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ProbablyTeasingYou t1_j9skqwp wrote

Reply to comment by EphraimJenkins in Biden official says there’s no evidence that Ukraine is misusing US assistance by fghfghhh

From what I've seen, Tuck is more about the "why should you be forced to pay for this?" bullshit. It's a good line to get the libertarian/tea party/magat morons all upset.

Russia is pushing this particular narrative. That is, Ukraine is being armed by the west to destroy Russia. China seems to be flirting with picking that up. I think that is what Biden is speaking to imho. It is currently being painted as western aggression.

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Thue t1_j9svjae wrote

It has always amazed me that the anti-tax Republicans are seemingly so happy to pay for the US's outsized military budget. The US could get away with spending much less tax and debt on its military.

That said, military aid to Ukraine is a much better use of tax money than many other parts of military expenditure. For example, the nationbuilding in Iraq and Afghanistan were colossal wastes of money for little benefit, often without even a coherent achievable end goal or plan, yet I don't remember Republicans being very vocal about them.

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BigHardThunderRock t1_j9tfub2 wrote

>It has always amazed me that the anti-tax Republicans are seemingly so happy to pay for the US's outsized military budget.

That's the thing though. Everything is already been paid for. It's just handing it out instead of leaving it in a warehouse. So the answer to "why should you be forced to pay for this?" is "Well, you already did!".

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nowander t1_j9u68uc wrote

It's honestly probably cheaper to ship most of the stuff to Ukraine than to decommission it properly.

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