War economy is never sustainable in the medium-long term, and casualties taken in Ukraine alone means there's absolute not way they can win there (which is still a hypothetical, a frozen conflict slightly in their favor is still likely the best they can do for the moment) and be ready to potentially tussle with nations whose defense budget, available troops, and military technology makes Ukraine look like a joke a couple years afterwards. Not when Ukraine alone forces them to bring out mothballed hardware and most of their high-tier stuff has proven to be mediocre at best even against whatever hands-me-down NATO gave the Ukrainians, as opposed to what they keep for themselves.
Furthermore, Russia's logistics situation grows a lot grimmer the farther they are from home. Ukraine is right next and it was already not easy, the Baltics are further and any sort of effort deeper into Europe makes things even worse. And surely the war goal of an invasion that risks war not only with all of Europe but also America isn't occupying simply three tiny countries of limited strategic and economic import.
And of course, at the risk of summoning the poster that must not be named, there's on top of all that the inherent danger of entering a conflict with nuclear powers. Which nobody wants to do, no matter how deranged.
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But massively more powerful response than to Crimea. If NATO just acts like a scared pussy, that's the end of NATO. And with that, I'd expect more soured relationship between Europe and US, europeans sure are firmly together in this mostly, minus the pro-russian morons in certain nations. The world truly is pessimistic in these times.
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Thanks to western support and the valiant efforts of Ukranian fighters they've been defending their country for over two years pretty successfully.
In 2014 it took Russia around one month to annex the Crimean Peninsula, so I'd argue that western response and efforts by Ukrainians have dramatically improved since then.
Ukraine is not a NATO member though so I'm unsure why you think this has anything to do with NATO beyond Ukraine wanting to join.
The EU has regularly tabled ideas of European armed forces, response forces, and money for improving its military logistics. It's the US who's jumped in every single time and said 'we got it covered' and put more in. The US has immense interest in Europe depending on it for defence.
They do? Based on what?
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Genuinely unsure what you're talking about and if it's anecdotal then it's entirely irrelevant.The top five purchasers of U.S. goods exports in 2022 were: Canada ($356.5 billion), Mexico ($324.3 billion), China ($150.4 billion), Japan ($80.2 billion), and the United Kingdom ($76.2 billion). U.S. goods exports to the European Union 27 were $350.8 billion.
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The top five suppliers of U.S. goods imports in 2022 were: China ($536.3 billion), Mexico ($454.8 billion), Canada ($436.6 billion), Japan ($148.1 billion), and Germany ($146.6 billion). U.S. goods imports from the European Union 27 were $553.3 billion.
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The top five purchasers of U.S. services exports in 2022 were: Ireland ($83.1 billion), the United Kingdom ($80.9 billion), Canada ($69.5 billion), Switzerland ($52.4 billion), and China ($42.2 billion). U.S. services exports to the European Union 27 were $238.6 billion.
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The top five suppliers of U.S. services imports in 2022 were: the United Kingdom ($70.8 billion), Germany ($42.0 billion), Canada ($40.6 billion), Japan ($38.5 billion), and Mexico ($37.3 billion). U.S. services imports from the European Union 27 were $166.7 billion
Only a few Republican shills that either draw an income from Putin or don’t want to see the democrats getting good press and their handful of useful idiot followers. And that’s not even all of the republicans, mostly just the new maga-idiot branded ones.
Americans love American global hegemony. Especially seeing as who the current alternatives are… China or Russia.
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Words to live by.
You should probably stop pulling things from your ass. You're going to need to visit a doctor.
It's primarily the GOP that's against sending aid to Ukraine, and even then it's divided among them. Even Lindsey Graham is yelling at some of his GOP colleagues about it. For the record, the GOP does not even make up a plurality of Americans.
If you don't have any facts, just anecdotes based on your personal feelings then gtfo.
Aid Bill passed the Senate 79-18 so a lot of bipartisan support. Biden will now sign it and the weapons will start flowing again.
All the Russian sympathizers in Congress like MTG should be required to register as foreign agents of Russia.
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