As Trump continues to defend his Putin bromance, Mattis just signaled the US will continue arming on

[TomSea]

As Trump continues to defend his Putin bromance, Mattis just signaled the US will continue arming one of Moscow’s biggest foes
John Haltiwanger


    The Pentagon on Friday announced it's giving $200 million to Ukraine to bolster its defenses as its conflict with pro-Russian separatists rages on.
    This move comes as President Donald Trump continues to face backlash over a recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
    The conflict in Ukraine has resulted in the deaths of roughly 10,000 people, including 3,000 civilians, and displaced roughly 1.7 million.

The Pentagon on Friday announced it's giving $200 million to Ukraine to bolster its defenses as its conflict with pro-Russian separatists rages on.

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Forget who is right or wrong, a lot of people don't care for us just to dole out $200 million,  no strings attached? No pay back?  I'm for the Ukraine side but that seems generous.

[edpc]

$200M is not that much, compared to what we give Israel.

[GtHawk]

$200M is not that much, compared to what we give Israel.

Whatever we give to Israel is a drop in the bucket compared to the billions we give to the UN each year, at least we get support from Israel.

[Suppressed]

Whatever we give to Israel is a drop in the bucket compared to the billions we give to the UN each year, at least we get support from Israel.

We give $40 billion to Israel, and $8 billion to the UN.

[TomSea]

JFK had his bay of pigs, one can name faults for virtually all presidents. I think positives will come out of this whole thing. Sure, you can't learn on the job but the Cuban missile crisis is hardly something you can be prepared for.

JFK, did poorly on the "Bay of Pigs", and is generally seen as having done well on the Cuban missile crisis, it's of course, debated.

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Some time ago, I read a slew of archives from Georgetown online about past political happenings, pretty enlightening. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu  all kinds of things, especially since many documents have been released since their original occurrence when some of them may have been classified top secret.

[GtHawk]

We give $40 billion to Israel, and $8 billion to the UN.

That's a bit disingenuous, the aid to Israel is 3.8 billion a year and there are other programs under the UN umbrella that the US pays additional funds.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

We give $40 billion to Israel, and $8 billion to the UN.

No, we don't.

While we do give the U.N. approximately $8B/year, we give Israel less than half that.  So, the Israel figure would be correct only if you were talking about over a ten year period, in which case the U.N. figure should be $80B, not $8B.

[Suppressed]

No, we don't.

While we do give the U.N. approximately $8B/year, we give Israel less than half that.  So, the Israel figure would be correct only if you were talking about over a ten year period, in which case the U.N. figure should be $80B, not $8B.

You're correct.  Apologies for my goof.

[truth_seeker]

JFK had his bay of pigs, one can name faults for virtually all presidents. I think positives will come out of this whole thing. Sure, you can't learn on the job but the Cuban missile crisis is hardly something you can be prepared for.

JFK, did poorly on the "Bay of Pigs", and is generally seen as having done well on the Cuban missile crisis, it's of course, debated.

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Some time ago, I read a slew of archives from Georgetown online about past political happenings, pretty enlightening. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu  all kinds of things, especially since many documents have been released since their original occurrence when some of them may have been classified top secret.

There is not much in secret, that the US supported political forces, that would oppose USSR backed regimes.

Central America, Vietnam and Iran come readily to mind.

[mountaineer]

the US will continue arming one of Moscow’s biggest foes

How does that not contradict the "bromance" narrative?