck to that one.
Ukraine violated both Minsk agreements
Many wars have ended with one side accepting a surrender to a country they hate ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Like the deal they already had as part of Ukraine giving up its nukes, that Putin ignored to invade this time?
By involving the same country that was responsible for setting up the scenario where it was invaded, and having that country also not go out of its way to cancel the peace talks that were going on, because they threatened its imperialist hegemony in the region.
The same way anyone starts negotiating with anyone: open a dialogue and exchange demands, and then work to make concessions and compromises. They won't do that, though, because then the infinite money spigot from the US will shut off because America doesn't want this war to ever end.
You tell me where you live, I'll break into your house and steal half your stuff.
Instead of fighting back or calling the police, we can negotiate so I can have half your stuff. Sound good?
I dunno, do you have nuclear weapons that could cause the apocalypse?
Countries aren't people. The scale the work on is much greater.
You've got an important word there. Scale.
Countries aren't people but they're made up of them. It wouldn't take nuclear weapons to annihilate your household.
Russia has invaded Ukraine's home and tried to lay claim. Now you're suggesting they give up what was taken from them to satisfy your desire for peace.
The analogy the other person used is fair. In another analogy Russia is nothing more than a bully. We've long moved past the time where the advice we give is to just give the bully your money so they don't beat you up and take it anyway.
There is no such thing as a society, only individuals and families. Very true Maggie!
No, countries are qualitatively different from simply "lots of people"
The thing with nukes is that it’s suicide, and they know it. So they just use the threat of it to get whatever they want, in the hopes that the people in charge are like you and will just flop over to their demands whenever they dangle the threat.
I doubt Ukraine will demand anything less than Russia pulling out of previous held lands. Russia will doubtless demand all lands it currently occupies (and maybe even ones it claims but does not occupy). Russia's demand could be cast as peace, though really it involves giving a massive portion of Ukraine to Russia. And if you're thinking that might be temporary... well, just ask Finland, which lost 9% of its territory to a peace agreement in the Winter War after the Soviet Union invaded them.
You don't have to guess. They did publish just those demands. https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-ukraines-peace-plan-can-help-end-other-wars/
I doubt Ukraine will demand anything less than Russia pulling out of previous held lands
I doubt Ukraine will demand anything, losers don't get to decide anything.
NATO has been given the opportunity to negotiate with Minsk 1/2 and the peace talks back in April 2022, now they'll reap what they've sown.
They'd each have their own demands, and then negotiations would be finding a middle ground between "Ukraine gets everything it wants" and "Russia gets everything it wants"
Russia is contractually obligated to shoot itself in the head right now, according to a treaty they signed declaring they are bound to Ukraine’s defense should an armed force invade it. I’m not really sure what Russia plans to bring to the table when they have broken every promise they have made and stolen from Ukraine.
You’re asking Ukraine to barter with the armed robber who claims ownership of your house.
You think Ukraine should make concessions with the country that invaded them?
Yes because they cannot win on the battlefield and have lost an enormous amount of lives. Just because Russia is adversary to the US does not mean we should send 100,000’s of young people to the grave. (Meanwhile safe over in the states we wave Ukrainian flags and call them heroes as we leave them dead or mangled)
So yes reaching a compromise even if Russia was the aggressor is in the best interest of the people left in Ukraine.
Would you rather use our weaponry and intelligence and money to prolong this war for 10 years … just to have the same outcome but 20x the number of casualties?
I’m not in the states, thanks for assuming that though.
Sorry for the assumption but my comment still stands in terms of what is a realistic beneficial outcome for Ukraine at this point? Clearly China, India (probably others) are helping Russia keep its ammo stocks and munitions filled.
Other than a negotiated settlement we can have either world war 3 with NATO intervening … or we can just drag this out for 5-10 years at an enormous cost and literally 100,000’s of dead Ukrainians.
Yes. That's literally how peace negotiations work. The alternative, winning the war, precludes the necessity of peace negotiations. All negotiations in the history of negotiations are negotiations between aggressor and agressee.
For the sake of peace, yes, I think they should be willing to make concessions. That's how negotiations work.
If you refuse to offer anything you aren't really negotiating. You're just issuing demands with no exchange.
Oh yeah that worked so well for them in 1997 and 2014. Did people forget that peace negotiations have happened before and russia has broken the agreement every time?
Why would Ukraine or anyone for that matter take anything the russian federation says as not a lie? Also I think that in this case it would be stupid for Ukraine to allow russia any ability to regroup.
Thing is the only thing Putin wants is the eradication of all Ukraine.
This is a war of annihilation. There are no concessions.
Have a starting point from a man much more intelligent than I: https://youtu.be/mMZYKxgc9TE
(And a video he did 9 years ago: https://youtu.be/A2nklduvThs)
If someone came into your country and started to rape, kill and kidnap your people would you roll over and give them whatever they wanted to stop doing that?
Maybe we should break into their home and see if they want to start peace negotiations. Because nobody calls the police when that happens. Give us half your stuff and we will leave.
Oh yeah cuz Putin has just seemed so open to peace, dipshit.. it’s not like it hasn’t been tried about countless times. He doesn’t want peace, he just wants everything handed to him with zero consequence
russia is the only one preventing those
Ok, and what do you think they would look like exactly? Unless Russia are willing to leave Ukraine, there's little to talk about.
id prefer HIMARS instantly raining down on every last invader without a white flag in the sky. fuck em and the cookers supporting the genocide
Okay you bloodthirsty maniac, and what happens when they retaliate with nuclear weapons?
What nuclear weapons? The fuel got sold for vodka money and the tritium has decayed away to uselessness with Russia giving up on producing more
If that were true, do you think America and its allies could resist total war? They'd just bomb the whole country to ashes.
"By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak."
I personally dont give a fuck about Ukraine so yes. I give as much of a fuck for Ukraine as much as I give a fuck about whats going on in Sudan or Sri Lanka.
I. Dont. Care.
Those hundreds of billions of dollars are given to the banks to perpetuate this stupid war. Only ~5% of all the money donated to them has been humanitarian. The rest goes to the war machine.
Those hundreds of billions of dollars are given to the banks to perpetuate this stupid war
Where did you glean this
Straight out of their asshole.
I dont need to post any proof. You guys dont ever read any sources anyways so whats the point.
"Bro, just believe me, I definitely didn't just make all of this shit up.".
-you
How about this. Lets meet in the middle. You come up with a source that is in contrary and ill come up with a source thats in favor and we can have a discussion. Otherwise, you just want a source that you can easily disqualify.
That's not how that works. You made a claim that you can't backup. Meeting in the middle would be if you provided a source and we could discuss the validity. If your alleged source is so weak that it can be "easily disqualified" then you don't really have a source then, do you? So maybe you didn't pull it out if your own ass, but instead you saw someone else pull it out if their ass and you regurgitating their shit.
What if I concede to not having made any research prior to my claims... much like you not making any research before trying to disprove. We would be even steven and we can start from the bottom. Otherwise, you are losing a golden opportunity to educate me correctly.
Could you provide some sources on those claims?
cues up QAnon.com lol
*Qs up
I need to be QAnon to not care for Ukraine, Palestine, Ethiopia, Myanmar etc. Ok thanks for the reminder.
Yeah sounds about right.. glad we don’t have spineless losers like you in charge
How is giving dust-collecting weapons and tanks giving money to the banks exactly?
You realize that the monetary amount above isn't actual money, right? It's the worth of the goods being given that we weren't using anyways.
[citation needed]
Ok, so you're a bad person, that's all