• Billiam@lemmy.world
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    The Kremlin warned that American support for Ukraine could turn into a decade-long folly, urging the U.S. to not oppose its invasion of the country as Congress appears set to pass a $60 billion aid package.

    Buried lede: Russia thinks its “three-day special military operation to de-nazify remove US biolabs de-NATO Ukraine resurrect the Soviet Union” could take a decade. 😂

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      Also, they think they might need a decade to defeat a power that has a fifth of its military size, and which has, so far, roundly managed to make a laughingstock out of much of the Russian military.

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        Let’s assume Ukraine and all the funding it receives does delay it a decade and Russia eventually wins.

        Isn’t that still a resounding success delaying Russia by 10 years and crippling them from the extended war?

        It might suck for Ukraine, but from a foreign policy perspective that’s a success

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          Uhh no it isn’t? What the fuck? The very fact of a war is a foreign policy disaster if you care about the well being of Europe at all. God I hate America sometimes

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            The war is inevitable. America doesn’t decide if Russia invades Ukraine or not. It can only decide if it will help Ukraine or not.

            If america helps Ukraine, they will severely cripple Russia, thus making later invasions unlikely.

            I america doesn’t help Ukraine, Russia will just get what they want and move on to invade more countries, leading to more wars.

            You can’t just give a flower to the invader, say “peace” and suddenly there are no more wars.