In the salt mines of Ukraine

I would not give a dime of US citizen's taxed payer dollars to ANY foreign country. Very simple patriotic reason why... American citizens come first and foremost. We have so many overbearing problems right here right now with our fellow Americans suffering (crime, homelessness, drug addiction, suicide, mental illness, etc.). Meanwhile our political leaders are pouring billions of dollars into the coffers of foreign countries that if the tables were turned would not lift a finger to help America out. Our so called allies are only on our side as long as the foreign aid money keeps flowing to them but the minute it stops they do not seem to want to give America the time of day. What we are being spoonfeed on major US TV network's news broadcasts is blatant disinformation, some may call it propaganda, on the various talking points they are actively attempting to condition all of us to regurgitate verbatim the narrative being promoted (think a "verbal virus" spreading). Mark Twain's famous quote: "If you dont read the newspaper you're uninformed and if you read the newspaper you're misinformed."

PAD said:

Sledge you nailed it. Jeep fan they are not waring Factions. They are two separate counties divided by a Peace Agreement whereby for peace Ukraine gave up its nuclear capabilities for peace. Once Putin saw the opportunity he invaded Ukraine. There is no factional division here. As always in the face of freedom we don’t start wars we finish them. That’s called Democracy. Want to piss off a Democratic Nation? Go rape and kill their women, children, shoot older citizens riding their bikes, and make sure you kill their pet dogs sitting by the bodies of their dead owners.

This is the largest country in Europe now being invaded by Russia. Now just put your feet in their shoes for one moment.

Just stop watching the propaganda news here and on your phone and TV. You haven’t seen what’s called the best for last yet.

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I do care for the innocents caught up in any war. One would be inhuman to not to.

We are not the worlds peacekeepers or police. We need to be more isolationist and less involved with for profit politics meddling abroad.

No American citizen's tax dollar is justified being spent on other countries when we have homeless and disabled vets in need of care, our border crisis, budget overspending, our own corrupt politicians along with a host of other monetary and social issues here at home which are too many to name.

It is hypocritical of us to try to fix broken nations with our ever growing faults.

To once again waste our treasure and the blood of our nation's finest in another country is beyond insane.

Our position should be of basic support to likeminded, supportive and self-contributing nations, along with a clear message if you want to attack us in any way, we will stomp you with an overmatching military might.

Sorry other nations, work out your own problems.

JeepFan said:

We are not the worlds peacekeepers or police.

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We have been historically accused of interfering with the rest of the world for our advantage. The truth is it is not to "our" (the American people's) advantage, but to the swamp's advantage.
Meanwhile, our government has made sure that everything is done to "our" disadvantage.

nato, the un, and any nation that wants to, have consistently bent us over backwards and used us as their thugs.

When asked to solve someone else's problems for them, those solutions should advantage "us", the people of America, not the swamp. The rest of the world should have some reluctance to asking us to solve their problems for them, and a motivation to fix their problems themselves. They should know that "If they don't like our solution to their problem, then they should not ask us to solve their problem for them."
This extends to everyone fleeing their nation and coming here, instead of fixing the problems they are fleeing from.

Most importantly, our government is a criminal organization. Did I mention the swamp? Criminals should not be allowed to operate as peacekeepers or police. Because the outcome is always criminal.

Our government can not be trusted to do the right thing for us or for anyone else.