...from the attached article...
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BERGEN: The Biden administration and Congress have already sent around $75 billion in aid to Ukraine. Why should Americans spend more on funding the Ukrainians?
PETRAEUS: Because it’s in our fundamental national security interest. It’s in the interest of our prosperity and the rules-based international order that we and our allies and partners in the wake of World War II established, which, for all of its imperfections, generally furthered our interests and those of our allies and partners.
Other countries – Russia and its various confederates around the world – are trying to make the world safe for autocracy, not safe for democracy, and our interests and those of our NATO allies and the free world are defended now at the Ukraine-Russia border.
Gen. David Petraeus
This is not charity. What we do around the world is not out of the goodness of our heart. It’s out of a cold calculation. It is in our national interest to do so, and that if we do not do so, conditions in the world will change in ways that will not be positive for either our national security or our national prosperity.
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Link: https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/23/opinions/general-david-petraeus-ukraine-war-second-anniversary-bergen/index.html
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This one is such a nobrainer that I think the Trumpies have lost their minds.
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By the way, I thought we should have given more faster.
The nervous “endless war”ninnies here and elsewhere would have had a cniption if we did though.
hamstrung from the start. Biden is in high panic now while he jacked his carrot at the start of the war. Biden foreign policy has always been wrong. That's the one thing you can count on with ole' puddin' head. You thought it should have been given faster eh? Good to know after 50,000 plus post your batting 1/50,000.
Your logic is because Biden was slow, let them lose this war, which they would easily survive with our aid. History will judge whether his actions were enough or not. Not the issue right now.
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And it really pains me to say that. Ronald Reagan is rolling in his grave as to what the GOP has become. Total disgrace.
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Kennedy has an interesting view on Ukraine.
In short, the U.S. is perpetuating the war. Tend to agree.
People are entering in droves.
Now an illegal kills a college nursing student
How much are we going to take from. Moron?
wrong about U.S. aid to Ukraine...besides...the combined GDP's of America and the EU dwarf Russia's...we can 'Walk and Chew Gum' at the same time. As the earlier assessment by Yale Univ. analysts shows...Putin has much stronger economic headwinds than we do.
Link: https://constitutingamerica.org/entry-into-wwii-and-the-america-first-debate-guest-essayist-james-legee/
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I’ve done quite a bit of outreach to the homeless here in San Diego, primarily homeless vets. I volunteer with a non-profit that provides housing, food, job training, and other necessary services to homeless vets. The facility is amazing, but they never achieve 100% occupancy. Why, you ask?…it’s because there is a good percentage of homeless vets that choose to be homeless. This carries over to the general homeless population are well.
My point is that homelessness will never be “solved” until the powers that be address mental health first.
Hey guys, China is coming, you need to get off the streets for 72 hours
is indeed a very difficult problem..........and btw, Kudos for all your work in San Diego.
Link: https://samliccardo.com/plan/
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Is that about 80% of the aid to Ukraine goes toward weapons and munitions produced by American companies. It’s not like we’re writing them a “blank check”. Of course, Cole and Eli fail to understand this simple fact.
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