Putin is going to give all of his U.S. congressional pawns a big bonus this week.
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MTG and Boebert will be dining out at the finest roadside BBQ restaurant in their districts tonight
maybe even see a movie, exchange dick pics..
a nice handjob between courses
That does sound nice.
It's sad to watch these world leaders who understand long strategy use the short American attention span to twist global politics to their own ends.
Ruble isn't doing great tho 🤣
That's fine, he'll just take the money out of one of his Swiss bank accounts.
I could have sworn that The Swiss froze all Russian accounts. Like I vaguely remember a major headline that The Swiss had broken a several hundred year "neutrality" streak.
I think it's OK to put the blame where appropriate here. "U.S. Republican Congressional pawns."
It's clear that Ukraine is of "National Security Interests". So I vote we just take a lil bit of the budget allocated for military spending and use it where it would be best served.
it's mostly a gear refresh for our military anyway. we send them stuff we have stockpiled, then we spend the allocated money on new shit for us.
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Funny how are government starts fucking up the war most Americans support AND fucking up the other one that most Americans don't support.
One of those effects the transfer of capital far more than the other. The whole reason we have a navy is to police international waters for commerce.
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Just so we're paying attention to our news sources,
i can post peoples world as a counter source
Take the Israel weapon donations, ship them through a sketchy ukranian subcontractor in Ukraine, "lose them" in such a way the ukraine government "aquires" them. Two problems solved.
There isn't any funding for Israel either. The bill they're working on now has Israel, Ukraine, and additional US border security dollars in there.
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We could send all of the people fighting the war on drugs, they're used to achieving nothing.
Most cops would never make it through that much required training, tbh.
Still, more training than the Russians are given, and no one wants the boys in blue back, so: win/win.
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They're only achieving nothing when you take the "war on drugs" at face value.
The USA has for-profit prisons, inmates that are functionally slave labor and an incarceration rate well beyond that of comparable countries.
Psychopathic neoliberals profit from the "war on drugs". It's not a byproduct of the war on drugs, it's one of the goals.
You don't have to politely accept it when they claim "it's not about that". Make them prove it by putting an end to the exploitation of prisoners and their families and investing in harm minimization strategies that actually work.
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