As an American, I too am sometimes frustrated with our lack of long term commitment to certain foreign policy postures. That said, I don’t think that’s representative of the American public as a whole. Of course, there are many people easily persuaded with sensationalist headlines that never read further, much less think critically about it, but there are also many Americans that do consider these issues thoughtfully and have deep convictions on what America should be to and for the world. I, for one, am terrified with the growing instability in the world as certain elements push for our withdrawal from the world stage.

As a Canadian I think ur a a mindless retard who obviously is completely oblivious to wat is actually going on

It's geography and the tyranny of distance, the illusion of separation.

- unless the US discovers 'respawn', the only extraordinary item is the complete loss of manpower ?

Uncle Satan?

​@@bl4ckb3ll tell that to the mother of three who's sons died defending Ukraine. Satan lies, cheats, and takes. America gave, with no strings attached, 60 billion to Ukraine. Russia demands everything and gives nothing. What does Russia promise a Ukranian? Oblivion.

Auntie Uma 🤑😉

Agreed, from another UK Brummie in exile ❤️🇷🇴

Ukraine is losing. Stop the war.

@@devilishdeedtrolls are losing. Stop Russia

@@devilishdeed Indeed, tell the vile little dictator to pull his troops out. That would stop it immediately.

I would prefer that it was announced in advance. In May will send this, in June that. If the war continues past July we'll allow western weapons hitting airfields in Russian, in August all military facilities, in October all military factories and fuel depots, November is for infrastructure and in December all Russian financial assets are forfeit. Next January we'll tax imports from any business or country doing business with Russia to provide support for Ukraine...

And that it stayed secret.. or at least out of any glaring light. (Not referring to U:TL.)

LMAO. This is how the US-border-Ukraine "compromise" should go: In exchange for aid to Ukraine (which I favor), Biden agrees to enforce immigration laws, rather than rigging the system to basically permit limitless numbers of illegals. Of course, this would require some enforcement mechanism on Biden, so I don't know how that would work. Lankford's proposed agreement with Biden did nothing to actually force Biden to do his job and enforce immigration law.

Calm down. It's over. It's time to negotiate and at least save some furniture.

Western leaders are clearly struggling to accept such an obvious reality.

I'm picturing the "Knights that say 'ni' " scene from Holy Grail, except instead of "ni", it's Putin saying "nuclear" - if we send weapons, Putin shall say "nuclear" three times!

@clancyjames585 further escalation is in nobody's interest

​@yuglesstube Russia will fare worse in a nuclear exchange than the West.

- "any reasonable person" is an unreasonable proposition ?

Nah that amnesty bill back in February would not secure our border, the only reason it was created was to gaslight Republicans and make it look like they're using it for politics and make them look bad. House Republicans came through with a border bill last September and the Dems shot it down, it was called HR-2. The Dems are absolute hypocrites and gaslighters.

@@sebastianforbes1: Yes..Normies or reasonable people are considered fanatics, and fanatics are considered reasonable.

Yep, that has become more and more apparent and seems to be accelerating.

Indeed, it is! That anyone in media, or politics, pretends that Biden is making any decisions indicates that they are, either, lying, or are suffering from the same mental deterioration as Biden is.

why ?

@@sebastianforbes1 Too many of Trumps business associates say he is a bad payer

@@RenegadeSound Maybe he is. Neither of us know. But we can agree that Trump does know about enforcing agreements.

Why??

@@RenegadeSound Too many LE investigations have actual evidence SloeJoe is FAR FAR worse. As in filthy corrupt but that is old news.

When it comes to the US, probably. When it comes to Europe, I'd argue it's cowardice.

Ukraine was a democracy? Hmm.

- Dom, the military expert, should do a comparison of civilian/military deaths between the Americans prosecuting the Iraq war, and the Russians prosecuting the Ukraine war ?

@@sebastianforbes1 Exactly - and this is the tragedy, because to so many neutral nations, they look at this and say it's exactly the same. But it shouldn't stop us from doing the right thing now - it *should* have stopped us from doing the wrong thing previously

Better than that, let’s look into who owns the media. I know 90% of the worlds media is owned by 4 people. All have a dual passport with 🇮🇱

Jonah is just waffling. Very dull.

Jonah Goldberg. Publisher of "Th Dispatch", great podcasts too.

My relatives in Kherson, Ukraine asked me why the Red Cross never showed up when they were flooded. It would seem the Red Cross is not interested.

