President Joe Biden warned Republicans on Tuesday that they would give Russia a "Christmas gift" if they failed to provide additional military aid to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, whose meeting with a top U.S. lawmaker concluded without a commitment for more support.
The thing is, the US is just so fucking big and it also has the biggest military industrial complex by far, so who else should do it? Proportional to GDP, it’s not that much.
Also, in the past, other nations have contributed to America’s wars. Japan paid something like 10 billion USD to the US for the Gulf War in 1991, which I think was around 20% of the total cost.
I didn’t say we are the only ones, i said we are alwsys expected to throw money and equipment at any of the EU’s little scares, while being shit on the rest of the time.
But it isn’t? Many countries are supporting Ukraine, and there are more ways than shipping weapons there to do it.
Check out https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/
The thing is, the US is just so fucking big and it also has the biggest military industrial complex by far, so who else should do it? Proportional to GDP, it’s not that much.
Also, in the past, other nations have contributed to America’s wars. Japan paid something like 10 billion USD to the US for the Gulf War in 1991, which I think was around 20% of the total cost.
I didn’t say we are the only ones, i said we are alwsys expected to throw money and equipment at any of the EU’s little scares, while being shit on the rest of the time.