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In reply to the discussion: We can not fucking do any fucking thing militarily versus Russia vis-a-vis Ukraine. [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)the U.S. being nuked.//
But yeah, what you said.
Besides, we just spent over $5 billion unseating this elected fella, and we know, with dead certainty, that Russia is going to do EXACTLY what Russia did. We didn't really think the Russians were just gonna watch Russian supporters and Russian bases be distributed amongst a bunch of, well, whoever they are at the moment, them? There was a lot of support outside our efforts, and we played along with that.
And our analysts didn't give this a billion percent probability? Oh please.
So we will play with trade sanctions and crap for a while, I guess. But it seems so silly to think about war when this is nearly the most likely thing that could happen.
I wouldn't be surprised if the administration figured that Putin was better in charge than what's his name. And this distracts from a lot of talk about jobs and cutting social security and stuff. Heck, we get into a war with someone there will be an illusory boost to the economy, maybe it won't look like it is in the crapper for a third of the population over the next couple years. We've spent more American lives for less than that before, I think.