truth is that what putin or anyone does in europe is of no importance. saying we really spent < 2 bil in ukraine may be true but we should have spent 0$. that putin got obama to get biden to allow the strikes into russia is a bit of a reach. frankly prob BS. yes putin is a corrupt brutal dictator. who cares? are you trying to justify the corruption between US and ukraine by saying that it is not "that" expensive when that spending is desperately needed here? sounds like an apologia for obiden war mongering and deep state MIC corruption,whether or not we are sending them old gear thru europe and thus a cost savings?
your time line re the clinton machinations is exactly right,as far as i know. the clintons have both been russian assets since the 70s at least. should be common knowledge. it's not. you don't mention or ignore the risk of nuc war. anyone rational would be concerned A LOT!
seems to me there is a reason many here,myself included,mostly agree with sachs about america fucking around world wide where there was no justification for that since '45 anyway. that ukraine is a funnel for biden corruption and part of the whole woke playbook is reason enough to hope ukraine goes in the shitter soonest. the common people there are just screwed and have no chance to thrive. zelensky has bulit a corrupt,brutal dictatorship that loses nothing vis a vis russia's. yet another dictatorship we have created and support to our own harm. ie except the $ that flow into the neocon establishment and the MIC.
Who benefits from ATACMS strikes into Russia?
Not Biden, yet he authorized it. Lockheed-Martin and Northrop-Grumman are already back-ordered on every major weapon system to US DoD and FMS customers around the world without Ukraine.
Putin loses if Trump enacts his plan to shut down the war, and Trump is better gifted at negotiation than all US Presidents combined. Look at the Abraham Accords, where he brokered more Middle East Peace deals than all US Presidents since 1948.
The US has trickled weapons to Ukraine, not turned on any kind of huge FMS flow. There has been a lot of measured constraint from people in DoD and NATO who fear that giving everything they could might escalate the war. Remember that most of the defense officials are yellow-bellied appeasement moles, not war-fighters or well-assessed of Russia’s weaknesses. They believe all the CIA and NATO fake assessments presenting Russia as 10ft tall.
The person who doesn’t want to find out more than anyone if Russian nukes actually work is Putin, because you can never trust what anyone tells you from below in Russia. One of Putin’s first moves was to do an assessment of Russian nuclear forces. Whatever answers he got, he began a revitalization of them, with help from Obama and Clintons with Uranium One, hence the major donations to Clinton Global. That is probably the biggest scandal in US National security history.