Their not and they do. At least their not being thrown out of helicopters or imrisioned in Abu Graidb prison...go check the photo's

Is there evidence of torture of Ukrainian prisoners? No? Then keep quiet and don't be ashamed, Russia treats prisoners extremely humanely, better than Ukrainians treat "their own" ones. Not to mention the torture of Russian prisoners, which has been proven repeatedly.

- Why doesn't anyone ever ask why the ICC Chief Investigator hasn't released his report on Bucha ?

@@samsungtap4183 - shh... don't mention Guantanamo 😂

Whooosh

3 guesses. some countries make commitments, some countries do stuff.

True.

Hardly Russia's fault if Ukraine is genociding itself on behalf of Anglo-American led Nato and it's failed attempt to remove Russia from what is historically Russian.

This might encourage Russia to supply hypersonic nuclear Zircon to Iran or N.Korea.

​@@jhngfdsdfgkjnbvNah, those hypersonics will fly directly to Poland and Romania.

@@ConnorJane Pretty damned unlikely Russia will start a war with NATO when it can't beat a country with 1/3 Russia's population and 1/9 Russia's GDP. NATO has about 7 times Russia's population and 35 times its GDP.

30 billion goes to replace US stock and some of the pays for unofficial weapons already supplied. As usual no details on what weapons and how many

I am, Biden botched the withdrawal which led to needless deaths and an overwhelming victory for the Taliban. He had advisers telling him NOT to go through with the withdrawal plan and instead of revising it or scratching it altogether he decided to roll with it.

To say that Germany's relationship with Russia is "complicated" is a massive understatement. After what Germany did to the USSR in the 1940's, it's perfectly understandable why many Germans are very against being part of attacking Russia again. Those missiles are purely offensive.

​​@@badwolftx2139 Imagine if Great Britain followed that logicn (we don't want to be seen as instigating/escalating) in WW2 and had isolationist viewpoint, instead GB grew balls and went all-in to protect Europe.

@@ChuckAmadi The UK had 43.8 million in 1939. 3.5 million men and women had served in the British Army from 1939-1945. 382,700 died in WW2. The Soviet Union had a population of 170.5 million 16,365,000 million men and women had served in the Soviet Army from 1940-1945 9,750,000 died in WW2. PS: Soviet Union was an ally of the UK

@@ChuckAmadi That makes no sense. The horror that Germany inflicted on the USSR is almost beyond comprehension.

After the Germans killed 27 millions Russians, Germany has a HUGE number of reasons not to send Taurus.

I disagree- the USA has not been generous. It has actually been rather niggardly in terms of its support- e.g. only last month did we send long range ATACMS, even though we guaranteed their security when they gave up their nukes. Still no F-16s. Moreover, while this fight is in Europe, it has enormous worldwide implications.

It's an Anglo-American fight in alliance with former Eastern bloc countries like Poland and Romania. It began with George W Bush at the start of the 21st century withdrawing from the anti-ballistic missile treaty, pursuing and funding missile defence shield systems, declaring a belligerent policy to expand NATO eastward, before launching the invasion of Iraq on false evidence - the regime change operation in Libya also rode roughshod over International law. In 2008 at the Bucharest NATO summit, despite opposition from Spain, France, Germany and Italy; despite polling in Ukraine showing no appetite among the public for such a move; despite alarm bells sounded by the like of Bill Burns and Fiona Hill, Bush declared that Ukraine would become aligned with NATO ie, the US, militarily. The verdict of several senior Ukrainians involved in the Istanbul 2022 negotiations have said that NATO is the key issue for Russia. Following a ten year investigation, the verdict of a Kiev district court on October 18th, 2023 essentially drew the conclusion that the maidan massacre was a false flag operation by ultranatiinalists. Svoboda and Right-Sector played the leading role in the 2014 violence. Right-Sector took credit for orchestrating the Odessa trade unions building massacre. The ultranatiinalist forces backed by Britain and the US since the 1950s sparked a civil war and Nationalist battalions backed by oligarchs went east to crush dissent committing war crimes documented by Amnesty International.

@@hazelwray4184 Vietnam took the fight out of America and so they have used spending power to deter potential enemies. Which is perfectly sensible and understandable. Britain, France and Germany have to make the stand. Which is as it should be.

@@hazelwray4184 It started when Russia didn't change its history textbooks in the 1990's. They still said the Baltic states joined USSR voluntarily. Which is rubbish, they were conquered and forced, and there's photographic evidence and everything. As soon as it became clear they wouldn't change the textbooks, we realized they wouldn't change their ways and we need to join NATO.

Giving arms -- both US made and otherwise -- costs US taxpayers. It is real money and means real resources don't go to other US interests. (I support aid to Ukraine, but it isn't "free" at all.)