What can I say? Republicans love them some Russian roosters to suck down.

It's called "appeasement."
#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

Worse than that. It's Trump selling out our nation and its interests for personal gain. While the GOP cheers him on.

BuT VIetNaM wAs DiFFeRenT!
#9 | Posted by oneironaut

That's correct. Vietnam was different. Good of you to notice.

We are not risking American lives here. It's the Ukrainians who choose to do the heavy lifting. All they are asking for is the resources to defend themselves, and in the process take out our second biggest international threat.

Bolton loves war. He's going to be devastated when this ends
#18 | Posted by BellRinger

So you're a pacifist now? Peace no matter the cost?

Did you have these feelings before Trump took over your party and decided to give a democratic nation away to Russian fascists?

More of the same is clearly not working.
#23 | Posted by BellRinger

It's depleting Russian power and wrecking their economy. So they can't lend a hand when China tries something similar in five or ten years. And the stick you speak of is meaningless as the US turns it's back on its allies and it's previous promises.

Handing Russia trillions of dollars in Ukraine's mineral resources is only encouraging them to go for a repeat, no matter how much Trump/Vance try to make themselves look tough as they give Putin everything he wants and more.

Both Ukraine and Russia are corrupt AF [...]
#36 | Posted by Bluewaffles

Even assuming that they are equally corrupt, only one of them is trying to recreate the Soviet Union. The government that we spent over $1 trillion per year to keep in check.

Funding Ukraine's defense is pennies on the dollar to make sure Russia doesn't present that threat again during our lifetime.

Censored, I would argue he's trying to recreate the Russian Empire from a classical sense as opposed to the Soviet Union.
#48 | Posted by Bluewaffles

Either way, not in our interests to help him. Particularly when pretty much the entire Western World, and much of the non-Western World, is already unified against Russia. This isn't a light switch, where we can flip coalition defense on and off on demand.

But anyway, this is all moot. Trump was on Team Putin ten years ago and nothing has changed, other than the GOP's willingness to sell out NATO and our allies to help Trump get his payoff and make sure they aren't primaried. A shame there are very few principled conservatives left who will voice their opposition to Trump's surrender to our second biggest international threat.