Helping Ukraine is “a relatively modest investment with significant geopolitical returns,” the CIA director wrote.
Western allies must continue providing assistance to Ukraine in its war with Russia this year, or risk a mistake “of historic proportions,” CIA Director William Burns wrote in a column published Tuesday.
Burns laid out his case in a Foreign Affairs column, noting that less than 5 percent of the U.S. defense budget — “a relatively modest investment with significant geopolitical returns” — is all that Washington sends to Kyiv.
If an opportunity for serious negotiations to end the war emerges, he wrote, providing arms to Ukraine will put it in a stronger bargaining position. Ukraine’s military would also be able to continue fending off Russian troops while rebuilding its infrastructure, while Moscow spends massive amounts of money to keep the war going, Burns added.
“For the United States to walk away from the conflict at this crucial moment and cut off support to Ukraine would be an own goal of historic proportions,” Burns wrote, referencing a soccer term for scoring a goal for the rival team by putting the ball into a player’s own net.
Solid points all around but I’d also like to add “it’s also the right thing to do”
Anyone with an ounce of common sense: Ya don’t say
Right-wing useful idots on social media: [Continue to echo Russian propaganda they’ve been saturated with]
Have you been around lemmy even? It’s hardly just right wingers pushing Kremlin propaganda! I mean hexbear, lemmygrad ffs, they shill that shit wholesale like it’s their bread and butter.
I was using jeroba unlogged in for several months, which defaults to lemmy ml. I logged in a couple of weeks ago which defaults to lemmy world which I’m guessing defederated those two so I haven’t had my bid pressure go up from seeing all the hypocrisy. I know it may give me a view from a walled garden, but technically every lemmy instance is more or less a walled garden. If I understand it right even an instance that tries to federated everything will be one, albeit one that expands their walls to the edge whenever possible.
I will say it is crazy how fast the parties have rotated policies
My dad used to listen to rush Limbaugh when I was a kid because for some reason he liked hating it so much. When Obama was president, the narrative was always anti Russia, pro defense like feds/CIA (“hard on crime”)
Then trump becomes president, and the party slowly shifts to pro Russian, and the liberal lefts that used to hate the feds/CIA are now more on the same page with those agencies
Right-wing useful idots on social media: [Continue to echo Russian propaganda they’ve been
saturated withpaid for]
As in, failing to do so will alter the global course of history? Obviously.
Why are some of our leaders in a race to establish Russia as the single world superpower?
Why are some of our leaders in a race to establish Russia as the single world superpower?
They see it as a short term way to get into power, and a long term way to establish authoritarianism.
They get media support in the form of social media propaganda which can get them into office now.
Long term, they schill for Russia and enact authoritarianism wherever they are.
If successful, both are successful long term, but its an all or nothing play. If they fail, or Russia fails (Putin will die some time), they uh… go to jail.
They’re being paid to do so. Indirectly, of course, but I’d bet my aggregate lifetime income that some solid forensic accounting of campaign contributions to these assholes - not to mention a LOT of the PACs affiliated with them - ultimately lead to addresses in Moscow.
It seems like I’ve heard of the strategy of “appeasement” having been attempted before - how did that work out for them again?
Last I heard they were doing pretty well, I think the government is supposed to be in power for around 1,000 years.
And that’s why the Russian-compromised Republican leadership party is ardently against it
