Ds want the war. It makes their donors happy (weapons & "green energy" lobby), distracts from the COVID fiasco, and gives the President a rally-around-the-flag boost. Propaganda -- their favorite tool -- is also considered acceptable during war time.
Ds want the war. It makes their donors happy (weapons & "green energy" lobby), distracts from the COVID fiasco, and gives the President a rally-around-the-flag boost. Propaganda -- their favorite tool -- is also considered acceptable during war time.
YouтАЩre giving them way too much credit. Never assume malevolence where incompetence will do. ItтАЩs also true that support for the war is not nearly as strong to get a rally around the flag effect. The Afghanistan and Iraq wars involved actual soldiers from America which created the rally around the flag. WhatтАЩs happening in Ukraine doesnтАЩt have that effect thus thereтАЩs nothing in it for them politically. Yes, it has some benefit to arms manufacturers who give financially to their campaigns but as weтАЩve seen in the past few elections, money spent doesnтАЩt always translate into the most votes.
"ItтАЩs also true that support for the war is not nearly as strong to get a rally around the flag effect." - Yes, that's the incompetence part. More propaganda is needed, so expect more stories of Russian atrocities and escalation.
Again, people will not be as concerned about that because it's not happening to Americans. Perhaps if it does, they will be more concerned and be willing to support it but until then we're likely to see people generally not focus on it.
If we had experienced rationing, sacrifice, and hardship in the wars after WWII, as we did during that war, we would not have been so easily led into these conflicts...Not Vietnam, or any of the others.
LBJ paid for Vietnam with the stolen Social Security surplus, starting in the 1968 Unified Budget. That theft was never rescinded by ANY ADMINISTRATION, R or D, or any Congress. They have used it to offset gross deficit spending ever since.
The thieves will spend every penny of our grandchildren's future earning, our surpluses, everything, because they are thieves and liars who all.protect each others butts while impoverishing their citizens.
Ds want the war. It makes their donors happy (weapons & "green energy" lobby), distracts from the COVID fiasco, and gives the President a rally-around-the-flag boost. Propaganda -- their favorite tool -- is also considered acceptable during war time.
Keep telling yourself it's just the D's. Neocon tradition also requires useful idiots.
There was no new war under the previous R. Rs are moving away from neocons and attacking them as RINOs.
YouтАЩre giving them way too much credit. Never assume malevolence where incompetence will do. ItтАЩs also true that support for the war is not nearly as strong to get a rally around the flag effect. The Afghanistan and Iraq wars involved actual soldiers from America which created the rally around the flag. WhatтАЩs happening in Ukraine doesnтАЩt have that effect thus thereтАЩs nothing in it for them politically. Yes, it has some benefit to arms manufacturers who give financially to their campaigns but as weтАЩve seen in the past few elections, money spent doesnтАЩt always translate into the most votes.
"ItтАЩs also true that support for the war is not nearly as strong to get a rally around the flag effect." - Yes, that's the incompetence part. More propaganda is needed, so expect more stories of Russian atrocities and escalation.
Again, people will not be as concerned about that because it's not happening to Americans. Perhaps if it does, they will be more concerned and be willing to support it but until then we're likely to see people generally not focus on it.
If we had experienced rationing, sacrifice, and hardship in the wars after WWII, as we did during that war, we would not have been so easily led into these conflicts...Not Vietnam, or any of the others.
LBJ paid for Vietnam with the stolen Social Security surplus, starting in the 1968 Unified Budget. That theft was never rescinded by ANY ADMINISTRATION, R or D, or any Congress. They have used it to offset gross deficit spending ever since.
The thieves will spend every penny of our grandchildren's future earning, our surpluses, everything, because they are thieves and liars who all.protect each others butts while impoverishing their citizens.
It's draw and quarter time.