Quote (InsaneBobb @ 2 Feb 2024 19:56)
I'm not here to educate you. I'm here to point and laugh. The US Government is dropping hundreds of Billions into Ukraine, and most of the weapons and cash is going MIA. It's a money laundering scam, and we've passed 7:1 female:male in Ukraine because of the lie.
From where I stand and what I have been arguing here for good two years is that - nobody in US (or even Europe) truly, honestly cares for an independent and sovereign Ukraine. Ukraine's future is to be used as a pawn against Russia. Hence no European accession, no NATO accession and etc. As I argued a few posts above - an average European (and an American) cannot tell an Ukrainian from a Russian even if their life depends on it, yet they know which one is corrupt and rotten and which one is an opressed fighter for freedom and democracy
Ukraine has been used as a laundering ground to achieve three simultaneous goals:
1) handicap and destabilize a "perceived" rival / foreign threat of a rising Russia by using a willing proxy and frankly - outdated equipment made to fight Russkies in the 1980s-1990s. The newest gadgets like F35s, Stealth bombers and long range ballistic missiles have not been transferred.
2) make your NATO allies buy and your domestic taxpayers "OKAY" the purchase of the latest gadgets of Raytheon, General Dynamics, Northropp Grumman and Boeing while simultaneously ensuring there is no significant competition from European producers (Rheinmetall, ThyssenKrupp and so on).
3) test out new combat realities without direct NATO force losses, while in complete control of the battlefield and telemetry (notice the evolution of modern combat to FPV drones which noone really knows what to do with as of 2024, hence eg Israelis hurriedly welding-on drone cages to their Merkavas prior to Gaza invasion).
This post was edited by Malopox on Feb 2 2024 01:28pm