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[–] TheMage@lemmy.ml 20 points 10 months ago (42 children)

Now we’re up to $900 per US household for this Ukraine stuff. Let’s throw a few more bucks at it to buy flags. Great use of taxpayer dollars. Sure, Jan.

[–] PerCarita@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Most of which are armament that the US government already had in its arsenal. You've spent the money and now those missiles are actually in use instead of being hold in storage. I'm actually more interested in that 900 USD amount, where did you read or hear that exact number?

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 44 points 10 months ago (1 children)
  1. Missiles being used to kill people in an endless stalemate is actually worse than them sitting in a box
  2. The people sending those missiles to Ukraine are going to buy more to replace them
  3. They're also going to charge Ukraine for the missiles and insist the country sell off state assets for pennies on the dollar to make payments
[–] PerCarita@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it's high time to overhaul that thinking and stop having a ridiculous military budget.

[–] PosadistInevitablity@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Holy shit, it’s so high because it gets used constantly.

You’re literally here supporting the use of it

Liberal thinkers are epic

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