(01-05-2023, 10:59 AM)WingerDinger Wrote:

(01-05-2023, 10:45 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Are you against spending on defense?  Because the money we spend on Ukraine is basically defense spending.  And it's cheap, too, as I pointed out.  We spend $800 billion a year to counter our potential adversaries, mainly Russia and China.  $50 billion, so the Ukrainians can destroy the Russian army, is really cheap.  And it puts a check on the possibility of a wider war.  If the Russians take Ukraine, where do you think they would stop?  Putin wants to reunite the old Soviet Union.  There are a lot of countries who used to be part of the Soviet Union.  You sound like you're in favor of appeasement.  You a fan of Neville Chamberlain?  Weakness invites aggression.

So you want to keep giving our money to a country that's fighting in a war to stop another country that we 'could possibly' go to war with in the future?

Well, with that sort of thinking, let's just spend all of the money and take every country out on the map and we can rule the world.. Cause, you never know, right?

Your second sentence makes no sense because "every other country on the map" has not been the victim of such aggression as we have seen in Ukraine.   

And if we don't spend the money defending Ukraine, we'll be right in the situation you suggest- spending money defending a whole bunch of other countries because we ignored aggression and allowed Putin to start on his plan to reconquer the old Soviet satellites.  Your suggestion that we abandon Ukraine because it costs money is penny wise and pound foolish.  If we don't stand up to this aggression now, we will be in a much wider war later.

History shows that weakness and appeasement invite further aggression.

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