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Yeah, that's what I meant. Invest as in investing in Ukraine's ability to defend itself so that we don't need to invest as much on our own defence. Investing i
by worldsayshi 2y ago
Yeah, that's what I meant. Invest as in investing in Ukraine's ability to defend itself so that we don't need to invest as much on our own defence.
Investing in Ukraine's ability to deal with Russia is clearly the most economical way to deal with Russia for everyone else. Hence they want to distract us from that.
- ASalazarMX 2y agoThe right word is spend. Military spending is not an inversion, because the profits rarely go to the government, but to the private sector.
- worldsayshi 2y agoInvest - to put money, effort, time, etc. into something in order to improve it or get an advantage. Spend - to give money as a payment for something. Invest still sounds to me like the word I'm looking for.
- ASalazarMX 2y agoYeah, in the way I can invest in a new GPU for my gaming computer. Paying military subcontractors is not putting resources into improving the military, it's spending. Be it bombing a country for no profit (like Afghanistan), for resources (like Irak), or geopolitics gain (like Syria/Ukraine), it's an expense, not an inversion. The military will not get ROI from oil or geopolitics.
- Arnt 2y agoThose subcontractors build factories, which is investment. https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/four-rheinmetall-plants-set-to-launch-in-1729944205.html https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/four-rheinmetall-plants-set-... for example.