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@dirtydeeds100 @chris_komatsu He is telling you that times have changed. He is also highlighting that the USSR included Ukraine, a now separate state whose military expenditures are calculated separately from those of Russia. A more appropriate comparison would be RSFSR vs. RF.

@chris_komatsu @re2max That changes nothing of what I said?

Literally the one European country that answered the admin's call to send their own military personnel to the Middle East to help us, and this is how they are treated? Note that when you beg all of Europe to send help while also trashing them, they'll see this and realize there's no reason to help us. We've demontrated this will not change regardless of their actions.

@dirtydeeds100 @chris_komatsu True, but then why are we even having this conversation...

@re2max @chris_komatsu I mean obviously, anything can happen?

@dirtydeeds100 @chris_komatsu A veto is part of it, but American officers still have to sign off on orders, thus explicitly allowing to strike and kill Russian targets.

@re2max @chris_komatsu No, its ukraines call where we have veto power, where we only assist them with the intelligence and training to better perform that job.

@dirtydeeds100 @chris_komatsu As I said, the US is only investing here because Ukraine will not be able to pay back at all otherwise. It is ultimately a mechanism for returning a loan. Politically, at that point Ukraine did not have a choice to say no.

@re2max @chris_komatsu Thats what an investment is? You expect a return on profit? Ukraine would never agree to this if the US wasn't providing additional capital irregardless of the military aid already provided to them.

@dirtydeeds100 @chris_komatsu It is, though.

@re2max @chris_komatsu No, it really isn't, its again in effect like any other investment deal.

@dirtydeeds100 @chris_komatsu The buildup will be noticeable, true, but that does not mean it will be thwarted or that an invasion will be prevented.

@re2max @chris_komatsu That really won't matter much especially in today's day and age, where such troop buildups are highly noticeable, as we saw in 2021 and 2022 with Ukraine.

@dirtydeeds100 @chris_komatsu It is still ultimately a call of an American serviceman to whack a Russian serviceman. Fundamentally, how is that not direct involvement? A conscious choice has to be made.

@re2max @chris_komatsu No, because thats more about what restrictions we have on what ukraine can be targeting, we aren't the ones manning the systems.

@dirtydeeds100 @chris_komatsu Then why does the mineral deal's preamble is framed such as that America invested in Ukraine and now expects to get the monetary equivalent of that aid back?

@re2max @chris_komatsu No, they don't for the most part

@dirtydeeds100 @chris_komatsu Fundamentally, Ukraine received X and now the US want that X back, with a percentage. Sounds like a loan. That the document does not call it that way is not such a big deal.

@re2max @chris_komatsu What you highlighted changes nothing about what I said?

@dirtydeeds100 @chris_komatsu To your second point - I am arguing that NATO will actually lag behind because of the aforementioned psychological self-penalty.

@re2max @chris_komatsu Thats not what I said, you completely twisted around what I said. I said it would be expensive for us, not russia although that cost certainly would apply to them as well but the point is we're not going to do that unless russia starts making that significant movement first.

@dirtydeeds100 @chris_komatsu Ok, fine. What about a US officer signing off on an ATACMS or HIMARS strike request? Not pressing the buttons, of course, but he is still part of the killchain.

@re2max @chris_komatsu Unless that role involves that soldier actually engaging in combat with Russian forces, no and we're very careful to avoid such a thing.

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@dirtydeeds100 @chris_komatsu Ukraine has to pay back either way.

@re2max @chris_komatsu But it wasn't irrelevant when we did do that and it isnt irrelevant when people cry that we stopped doing that.

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@re2max @chris_komatsu Government military spending isn't that big a part of the economy.

@TwoThousand_17 @BenJohnsonary @mr_scientism No, it has not. KAMAZ and Avtovaz are bleeding money, Avisma moved a part of the workforce to a 4-day week, RZhD is moving less stuff than it used to, Yantar is a bankrupt, Sukhoi Superjet is a failure etc.

@BenJohnsonary @mr_scientism Nonsense. Russia has completely reindustrialuzed under four years of war economy. And absolutely no one can compare to China . When you put both together, the west wouldn’t stand a chance.

We’re in WW3 but it‘s just very slow because everyone deindustrialized.

@dirtydeeds100 @chris_komatsu It is a repayment mechanism both in the ink and the spirit. That the US will be investing money too is nothing but a quite reasonable understanding that a bankrupt will not pay his debt if he is a bankrupt. Thus, Ukraine needs to be making money somehow.

@re2max @chris_komatsu The minerals deal is not an actual loan repayment, its just treated as a replacement of that even though it's really just like any other investment deal that would benefit both countries in the long run.

@dirtydeeds100 @chris_komatsu That NATO will be significantly ramping up the amount of forces on the eastern flank of the alliance because Russians are roaming there and that it will be terribly expensive for Russia to station more troops like that for a prolonged period of time.

@re2max @chris_komatsu And what point is that?

@dirtydeeds100 @chris_komatsu "Fighting" is a very broad term. If a US officer died to a Kh-101 that happened to hit a hotel he was in, while on an official (but covert) mission to help Ukraine defend against Russia, does that meet tour definition? A US serviceman returned home in a casket after all.

@re2max @chris_komatsu Our military fighting against russia??

@dirtydeeds100 @chris_komatsu Because merchandize moved from location A, US, to location B, Ukraine. But that is now irrelevant because of the current US policy.

@re2max @chris_komatsu Much of it was

@dirtydeeds100 @chris_komatsu And 30% of the budget for 2026 (15% in 2022). Natsec and law enforcement will take up extra 9%. State debt is 50% larger than in 2024. Totally not a war mode.

@re2max @chris_komatsu Russia only spends like 7% of its gdp on the military, the russian economy is increasingly propped up by that spending but only partially geared towards it.