WHAT ABOUT THE $20 BILLION THE U.S. IS SENDING UKRAINE?
ACCORDING TO COMMON MATH, IT MAY BE CHEAPER THAN A WORLD WAR. ACCORDING TO RONALD REAGAN, A WIN-WIN. ACCORDING TO PUTIN & TUCKER, BAD NEWS: NATO WINS, RUSSIA LOSES.
The support for Ukraine is not merely global in scale, it is almost universal. In the United States it is mostly bipartisan. The Reagan-Trump rational national sentiment will swat away the nattering nabobs of negativism and doomsayers.
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After Barack Obama and Joe Biden colluded with Russia by sending blankets to Ukraine instead of weapons, and paid Russia for oil, Donald Trump armed Ukraine twice, in 2017 and 2019, and made America independent of Russian oil.
Contrary to the disingenuous propaganda from the usual suspects opposed to U.S. aid, the U.S. has won every single war it has funded.
The U.S. has left most conflicts after it met its political and/or military objectives. No war ever waged however, will be free of losses. Meanwhile, the isolationist propagadists conveniently omit history: that America has freed billions of Europeans, our very own forefathers; Arabs too (Iraqis, Lybians, Morrocans, Tunisians); and Asians (Taiwanese, Japanese, Okinawans, and Filipinos) from tyranny. These folk eventually arrived on American shores to enrich our nation since WWI, WWII, and the Cold War.
Europeans are responsible for 97% of human achievement and inventions in the sciences and culture, architecture, medicine, biochemisty, genetics, physics, music and art, and space exploration, so why should the United States not defend our own brothers in their time of need? Face it: We need them far more than they need us!
The nattering nabobs of negativism appear ignorant about American history. It is that our nation always had an interventionist policy. At least since George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and John Adams, and certainly since Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump!
OUR FAVORITE TV, AND NOW YOU TUBE PUNDIT, HAS BEEN LYING TO OUR FACES FOR YEARS. JUST THIS WEEK I WATCHED POSSIBLY A THOUSAND AMERICAN MILITARY VEHICLES TIED ATOP ENDLESS RAILROAD CARS PASS THE GYÖR RAILROAD STATION ON THEIR WAY TO UKRAINE - VIA SLOVAKIA THROUGH KOMÁROM - A CITY THAT STRADDLES HUNGARY AND SLOVAKIA. THOUSANDS MORE CAME THROUGH BEFORE I HAD ARRIVED IN GYÖR, AND THOUSANDS MORE WILL PASS THROUGH AFTERWARD.
In cold numbers, a quarter to one third of the world’s population was freed by the “detestable,” “greedy,” “profiteering” military-industrial complex now in the business of freeing 40 million Ukrainians. (Shall we ignore the trillions of wealth in the ground that supplies European factories and homes with raw materials: oil, gas, coal, farm goods, and feeds and heats the European, African, and Asian continents?)
Losses are the byproducts of war. This was especially the case after America was kneecaped by Democrats who hammered us during Vietnam. Meanwhile, American honor had left Iraq a democracy, albeit not a Jeffersonian kind, and left Afghanistan far better off with freedoms for women and children. That is, until another Democrat "president" kneecaped Afghanistan’s women and children, that nation’s freedoms, as well as America’s.
I refer to the Democrat president who never had any respect for women and children, and not even his own nation’s welfare.
The Russians are tired of Putin’s “special military operation.” This sentiment can be overheard at every supermarket from Moscow to St. Petersburg to Volvograd, from Budapest to Warsaw to Berlin, from the tens of thousands of Russian widows and orphans, and Russia’s limbless, maimed soldiers, hanging on to their crutches.
The Russian soldiers running away from battle are tired of it. They have no idea why they’re at war, or why Russian commanders shoot them in the back as they throw down their weapons in disgust.
Accordingly, unless a negotiated settlement is in the works (which I had recommended on February 27, 2022), it will come down to which side runs out of steam, cash, ammo, or will.
Desperate, the Kremlin spews out propaganda instead of victory, and hangs in there hoping for political change in the west more favorable to defunding Washington, instead of defunding Moscow.
Putin assumes, wrongly, that the west has little stomach, and even less cujones, to win wars.
HOW ARE U.S. DOLLARS BEING SPENT IN UKRAINE - AND WHAT ABOUT THE CORRUPTION?
VIDEO: BANKROLLING THE WAR IN UKRAINE
Far more than Democrats, Republicans are especially divided. The Kremlin-propagandized isolationists in the media are making money off of cynical (and mostly false) narratives. You Tube pundits drunk with their own self-importance, flip off centuries of American courage, honor, obligations, sacrifice, spent treasure, and tradition.
The NEW YORK POST agrees: Rebeccah Heinrichs
Biden must give Ukraine what it needs to win — and literally make Russia pay
The United States fought two world wars at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives and unimaginable treasure. It won both. The U.S. won the Cold War because Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, Nixon and Reagan never backed down. Reagan won the war by bankrupting and then collapsing the Soviet Union.
Reagan crushed the Evil Empire because Americans grew up reading Ayn Rand’s observations about honor and courage, of never backing down to threats.
The Iron Lady of the U.K. and Sir Winston never backed down. England is free.
Boris Johnson, the former U.K. leader of the free world, never backed down.
Israel’s leaders have never backed down. Neither have Hungary’s!
Neither has Donald Trump who has armed Ukraine twice, right after his predecessors, Obama and Biden, have refused to arm Ukraine even once!
If Orange Man won again, an America that has never taken a knee would be free again.
I speak of Ronald Reagan’s America - the Shining City on the Hill - the America that has never backed down.
Funny thing isn’t it? Neither Reagan nor Trump have precipitated a war.
Both prevented wars by never backing down to threats by nations hostile to America!
So why would any Republican with a sense of self and a historical sense want to take a knee for an enemy?
“America First” is not a principle meant for Surrender Monkeys.
THE WAR IN UKRAINE IS NOT A PARTISAN ISSUE. IT IS A GLOBAL SECURITY ISSUE!
ISOLATIONISM IS NOT A PARTISAN SENTIMENT. IT IS AN ANTI-AMERICAN SENTIMENT.
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