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      There was a comment further down that said “don’t call it a proxy war, it’s not” but didn’t provide any reason lmao

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        Well they love to jack off about hard men making hard decisions while hard, kind of ruins the whole fantasy if they set the whole thing up instead of having to react with steely stoicism to events outside their control

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    kind-vladimir-ilyich “Maybe Ukrainians shouldn’t keep dying in this war when the west has no intention of accepting them into NATO”

    maybe-later-kiddofinger-wag “This proxy war is a great return on investment because we don’t have to care for any of the Ukrainian veterans. Got a blown off leg? Slava Ukraini and get back in the front line, patriot!”

    Anyway, something about Soviets and Russians throwing waves of soldiers and elderly people to get slaughtered to win an inch or something

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      Dumb opinions about a heavily propagandize war an ocean away is one thing.

      But this? this is the kind of delusion that calls everything else you say into question

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        People aay the strangest things to justify our military spending.

        I remember once someone responded to the budget increase by saying that “they need to pay the troops, their was a raise for them in the budget.” Do they believe even 1 of those 800+ billions annually goes to paying da troops? A lot of military families are on SNAP, they pay them shit. You could give them a raise and still not scratch the defense budget

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        It’s not an opinion that providing weapons is cheaper than providing soldiers. And it’s certainly not an opinion about the merits of being involved in the first place.

        Factually, if you’re going to be involved, weapons are cheaper than boots. That’s it. I don’t like being involved at all.

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          The way how your comment was phrased, it look like you were saying the bulk of US military spending is on veteran care, which would be an absurd claim.

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      There was a citation in the original post. The screenshot cut it off.

      The total cost of the US post-9/11 wars is $8 trillion by 2050, approximately 1/3 of which will go to veteran care and the majority of which has not yet been paid.

      Yes, 1/3 by 2050 is not most. My bad.

      Yes, it will continue to rise after 2050.

      The statement that funding another country’s military is cheaper than putting boots on the ground isn’t a hot take or even a position. It is objectively true.

      I don’t like war. I’m not cheering for war. I don’t endorse the parent post’s take about it being a proxy war (have you never contributed to a conversation while simultaneously suppressing the urge to ackchyually the other person?). And I do hope that humanitarian assistance is provided down the line by the parties involved.

      Call it a proxy war, or don’t. It doesn’t make any difference to me what people want to label it. That doesn’t change the objective truth about the cost difference. Either way, I would love more of my tax dollars to be steered away from war and toward the problems in my own country.

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        The statement that funding another country’s military is cheaper than putting boots on the ground isn’t a hot take or even a position. It is objectively true.

        No one here is arguing about the accounting (aside from doubting that most of it is going to the VA). Of course its cheaper! Its also a disgusting and ghoulish thing to endorse. That’s why it got posted here.

        I don’t like war. I’m not cheering for war. I don’t endorse the parent post’s take about it being a proxy war (have you never contributed to a conversation while simultaneously suppressing the urge to ackchyually the other person?).

        I’m not enthusiastic enough about accounting to view a gross and inhuman statement that endorses “fighting to the last Ukrainian” because its cheaper and good for US empire, and think, “well its horrible, but i can’t argue with that math.”

        And that’s not an “akshually” that’s a statement of principle. NATO supporting ghouls are no better than the nazis they arm and support. They deserve a spot in the pit next to them barbara-pit

        That doesn’t change the objective truth about the cost difference

        If that’s what you care enough about to post over here, or see statements endorsing proxy war and only care enough to congratulate their objectively true math, then fuck you.

        You can say you hate war all you want, but when it comes down to it you don’t care about them making a nakedly evil and indefensiblely ghoulish position, you care more about math so pigpoop

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          Have you considered that I agree with your take, and that I think this is the sort of callous justification that the bean counters use when making these sorts of decisions?

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            No I havent, and i don’t care what you claim to believe. Say you are against war all you want. You saw a post say dead Ukrainians and Russians is good for the US, and that the US paying for it all is good because its cheaper. And your first reaction was, “math checks out.”

            That’s even how you were just trying to justify it a moment ago. You didn’t say, that person is wrong and I’m actually against NATO and this kind of thinking. You said its not even a take, just “objectively true math.”

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    “Formerly your biggest advesary”

    Like yeah if you spend decades scaring yourself with ghost stories I guess the result seems impressive for spending over a hundred billion dollars. This is like the bear patrol episode of the simpsons.

    “They also have the ability to sever Europe’s need for Russian energy”

    How’s that working out so far?

    The VA comment is matt-jokerfied. Omg literally just mask off “it’s not our boys dying”

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      “They also have the ability to sever Europe’s need for Russian energy”

      I assume this is because the official story atm seems to be that Ukraine blew up Nordstream 2 (and definitely without any help from the Americans wink wink nudge nudge)

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    It’s fascinating to see these people come to something of an understanding, albeit superficial, of some of the most obvious realist motives and calculations behind the US’s essential involvement in Ukraine as if they were stumbling onto a revelation, which should have been not only obvious before it even began (the US’s foreign policy in this regard hasn’t changed in 30 years) but should have made obvious how incomparably dangerous the US is, only for them to then say: “actually this is smart and good, I love paying top $$$ to impoverish Slavs and Chinese people”.

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    Yes, ladies and gentlemen and enbies of the war crimes tribunal, these posts right here.