How is that relevant to average Americans not wanting to waste anymore money on Ukraine?
"Waste." lol.
lmao.
HOKAY lemme break it down for ya fam. Whole US Gubbamint's been dealing with the following facts:
- We're gonna throw down with China sooner or later.
- Russia's gonna take their chance to have a go at the Baltics when they do.
- We don't have that sweet sweet Cold War money to fund a two-theater military anymore.
- omg wat do
It's bad enough that some analysts I deeply respect - i.e. of the "NUKE NORTH KOREA INDO-PACIFIC WAR NOW" variety - strongly believed that we should do
anything and everything to split Russia away from China, because it was the only possible way the US could fight China and win. Yes, even if we had to simp a bit and tolerate muhwarcriemz.
When this whole thing first kicked off, an awful lot of analysts just wept tears of blood as they said
there goes the indo-pacific pivot; convinced that this bruhaha would spoil a decades-long effort to make the Cold War dinosaurs who still control most of the American/NATO ~foreign policy establishment~ that Russia is a has-been second rate power and that China is the actual pacing threat that needs to be focused on, and that we'd return to paranoiac focus on Europe and neglect funding and capabilities for the Pacific to our great regret in 5-10 years time.
And then the Russians clownshoe'd and faceplanted and started losing their entire conventional warmaking capability at an insane rate.
The weapons we're pouring into Ukraine are
literally already paid for. A great many of them are the oldest production blocs in the inventory - from the Javelins we sent to the Brimstones the UK sent. This is all in the OSINT; people looked up the goddamn serial numbers. A lot of those weapons were
literally a few years away from their expiration date. And yet, instead of being ditched entirely, all that money wasted, they are now doing
exactly what they were designed and built to do - destroy Russian equipment. The Brimstone the UK just sent and has been seen in action already is a great example. It's about the size and weight of a Hellfire missile but it is oh so much more deadly. This fucking thing is capable of independent area search, target identification and engagement - and it even comes with a built-in algorithm to ensure that mass salvo launches stagger their attacks a bit to ensure multiple missiles don't go for the same tank. The weapon is the result of a late 1980s development project and is basically designed so that a Tornado screaming in on the deck can blast off a whole salvo of these things and they will zoom on in and delete a Russian battle tank column
on their own.
We have a massive arsenal of Cold War weaponry nearing its expiry date, that was designed to destroy the equipment Russia is currently cramming into Ukraine. And now, unexpectedly, incredibly, it is providing the return on investment we didn't think we'd get,
by completely eliminating the only flanking threat we have that could complicate our ability to resist the Red Dragon.
"Wasting money?" Concern troll somewhere else, bitch.
as well as the Russians blowing up incoming supplies in transit
Pics or it didn't happen lmao
www.cnn.com
thehill.com
www.foxnews.com
apnews.com
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