• crackajack@reddthat.com
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    11 months ago

    The Iraq wars were expensive, because the US military was directly managing it and it went on for thirty years, if I am to include an intermittent period before 2002. Funding Ukraine is less expensive so because, and I know it’s a loaded term, the proxy and taking more direct casualties.

    And as I mentioned, lend-lease is not that expensive. Ukraine is receiving hand me downs and unwanted equipment. They’re not receiving latest state of the art weapons like the stealth bomber or Zumwalt class destroyer that cost $2 billion a piece. This will pay back overtime.

    The US isn’t a saint and have been abusive of its power as the sole hegemon (that’s why I am an advocate to reform UN and allowing multipolar world), but letting Russia get away with invading Ukraine violates the UN charter to respect national borders, a cornerstone of what kept peace in the past 80 years. A lot more will lose than just money. Same if Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were let to annex countries and commit genocide wantonly. The US provided lend-lease and financial aid to China and UK before becoming dire involved in World War 2, and that is in spite of the Great Depression.

    I understand people’s frustration with providing support to Ukraine amidst the neglect of domestic issues. But the domestic issues are the fault of neoliberal austerity policies that had been going on for decades, way before the Russo-Ukrainian war. Decades of underfunding social programmes and letting problems compound. When a new problem arises, politicians uses that to distract the people from already existing problems that are the politicians’ own doing.