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Ukraine tells critics of slow counteroffensive to 'shut up' (www.reuters.com)

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (101 children)

two sentences is hardly a rant and there are plenty of quotes from american officials and armchair generals about how this war is great because it's degrading "our enemy" without costing american lives.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (100 children)

I believe that degrading the army of one of the US greatest geopolitical world rivals at the cost of roughly 3% of the DoD budget is money well spent. In that there is no US blood is an added advantage. The Ukrainians are fighting this war for their own purpose, to reject tyrannical rule. That's something that's happened for a millennium, including the American revolution.

The US didn't impose this war, 100,000 Russians invading did. As France helped the US during the revolution, the US helps Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

I believe that degrading the army of one of the US greatest geopolitical world rivals at the cost of roughly 3% of the DoD budget is money well spent.

Which is why so many nations are smelling the blood in the water and casting off their western neocolonial overlords in Africa right now.