oh you mean like the millions to joes brother for building houses in iraq...that i bet are still not built?I'd sure like to know how many "dollars" given to Ukraine came back to fill our politicians' pockets.
Sadly, something has to happen that will enable Vlad to save face so he can declare a “victory” as the Russians historically don’t respond well to leaders who fail. The wise thing for him to have done after the initial failure to seize Kiev would have been for him declare that “the goals of the special military operation have been achieved”, claim “victory” and stop. Instead he’s persisted and got himself in a deep hole. Frankly, I blame a lack of leadership on OUR side for even allowing this mess to start. A true leader would have seen the Russian buildup prior to the invasion, and said “No” upfront with the caveat Ethan an attack would have brought NATO in on the Ukraine side, while firmly reminding him that both the US AND Russian “guaranteed” Ukrainian sovereignty when they agreed to give up Their nukes. Vlad would have backed off and it would be a non issue. Sadly, Uncle Joe was clueless and here we are…Putin has to do something to convince the world that the tiger has teeth. Sadly for him it’s lose-lose. His forces would get murdered in a straight up street fight with Western forces - he would lose. control of his airspace almost immediately - and ultimately there’s no way for Russia to come out on top in a nuclear exchange.
ThisIt sickens me to my core the amount of money in cash and military hardware we have given to Ukraine and in regards to the cash with no to very little accountability of where the money is going. From what I’ve seen reported on multiple news outlets is that many of Ukraine’s high level cabinet and government officials that had access to this cash have either been fired or have disappeared along with millions of dollars.
I’ve said this before, the US needs to STOP trying to be the police force for the world especially since we have enough of our own problems here at home.
Enough is enough already.
My opinion.
This. Except he already knows. This is not the first time he has postured like this.At best Putin is posturing (aka maskirovka) since he's KGB, at worst he's mad.
Someone in the Kremlin needs to remind him that Russia is downwind from any tactical nuke he may throw at Ukraine.