From a Republican controlled committee? Of course it is. That’s what they do.

And where do you get your info from? Surely not Democrat led media?

From trustworthy sources with established records of objectivity.

Which excludes Fox News.

Any idiot who looked at where the advantages lay would have looked to close down the Ukrainian war as soon as possible.

That was on the table in March/April 22.

That was spurred out of...what I can only describe as delusional thinking. Anyway that will be so costly for us personally that in any situation where elites paid a consequence for poor performance the outcome would be quite dramatic.

As I've said many times on this forum. The disconnect between the ruling elites and the consequences for the ordinary masses below them are hardly any different to Russia....except that Putin actually cares about his country over some kind of unworkable champagne commie collective idea of the future that western elites currently labour under.

The fact being that bad decisions have no consequences. These people breeze out of the picture and fail upwards if anything.

Regardless, once sanctions didn't push Russia out of the war (and sanctions never work and hurt us just as much) there was no rationale for continuing this war (outside of those in Ukraine wanting to fight) other than social liberals and Russiaphobes being butt hurt.....but never actually willing to go to the trenches themselves.

Wars are so expensive that they should only be engaged in where your advantage is considerable and where the exit strategy is clear.

Our elites continually repeat the same mistakes....precisely because there is no consequence for them.

The war outcome?

Expensive energy permanently or until relations with Russia are repaired....which isn't likely.

Having to pay for the maintenance of Ukraine as a state.....and we aren't ever getting that money back. This will be multi billions of our budget every year when we don't have a pot to p1ss in.

A cold war with Russia that puts us right back into a highly dangerous situation where one mistake means everybody dies.

An economic war between the global north and global south where everybody is looking to leave the dollar.....which if trends continue as they are is very bad for all the west.

By hey, Putin bad...so everything was justified......We are ruled by morons.

Edited by Stirlingsays (17 Mar 2024 4.27pm)

Except the link posted was to their own website.