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@John Hjorth Wonderful to see John. @Xerxes Mentioned the gut check citizens & countries will have to make in committing their sons to the conflict. Looking ahead, I think Ukraine really needs to think through the possibility that they could lose a million or so of their sons to this conflict - and whether, as a nation, they can recover from that. That is - if it means ejecting the Russians for good. Xerxes would know, as I believe the Iran/Iraq stalemate, cost Iraq 1M young men from Saddam's ill-fated miscalculation.

Isn't it the truth!!

Damn - that sounds bad. I didn't realize it was that dangerous.

Oh my gosh. I had no idea. God bless you and your family!

That's a good video. He lays out the arms needs nicely and the desperation for help. He does however, completely avoid the topic of the manpower catastrophe that Ukraine faces. I believe you can assume the population of Ukraine is down to 25-30 million and the fighting age population significantly less. Your opponent has 144M and is dug in. You're not going to reclaim those lost territories - and you're fortunate to stop any advance. You listen to the sophisticated weapons that are promised or needed - and you see the second problem - difficult & time-consuming training. In order to advance, are you going to involve Europeans?? The Russians can crank out munitions all day long, and one leader has a mountain of men to throw at the offensive or stalemate.

This is the typical Marxist response. Everything is the framed in the lens of "oppressor vs oppressed". Every social problem in the world is viewed as a problem with "oppressive US Capitalism". The powerful US, with its capitalist system is corrupt and US business is nothing but oppression. Once you buy that nonsense, then it easy to paint the picture of how the "plan" of the West is to keep the whole world down. Utter nonsense. You should be more careful with your sources.

@Luca Stop insulting our intelligence. Your very long post from the Economist Professor Michael Hanson, who is an avowed Marxist is replete with ridiculous buzzwords (which should annoy you). I commented only after I read your passage from Professor Hanson completely. His whole thesis is how the USA, since WWII, has had the goal of siphoning off all the world's income wealth for themselves. How utterly ridiculous. No mention of the dramatic rise in living standards for those under the influence of the West. Most of us understand that socialism/communism is antithetical to capitalism. Does capitalism need to be regulated? Of course Does capitalism need to be destroyed? Clearly not The crux of his argument is how oppressive capitalism is to those that follow the US lead. So much for avoiding the Neoliberal American disease - his words not mine.

^^^ Well, that is just your opinion of course. Your's is an equally naive view of history. You decapitate the leadership and attempt to win the hearts and minds of the fools that put them in power. Unfortunately, you must obliterate the leaders, and humiliate the populace - so they have little choice. Witness NAZI Germany, Fascist Italy, and the militaristic Imperial Empire of Japan. All leadership was decapitated. The population was humiliated. Then they realized the enormous mistake they had made with these leaders. Only then could those countries be remade into neighbors that others could live with. This victory requires unconditional surrender. IF Hamas is not obliterated - then this war will go on forever. Israel is not going to let that happen this time around.

I'm familiar with Prof. Michael Hudson - he's a declared Marxist. That's all I need to know. You can keep your socialism, it's wrecking Europe, and it's on it's way here.

Damn Luca - you just love socialism don't you? Like Lenin said "The goal of socialism is communism"

No problem. My point is deeper than that. This administration has destroyed the peace in the Middle East. Jake Sullivan , Biden's key national security advisor, said last summer, this period of the Middle East has been the "most peaceful in 2 decades". So of course, administration policy reinstated funding for Iran and Gaza, in addition to removing Houthis off the designated terrorist list. And who are the 3 groups attacking Israel full throttle? Every key decision has been a disaster. Quite frankly, I'm surprised this administration has not cancelled the Abraham Accords.

yeah, that seems right. Every Middle East decision this administration has made has been disastrous, so they’ve no idea how to handle it.

There ya' go! https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-95-billion-spending-package-for-ukraine-israel-and-taiwan

The US & Europe have almost the same interests and have since the end of WWII. That's why they are great allies. That's why the West has thrived. - peaceful relations - economic prosperity. - free trade Why in the world would the US execute on the Marshall Plan if that was not the case? I mean - rebuild your enemies Germany & Japan??? The result was almost 70 years of peace in Europe. Meanwhile, the Soviet economic plan was a disaster for their subjects, and Mao had to kill 60 million for China to figure out their economic plan wouldn't work. Thank goodness Taiwan & Hong Kong weren't part of the plan.

The West has sent $600M per year to Gaza for years now. That's an awful lot of money. Gaza has had tremendous financial aid. Those funds, then are diverted to support a terrorist infrastructure instead of a rebuilt Gaza. So you want to blame that one on the West? You call it "bias", actually it's "failure".