The Trump administration has reportedly paused all military aid to Ukraine.
The decision, reported by Bloomberg News, comes after a meeting between Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday descended into chaos, the latest in a larger fraying of the U.S.-Ukraine alliance.
The president is reportedly reviewing whether Zelensky is willing to engage in good-faith efforts at making peace with Russia, a Defense Department official told the outlet.
Easy. People may support the idea of resisting Russia, but don’t want to fight themselves.
Draft dodging wasn’t unique to the Vietnam War in the US, it also happened during WW2. It turns out people don’t like dying.
This is true for a lot of things. People can be in favor of the death penalty as long as someone else carries it out.
Well yeah, Ukraine doesn’t have money.
The numbers make some amount of sense. It was 70%+ at the start of the war, and now it’s barely above 50%. Most dictators give themselves a wider safety margin (look at election numbers in Russia or Venezuela).
So until I get better numbers, that’s the best I have. And suicide bombings rarely indicate the majority opinion.
The US is famous for regime change, and Russia is basically doing that now in Syria (and losing), what are you talking about?
No side is interested in it ending without achieving their goals. Everyone seems to want to play with Russian and Ukrainian lives, and it’s disgusting.
But what’s even more disgusting to me is a foreign power coming in and taking advantage. The US wants Ukraine to capitulate so it can plunder its natural resources, so all those Ukrainian lives would’ve been lost for nothing.
If western powers want to help, they should send troops. Failing that, they shouldn’t be at the negotiating table. Maybe peacekeepers step in to enforce a ceasefire so an election can happen, but that should be it.