• Whirlybird@aussie.zoneBanned
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    2 years ago

    A 10% increase on the biggest part of your budget by far is a ridiculous increase.

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      2 years ago

      Giving a trillion dollars to businesses with no oversight is also a ridiculous expendititure, but also 10 times more than this and happily supported by the Republicans. Or the tens of trillions spent in the Middle East over the last couple decades. This relatively minor expense is cheap political good will with a massive ROI.

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        2 years ago

        Giving a trillion dollars to businesses with no oversight is also a ridiculous expendititure, but also 10 times more than this and happily supported by the Republicans.

        That’s not funding a proxy war though. Kinda different.

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          2 years ago

          Sometimes the only options are war or capitulation. I guess if Ukraine had just stopped…existing…next to Russia this could have all been avoided. How foolish of them.

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            2 years ago

            Those aren’t the options available to America though. America wouldn’t be “capitulating” by not sending $100bil along with weapons and military vehicles to ukraine.