Same thought about all of that PPP moneyI comfortably expect 60% to end up in the right hands and used for the right purpose.
I don't even want to know the misused/nonuse/graft rate for our foreign aid programs. It would be too depressing, sometimes ignorance is bliss.
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Then we have this argument as to what reality is:
Cawthorn’s tweet contains a link to an article called “World War Reddit'' with the caption “Propaganda is being used to entice America into another war. I do not want Americans dying because emotions pushed us into a conflict.” The linked article focused on multiple stories that have been written about the war that have turned out to be false after further examinationCawthorn calls Zelensky a ‘thug,’ Ukrainian government ‘evil’ in video
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “thug” and the Ukrainian government “evil” in a video obtained and published by North Carolina affiliate WRAL amid the…
That’s an odd way to think of it. If it was going to be wasted on baseball cards and sodas, I would rather it be wasted in the United States not halfway around the world.
Money doesn't win wars. We couldn't even control a bunch of Afghan goat farmers with a 800 billion dollar budget
No but it allows automation and remote effort. We lost 7k people in 20 years between iraq and afgan (at least per one of my links earlier).
Real wars where the general population has skin in the game are hugely affected by industrial production aka money. Distant entanglements, not so much.
You’re generous. I was thinking maybe 10% reaches its target considering how stubbornly corrupt Ukraine is.I comfortably expect 60% to end up in the right hands and used for the right purpose.
I don't even want to know the misused/nonuse/graft rate for our foreign aid programs. It would be too depressing, sometimes ignorance is bliss.
You could cut the US budget to 50 billion and we would still repel any invader from our soil. Can't think of many instances where invading someone's homeland worked out in the long run
No way in a protracted war against a modern large enemy would $50B be sufficient to actually win.
I would think getting your enemy out of your homeland is a win. What's the Taliban's defense budget? 50 billion was just a number I threw out. The point of my post was that is is very difficult to beat people who are fighting to preserve their homeland, it's an uncalculatable disadvantage.
maybe that's true but it comes with an incredible sacrifice. I'd rather over spend and not have anyone try, then crush anyone that does with technology.
That program was immediately followed by this:
Russian state television goes off message by broadcasting criticism of war
Russian state television has broadcast calls for Vladimir Putin, the country’s president, to stop his war in Ukraine during a programme in which pundits openly likened the invasion to "Afghanistan, but even worse".www.yahoo.com
I get your point and can't disagree if winning means a protracted devastating guerilla war for 20 years. But I would prefer to actually defeat the enemy at the war level, not the multiple-generations long insurrection phase.
