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Lend-Lease basically guarantees Ukraine continues to get US support under Biden. Russia's spend on the GOP is a weak play with very little guaranteed benefits e

Lend-Lease basically guarantees Ukraine continues to get US support under Biden. Russia's spend on the GOP is a weak play with very little guaranteed benefits even if the GOP wins by a landslide.

mrguyorama 4y ago
It should be pretty clear by now that some members of the GOP are willingly doing things for Russia, whether by order or pure stupidity.
- int_19h 4y ago
  Some circles on the American right see Russia as some kind of "the last bastion of traditional white European Christianity and family values".
  - mrguyorama 4y ago
    It's also possible that they just like Putin on a personal level because he gets what he wants, doesn't afraid of anything, and nobody can tell him no, and they want that for themselves. If you look into Trump's cabinet, you find many people whose open goals and political ideology states that the president should be a top dog figure who doesn't have to answer to anyone and has supreme power. They are people who lived through the Nixon stupidity and decided "No, he should definitely be able to murder people and get away with it if he wants"
    - ed_balls 4y ago
      > because he gets what he wants no politician gets what she/he wants. They can only go upwind. The structural forces - like strategic interests - are forcing the decisions on them. They can move one inch left or right, but that's about it. It doesn't matter if this is a democracy or regime. You can observe it now, when Biden is continuing Trump's policies like trade tariffs on China. No one wants a war, but if the stability of the system depends on it you are forced to act. I think this war is similar to Opium Wars. Without the trade British Empire would have serious problems. The world is decarbonising and more than half of RF income comes from natural resources. Putin needed a better position to secure the future of Russian Federation. He tried to use the argument of force in a 3 day war, but the gamble didn't work.

Lend-Lease basically guarantees Ukraine continues to get US support under Biden. Russia's spend on the GOP is a weak play with very little guaranteed benefits even if the GOP wins by a landslide.

mrguyorama 4y ago

It should be pretty clear by now that some members of the GOP are willingly doing things for Russia, whether by order or pure stupidity.

int_19h 4y ago
Some circles on the American right see Russia as some kind of "the last bastion of traditional white European Christianity and family values".
- mrguyorama 4y ago
  It's also possible that they just like Putin on a personal level because he gets what he wants, doesn't afraid of anything, and nobody can tell him no, and they want that for themselves. If you look into Trump's cabinet, you find many people whose open goals and political ideology states that the president should be a top dog figure who doesn't have to answer to anyone and has supreme power. They are people who lived through the Nixon stupidity and decided "No, he should definitely be able to murder people and get away with it if he wants"
  - ed_balls 4y ago
    > because he gets what he wants no politician gets what she/he wants. They can only go upwind. The structural forces - like strategic interests - are forcing the decisions on them. They can move one inch left or right, but that's about it. It doesn't matter if this is a democracy or regime. You can observe it now, when Biden is continuing Trump's policies like trade tariffs on China. No one wants a war, but if the stability of the system depends on it you are forced to act. I think this war is similar to Opium Wars. Without the trade British Empire would have serious problems. The world is decarbonising and more than half of RF income comes from natural resources. Putin needed a better position to secure the future of Russian Federation. He tried to use the argument of force in a 3 day war, but the gamble didn't work.