Opposing this disastrous bill does not make one pro-Putin. As I noted on another thread, one can oppose the idea of the U.S. handing out tens of billions of American dollars that we don't even have to another country without said opposition equating to support for any of that country's enemies.
Principled Conservative arguments can be made, and are being made, that the U.S. simply can no longer afford to be so generous with its defense funds as it has in the past, nor should it be getting involved in any more foreign wars after the Iraq and Afghanistan debacles. I accept and respect that, if those arguments are made in good faith.
However, I do not agree that funding to support the Ukrainian military in fighting against the Russian invasion should be contingent upon funding for securing the U.S. southern border. They are two totally DIFFERENT issues and should NOT be conflated, and I believe that the U.S. can actually do both simultaneously if the Biden regime had the desire to do so. But it doesn't so here we are, playing chicken in Congress.
The way I see it, we are already in a third world war, against Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, all of which are attacking us and our allies on multiple fronts. It doesn't look like World War II or any of the subsequent wars we've seen through Operation Enduring Freedom. But make no mistake, we are all under attack economically, psychologically, technologically, and ideologically, while a friendly country whose security we assured in 1994 and assisted us during Operation Iraqi Freedom has been invaded and devastated by the Russians, a notoriously expansionist country which has a long history of attacking and annexing its neighbors. I'd much rather help Ukraine beat back those Russians NOW by supplying it with the weapons, ordnance, intelligence, and special operations assets it needs for the job, rather than sending my kids and grandkids to fight the Russians later in the Baltics or Poland and Germany once the Muscovites set their sights on those NATO countries in the future. People have forgotten their history, and what happened in the 1930s with the Axis powers. Isolationism and Appeasement do NOT work...they didn't work then and they don't work now. And our enemies DO have a say in whether we have a war on our hands or not.
What really galls me though are those people who are actively cheering on the Russians and wishing for them to defeat the U.S. and NATO, to the extent of even nuking American cities to teach us a lesson and supposedly rid ourselves of urban Democrats. I also think that it's repulsive to cheer the mass destruction and slaughter that are going on in Ukraine, out of some stupid sense of revenge for the sins of the Clintons and Bidens there in years past. All the while these pro-Kremlin posters gaslight us with the absurd claims that the Russians are "liberating" Ukraine and showing restraint in their attacks. I see this all the time on TOS, and find it disgusting.
I don't support Putin. I don't support more funding for Ukraine. Live with it.
Fair enough. It's still a free country to believe and express what you want or do not want...but barely.
