HEISENBERG@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoUkraine aid is dropped from government funding bill. That raises questions about future US supportapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up148arrow-down12
arrow-up146arrow-down1external-linkUkraine aid is dropped from government funding bill. That raises questions about future US supportapnews.comHEISENBERG@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square48fedilink
minus-squareSpzi@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoAnd it provides your weapons industry with real life data from a large-scale conflict with equipment from multiple origins. And it advertises a competitors products as inferior, and yours as superior. I despise all these things, but from a purely economic viewpoint, this is interesting for business.
minus-squareBNE@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agoMeanwhile, people die.
minus-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoYou can blame those deaths on Putin. Ukraine wouldn’t need those equipment if Putin didn’t invade a sovereign nation. He can literally decide tomorrow to pull back and no deaths would follow anymore.
And it provides your weapons industry with real life data from a large-scale conflict with equipment from multiple origins.
And it advertises a competitors products as inferior, and yours as superior.
I despise all these things, but from a purely economic viewpoint, this is interesting for business.
Meanwhile, people die.
You can blame those deaths on Putin.
Ukraine wouldn’t need those equipment if Putin didn’t invade a sovereign nation.
He can literally decide tomorrow to pull back and no deaths would follow anymore.