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Originally Posted by Hugh
America wasn’t ploughing money and military resources into a bottomless pit - most of the money went to US arms manufacturers, to replace and update old/surplus military equipment, and the military aid was costed (inflated) at its replacement value (which the USA was going to do anyway), rather than at its actual depreciated value…
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/new-a...ficial-figures |
Are they, along with a host of other nations, funding the Ukrainian war effort, or not?
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Trump has betrayed Ukraine by taking Russia's line and holding back on aid and intelligence for the country.
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That is a totally false take.
Trump is taking Trump’s line. He, as part of his election promises, vowed to end the war in Ukraine.
Pressuring Ukraine into talking, is his line not Russia’s