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Better to do it now than to wait for another fascist loser to invade another free country and wreck the global economy
Military industrial complex is firing on all cylinders. I'm all for the aid to these countries just wish our government did more for the everyday person on top of this.
Last time us everyday people got something from the government, we were blamed for the resulting inflation, which had nothing to do with it, but it makes a good sound bite...
Because the everyday person is an idiot.
Obama expended all his political capital on getting a watered down healthcare expansion passed and republicans took Congress for almost a decade because of it.
Biden starts cleaning up the absolute mess that Trump left and starts taking care of people to alleviate effects of the pandemic, and republicans take the House preventing pretty much anything else from being done.
As soon as any minor good starts being done people scream about taxes and elect republicans.
The White House said Friday the package would include defense, education and training for the Taiwanese. Washington will send man-portable air defense systems, or MANPADS, intelligence and surveillance capabilities, firearms and missiles, according to two U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.
This is a good thing. We CANNOT let China take Taiwan. They provide a huge majority of our semiconductors and computer chips. If that were to go down, we'd be absolutely in a bad place. The world would be in a bad place.
The US won't, not until it has enough domestic chip production capacity. It would be an outright war, there would be troops sent, there would not be this game of military aid.
Ukraine is not critical to the US interest, it's important but not critical, Taiwan at the current time would cross a line.
The day either China or the US gets enough chip manufacturing capacity to cover its own national security needs, it’ll be in their best interest to start a war that destroys Taiwan. They’re on borrowed time.
On the plus side, no more fucking infotainment bullshit in our cars. Might be worth it.
I wish the US could announce a $345 million aid package for its own citizens
This is a rounding error in etitlement or healthcare apending.
That’s like a whole dollar per person.
Black Rock and Vanguard are very happy to hear that.
It's something we should all be happy about if we value peace and stability. If this aid package (and others moving forward) will help to deter an aggressive authoritarian power from pursuing their expansionist goals in the region, it's money well spent. The cost of war is much higher and lives, unlike dollars, don't come back.
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