• fluxion@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Unfortunately “barely enough” is closer to the mark. Ukraine should’ve had this funding last year and we should’ve been close to the next round at this point. If this is actually all America can muster when it is committed to “winning” then then thats a bit sad and scary considering the incompetent broke ass country we are trying to beat while having homecourt advantage.

    The only thing that gives me solace is the thought that this is carefully architected to bleed out Russia and not actually a show of real force.

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      6 months ago

      You have to remember that half of the political parties in the US are owned by and promote Russian interests. That’s the only reason it took 8 months to get this funding approved, and it was approved in spite of the former fuckwit president.

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      6 months ago

      If only they had oil, they’d be a free country neo-colony of Biden a long time ago

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            6 months ago

            The Black Sea Ukrainian Shelf was discovered in 2012 to contain an estimated 2 trillion cubic meters of natural gas. Access to a huge portion of it depends on Crimea which was annexed in 2014.