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Baloney. How does that explain Putin's invasion of Chechnya? How about his invasion of Georgia? Thousands killed and tortured. 12 oligarchs have mysteriously committed suicide in the last year. People who disagree with the regime are jailed or worse.

As I said above, Ukraine isn't "sinking our economy". It has been widely reported that COVID entitlement fraud exceeded $46 billion. Think of all the other government handouts, medicaid payments for example. What do you think the aggregate annual amount of fraud is in our system here? Our problem isn't Ukraine, but our problems will grow if we don't keep Putin in his box.

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I negligently failed to add Putin's assassination of enemies in western countries with Novichok, among other methods.

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It's also cheaper to fight a contained proxy war than appease an expansionist and let things snowball.

The people bitching that the Ukraine war is too costly for the US are a classic example of pennywise/poundfoolish.

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Yup, and the case study for US approved UAV’s came included.

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True. As some commentators have said here, it's kind of a bargain as wars go.

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