Nobody believed that this might happen. My bet was that there's nothing for Putin to gain, only a downfall. My sister has a coworker girl, a refuge from Mariupol. She told something like ,,They told us, few days before the Russians invaded, face to face and via television, that everyone should evacuate, but we didn't believed. People kept on living their daily lives, taking children to kinder gardens, buying groceries at shops and taking bus to job. Then few days later we saw buildings getting hit by rockets''
Throw enough money at anything.... and you can do that. Yet we have veterans with mental disabilities sleeping under park benches, TV commercials soliciting money to help veterans whose whose body's were shattered and torn by ANOTHER war that cost over a trillion dollars and accomplished absolutely nothing that apparently the Federal government doesn't have the money to help, a VA that epitomizes incompetency at its finest, police departments laying off officers for reasons of budget shortfalls, an infrastructure that hasn't been upgraded since Eisenhower for the most part, school systems that can't pay teachers, schools with no security falling victims to psychopaths....... and the list goes on and on. So yeah, lets send Ukraine another $20B because "Putin will surely march in on Paris like Hitler did". You're clueless. Point the nukes and all our firepower at Putin, call his bs, and let him know.... one step beyond Ukraine's borders... and your country's f'ing toast. You people think Putin will quit, that he's getting beat. The only thing Putin is getting is more pissed off. He doesn't care about body bags... how f'ing hard is that for you guys to understand? We're sending money down another black hole for no reason other than the military industrial complex needs another war. And it will be to no avail. Draw the line at Ukraine's borders and if he crosses... we'll give him a f'ing war. That... or do it now. This half assed sh*t will go on for years. Just like Afghanistan. Edit: Ya know how you stop a f'ing bully? Ya beat the sh*t of him, you don't use a smaller kid as your proxy. If you want peace on the playground... step up and make it happen... or go about your business. You don't keep picking up the weaker kid and giving him hope.
And that is just it. We all know both countries already have their nuclear dicks pointing at each other, so there will be no more aggressive action that that, and this shitty land battle will continue for years. But I guess that is why the real meat comes to the table when it comes down to the point of it..."Nuclear deterrent". It's working!
Heh, are any of them uranium miners? Might as well long a few, since the Iran deal is buggered, and North Korea is prolly upping their game.