I've lost more money in the market than I made at my job this year. Maybe I'll lose it all. So what?
God, spare me the whining. "Oooh, look at the high gas prices!" Russia is the sworn enemy of the United States and the enemy our allies. It's imperative that they be defeated by Ukraine. That will require sacrifice. Tighten your damn belt, stand up straight, and act like a US citizen-- if you are one.
The Russia-supporting posts on this thread are a disgrace to our country. You should be embarrassed to run your mouth like that-- in any forum, or in any public place. It's shameful that our friends from other countries have to listen to such hand-wringing spinelessness.
Imperatives ought to really be imperatives rather than wishes. And if they decidedly ARE imperatives, then they need to be tended to.
Here's the problem. Ukraine has used up and lost weapons and munitions faster than they can be replaced by the whole western world. What they call for is much more than today's production capacity of, say 2000 of a certain missile annually. 500 gone "like that". Russia on the other hand, has been using them like drinking straws they have so many and such capability.
The EU and NATO has been effectively demilitarized in just a very few months, by Russia.
To do military supply build-up you need national industrial resources. They have been stripped.
Poopy pants has been stirring up conflict with China, which has a huge industrial base already primed and working, while the west has systematically been de-industrializing on purpose to present a false appearance of environmental care to appease a Green fantasy.
Your military's imperative was being Rainbow.
Obama and now Biden, Trudeau,UK, and EU drove half the world into China's embrace.
Now banking. Theft of accounts. Freezing of accounts. Manipulation to hurt Russia or to stop legal protest has backfired and the damage is not even seen yet..
We cannot ramp up much. We closed mining, pipelines, factories, steel mills.
Your imperative was being Green. Now live it.
