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It's our decision whether we give them billions of dollars of weapons.
Absolutely it is. We choose whether we live in a world where we defend freedom or where we appease bullies.
I guess for some people it's an easier choice than for others.
Is that why Ukraine is over $100 billion in debt to its Western "allies"?
Putting people into debt slavery is a weird way to defend freedom...
Debt is a normal part of war, and Ukraine's war debt is about a quarter of their peacetime GDP. Most of that has already been covered by the EU aid package last year.
Characterizing that as debt slavery is a pretty huge stretch.
At this scale those debts are a chain around their necks that can be used to control them.
As for the aid package, it merely covers half of the debt. On top of that? It's conditional! Ukraine has to meet certain requirements to receive that aid: energy, border management, agricultural demining, and the development of a list of "strategic and essential" raw materials. Aside from demining that doesn't sound like defending freedom, that sounds like they are trapping a client state into dependency so they can be exploited for primary production.
This has never been about freedom, I don't know how anyone could ever believe it was.
We don't give them shit, we sell it to them on loan with interest. It's all old hardware that we don't use anymore. It's a win win, our military budget goes down, they kill Russians. how do you not understand that 4 years into the war?
So, we're trapping them in debt slavery so that we can steal their natural resources. They die, we profit. Win/Win
Also, it's not like those profits go to us. They go to the manufacturers and their investors, with only some coming back in the form of wages. It's mostly a way to take public dollars and then hand it out to political donors. Win/Win/Win