Originally Posted by
Suppressed Poet
I like to think of myself as a libertarian with conservative values as I don’t fit neatly into the box of politicaly conservative, especially on social issues, but to respond…
I was ok with the first 20-50 billion in aid to Ukraine and will stand by that. Our strategy initially was to make it difficult & costly for the Russians to achieve their objective, prevent Russia from steamrolling ALL of Ukraine, and make them think twice about any other aggressive expansion ideas especially with our NATO allies. In some sense we achieved that. My support for aiding Ukraine is not unlimited. If Europe wants to give more, they can. A big problem we have is there is no clear US strategic objective with Ukraine that I can ascertain. A peace should be negotiated as we’re in a prolonged stalemate. Ukraine doesn’t have the numbers to win, no matter how much military aid they receive. I do not support direct military intervention, which is the only hope for Ukraine to “win” this war.