he was a journalist doing a big scoop. yes,likely a big ratings boost attempt. bringing up the holodor would be like grilling Trump about Stormy Daniels or Obama about Larry Sinclair during an interview. not likely productive. if he is ignorant,as you say,guess he has no access to people who are informed. but,it is good to have someone on here who is knowledgeable about and has access to all the deepest information extant. still haven't said why you think we should be doing what we are doing in Ukraine. and,how spending ?? billions doing whatever it is is a good investment in America's present and future interest and security. my bet is you are unable to cobble together any justification beyond what the Lindsey Graham types spew. you have never said why you think spending 60+ billion on Ukraine is better than spending it here to fix some of the broken stuff we have. in my ignorant view,all that has done is help secure Black Rock's investment there,arm the cartels and hamas,profit our MIC and let Z and his wife and buds buy a lot of expensive toys and homes. hasn't done much for the Ukrainian people who are victims no matter who gets the blame for this mess.
You have gone the binary route, once again. You assume I’m in-favor of how things have been done. This is a continual gross error, so maybe I’m not being clear enough or you’re overlooking/not reading exactly what I’ve said.
I’m firmly with Trump on deterrence or ending it quickly. He kept Putin deterred by showing strength like no other US President has ever shown Russia. Reagan was the closest distant 2nd place, but Russia was falling apart internally way before Reagan even ran in ’76.
Tucker has openly stated his ignorance very recently, where he genuinely thought the people surrounding him were basically good, decent people that might have different views. He has been, or at least claims to have been way behind the power curve on understanding the workings of American govt. He still does not have a good grasp on that, but has made a lot of progress.
If you are still in the place of thinking I’m in the same camp with Lindsay Graham, you really don’t understand me well at all and are reverting back to that either/or mentality. I’m not sure you’ve ever seen as big of a critic of RINOs as me. It’s one of the reasons I’ve been a State and County delegate actually trying to get rid of as many of them as possible over the last 15 years in my State.
Once again, the US MIC does not need the small-time weapons sent to Ukraine to profit. The existing backlog of FMS to other countries already has manufacturing capacity strained, because Europe has dropped the ball for the past 30-40 years + in that sector. We’ve been sending munitions that were scheduled for destruction/de-miling, that were obsolete by US military standards.
Exceptions to that are the Javelins Trump sent, and some other missiles, but most of the post-2022 missiles were old FMS to NATO countries in Europe who sent their old stock, with new stock already negotiated via FMS to fill their place for the NATO customers.
Most of what we have sent was already paid for 20-30 years ago, so we have only assigned value to those materials. I thought we covered this already?
