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"Are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they gonna continue? Yes," Biden told reporters aboard Air Force One. 🤡 (www.reuters.com)

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[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Waving my cowboy hat, clutching a bomb between my thighs, and screaming "You're all about to find out why we can't afford health care!" as I plummet towards the earth.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 16 points 8 months ago

🤣

[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I probably don’t know as much, but to me it seems that even with all that funding they’re not doing as much as you’d think. But maybe that’s because they’re not sending their own soldiers, then again they couldn’t even succeed in Afghanistan…

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

They're definitely sending special forces and they're very likely using some amount of "military advisors" to train and arm the Ukrainian rank and file.

A big chunk of the money is getting pissed away on mercenaries and other military contractors, certainly. This is still, at its heart, a jobs program for Nicolas Cage's character from Lord of War.