"We've used 5% of our defense budget to arm Ukraine. And with it, they've destroyed 50% of Putin's army." - Ad targeted to Republicans to support Ukraine

https://lemmy.world/post/5671093

"We've used 5% of our defense budget to arm Ukraine. And with it, they've destroyed 50% of Putin's army." - Ad targeted to Republicans to support Ukraine - Lemmy.world

When it comes down to it, this is a hell of a deal for the US. We spend a tiny fraction of our military budget to de-fang Putin and don’t have to fire a single shot ourselves.
Not that im against defanging putin, but then the next one will come and the next one and the next one. Are there even russians that are not pro war?

Let’s see… From top of my head: Boris Nemtsov, Alexey Navalny, Ekaterina Shulman, more than half of alive Russian soldiers(counting dead soldiers more than 2/3).

“This is not war of Russia and Ukraine. I an against such definition. This is Putin’s war.”

- Boris Nemtsov, before he was shot on bridge near Kremlin wall

P.s. funny story about soldiers. Some idiots(thank you, idiots!) from Omsk decided to open voting station near front line for governor and regional parlament. Since soldiers officially don’t have internet, there was no Remote Electronic Voting(ДЭГ) and 100% voted with paper. And since paint protocols and stuff boxes is scary in front of armed men, it wasn’t done at usual scale. In result hard-core pro-war United Russia governor candidate got less than 50% and I think even lost on those stations.