Bread and CircusesWant to see a military-industrial capitalist smile? 🇺🇸 Show them this chart.
War is *extremely* profitable.
Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷@breadandcircuses Russia isn’t even in that list, and yet the world continues to allow it to devastate Ukraine. What is the point of huge military budgets if they don’t protect friends and allies?
Gabriel Pettier@KimSJ @breadandcircuses It is absolutely helping Ukraine survive that brutal agression, US has been the main support (in absolute terms, not relative to GDP), far in front on the UE, it’s still a relatively small expense compared the total US defense budget, a very "cheap" investment to wreak Russia’s military assets, without needing to send troops.
To do more, would require escalating by sending troops or heavier hardware, taking the risk of open war with Russia, which they are avoiding.
@tshirtman That’s the justification, but the reality is that America is delighted to fund a long war of attrition, which keeps Russia drained of resources and distracted from other ventures, at the cost of continuing Ukrainian lives.
@KimSJ The invasion is what costs ukrainian lives, occupation would also claim them, people would resist one way or another, and repression would be brutal. If they weren’t ready to fight for their freedom, sending hardware would just be gifts to russia’s inventory, which is not what’s happening.
Yes, it makes sense to support for more reason than one, what’s not to love about it?
The "to the last ukrainian" talking point is old russian propaganda, don’t fall for it.