Thank you for the brilliant platitudes, ILikeBoobies.

It’s ironic, yes, but not unexpected.

For the 99% that always vote party over country, any opinion they hold is subject to political convenience. It really is a shame though that no one seems to have learned from the wars of the past 40 years. Every single time we’re able to look back on them and see very clearly that we were lied to and the war industry and politicians benefited handsomely.

People keep making that argument, that it’s only older military ordnance being sent to these countries.

I think that’s going to age about as well as the stories about Saddam having nukes, which everyone else claimed authoritatively at one point, using their preferred billionaire-owned news media source as gospel.

BUT, I appreciate that you’re willing to have a discussion in good faith, unlike most on this thread. Thank you.

No, friend.

The government should be giving everyone health care.

Look at Canada and Mexico. Combined they spends a little over $30 billion a year on their military. Both have universal health care. Here in the US we spend well over two trillion a year on war, and if you have an injury or illness, you will go bankrupt.

Doesn’t matter what China does if you’re out on the street, because SCOTUS just paved the way for homelessness to be criminalized.

Military aid isn’t just sending money. It can include weapons, equipment, training, or other support to help a country defend itself

Not unlike how corporate donors buy thousands of Trump’s books, or stays at his hotels, or whatever other bribe they render to get him to take their phone calls. In short, legalized bribery.

Works the same way with war profiteers. All those bombs aren’t free, and they are 100% marked up.

My entire life I’ve watched the US spend like drunken sailors to wage war around the world. I’m going to remind the chickenhawks that our people are dying while these boondoggles take place, because apparently your preferred news program, the one trying to manufacture your consent, certainly won’t.

It’s so weird.

Trump is only slightly less pro-war than Bush/Obama/Biden, but the thing is, when he pulls the military from a war he almost certainly does it for the wrong reasons.

I’m anti-war myself, so for me, it’s a win. Obama had us at war in seven countries (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, and Libya) and the US military is still active in most of them. Personally, I think it’s more of a business move than a political one. Lots of war profiteers spent a lot of money on Biden and Harris’ campaigns, and they expect a return on that investment while he still has the power to give it.

I would have agreed with you with every conflict the US has been involved in in the last 50 years

My entire life I’ve heard facsimiles of the arguments you’re making.

I never hear them in favor of helping people dying in ER waiting rooms here until an Italian goes off and kills a CEO.

I would much rather this money come out of the US military’s ridiculous 900 billion budget.

Agreed. I’m guessing the war profiteers who keep Biden’s phone busy are doing the best they can to milk him before Trump takes office.

Likely.

Still needs to be said every time our money is spent on military boondoggles and not our own needs.

Well, that’s good news.

Definitely didn’t need that 571 million here in the US for anything.

My city was one of the few that put a killer cop behind bars, but our outgoing governor changed all that today, sadly. It’s a massively unpopular move here, but we’re effectively powerless to change it as the incoming governor is a Republican and our state is gerrymandered red.

Further, we Kansas Citians do not have local control over KCPD. Our police are state-controlled, which is you can imagine, the Republicans in Jefferson City like very much.

we didn’t invade the country

Not yet. I’m hoping Trump will prevent that step in the process.

B–b–b–bingo!

Yes, they did.

Their preferred news networks assured them of that, just like they assure us that we’re helping Ukraine.

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I suppose they all just slept through Iraq and Afghanistan, but it’s common historical practice for the US to install puppets and meddle in the destinies of countries we’re supposedly helping.

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It’s terribly ironic to watch people who support US interventionism pretend that Ukraine gets to have any real say in their own destiny at this point. Hundreds of billions of US taxpayer dollars do not go into your coffers without strings.

Dunno, just make sure your stop-loss orders are set so you don’t get burned when the dip comes.

My favorite thing about social media is people who argue for no good reason other than to entertain themselves.