18 months into the war, and Biden finally deigned to mention that “sending money to Ukraine” is a figure of speech for replenishing the American weaponry supplies while sending old and outdated weapons to Ukraine. It’s extremely good for the US economy, it’s extremely good for the US military, and nobody would be doing it if it weren’t so.
I’m glad he finally said it but why did it have to take so long?
I’ve kept my mouth shut on your blog here for several years, after an initial 2020 or so attempt to warn you. You’re the one pro Ukrainian voice I follow, because you are Ukrainian and mostly sane. It’s frustrating listening to you, because you seem to think that Western support of Ukraine has something to do with maintaining Ukrainian national independence, when it has clearly from at least 2014 been about destroying Ukraine’s independence, utterly.
Ukraine – I should say the Ukraine, because it will soon no longer be a nation, merely a region or rump state dominated by Russia – has been demographically annihilated this past decade. The women – like you – have either fled, and/or are refusing to have more than two children. The men have fled, or else are being slaughtered on the battlefield. I’ve resisted the impulse to tell you you and N should return to fight in the trenches repeatedly. If you really believe in this war, especially if you’re a feminist who believes “men and women are equal in every way” you ought to be there fighting. N in particular should have volunteered. Yet you remain Illinois.
This war, as I warned you several years ago, is about NATO war profiteering, and the left’s insane animus against the anti gay Russians. There may be an occulted Ashkenazi “Khazarian” agenda at play here as well, I’m too naive, historically illiterate and spiritually exhausted to definitively tell.
Whatever. Do you expect me, or most Americans to care? When our own nationhood and sovereignty is being eviscerated before our eyes? Seriously, Clarissa.. Do you want our soldiers – I say our, because I assume you understand yourself as primarily American, not primarily Jewish or Ukrainian – to deploy to Israel to fight Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Turkey, Syria, who ever..?
You make light of hundreds or so billions being sent to the corruption pit in Ukraine. it’s only a little more of a tenth of our total defense budget.. Honest to fk, you are nuts. As are the Zionists. We are not fighting these insane bullst wars anymore. If you support Ukraine or Israel, go there and fight. The asshats in DC who are driving us into WW 3 are done. Or else this country is..
Pick a side. God gave us two great Oceans for a reason. Pick a coast, pick a side. If you are really American, be an American. Don’t ask us to go to war with Russia, or the Arabs, or the Persians, or the Turks, or the Muslims.. Let Ukraine and Israel take care of themselves. The fact that ultimately probably cannot is not our problem.
Honest to God. You came here to live in peace, didn’t you? Let us be at peace.
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This is a weird jumble of weird weirdness but the part about N having to “return to fight” stood out to me. Where exactly is he supposed to return? He’s Russian by origin. He’s never in his life been in Ukraine. Should he return to Russia and fight on the Russian side?
As for American soldiers, I have said now maybe 500 times that no, I don’t want them to fight overseas. Nobody does. Mostly because they don’t know how to do it, having lost absolutely every military endeavor since the 1940s. But you missed all that, just as you missed where we are actually from, and every other thing I said.
To conclude, whether the US goes to war with Russia or “the Arabs” isn’t up to me or to you. It’s up to Russia and “the Arabs”. If they decide to go to war for reasons of their own, there’s nothing you’ll be able to do about it. People do things for their own reasons, and there’s nothing you can do about it. It’s time to grow up and start noticing that.
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What do you expect from a person who hasn’t been able to notice that my husband is Russian after I repeat it pretty much daily? His name wouldn’t even be N if he were Ukrainian. It would be M.
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” hasn’t been able to notice that my husband is Russian”
What I’ve noticed is that westerners (pro or anti russian) almost all try to ascribe rational motivations to the russian invasion (whether the NATO boogeyman or invasion corridors or fear of the ghey) while cultural insiders (pro or anti putin) all say it’s about ideology of russian empire and cultural superiority…. even the closest they get to rational motivation is ideological: russian fear of democracy (russians noticing Ukrainians get to choose their governments and asking themselves why they can’t do the same).
In the past week, Russians have been storming an old coal mine heap near Avdiivka. I remember that heap well. There’s literally nothing else there. They have thrown several columns of tanks, from 5 to 30 tanks each into the offensive. An insane number of armored vehicles. An extraordinary number of troops.
As of now, they have lost all of it. Military commentators both on Russian and Ukrainian sides keep asking, why? Why not redirect those troops over to Tokmak where they could really achieve something? Why not stop storming that old ash heap if it’s coming at such cost?
But as you say, this is not rational. There’s no logic to any of it. Cultural competence is in very short supply.
\ There may be an occulted Ashkenazi “Khazarian” agenda at play here as well, I’m too naive, historically illiterate and spiritually exhausted to definitively tell. … nuts. As are the Zionists.
The conspiratorial worldview combined with antisemitic consciousness was what stood out to me .
Anonymous, it’s pity you don’t know Russian, unlike me and Clarissa.
I follow various Russian bloggers and you would fit like a glove in pro-Putin circles and even in many anti-Putin ones. They are big on conspiracies.
// You came here to live in peace, didn’t you? Let us be at peace.
If America willingly steps down from its role as a global hegemon, all Americans will feel it fast enough, first in their bank accounts and then in other ways too.
I also like that “at peace” is “a gentle way of saying that someone is dead.” 🙂
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Known to doubtful. Known: that Hamas terrorists butchered some 1400 Jews in an unprovoked attack. Doubtful: which side fired a rocket that damaged a hospital. Nothing that allies to the Hamas barbarians can say can change the mind of Israel fighting a regime change war in Gaza.
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I’m not convinced about military spending benefiting the economy, but the cost is probably less than Iraq/Afghanistan, so I doubt if the effect is significant.
Generally the best time to attack is when your enemy is bogged down somewhere else, which is why Russia’s Chinese ‘friends’ picked this moment to demand concessions on Vladivostok.
Taking the withdrawal from Afghanistan as a sign of weakness just seems like a lack of basic military knowledge because all it means is that the Pentagon is free to focus on this war.
“America’s response to World War II was the most extraordinary mobilization of an idle economy in the history of the world. During the war 17 million new civilian jobs were created, industrial productivity increased by 96 percent, and corporate profits after taxes doubled”
https://prospect.org/health/way-won-america-s-economic-breakthrough-world-war-ii/
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Keynsian arguments for military or other government spending assume a period of high unemployment. They don’t really apply during period of labor shortages when companies are trying to rebuild domestic supply chains.
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