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Are we really doing this?

According to Business Insider, 

The US is sending $1 billion every year to Russia's nuclear program, despite pledging to cripple its economy with sanctions

 https://www.businessinsider.com/us-1-billion-russia-nuclear-agency-sanctions-ukraine-zaporizhzhia-2023-6

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Anonymous said…


What is the issue? You must not have been paying attention in your history class. World politics is like chess board, in which we move pieces to advance a cause. Sometimes the Taliban is our friends sometimes they are our enemy. Sometimes we do business with our enemies when there is mutual benefit just the way it has always been. You do know that we really do not care about Ukraine we care about defeating Russia and getting their stuff.
Anonymous said…
we really do not care about Ukraine we care about defeating Russia and getting their stuff.

6/16/2023 5:16 AM

You are wrong, Russia doesn't have any "stuff" the US needs. They are a poor, third-world country except for the nukes. Kinda like Pakistan.
Anonymous said…
You are wrong, Russia doesn't have any "stuff" the US needs. They are a poor, third-world country except for the nukes. Kinda like Pakistan.

6/18/2023 5:28 PM

Hmm, this is beyond wrong for so many reasons it is funny. I would just say go look at a globe, look hard and think hard... the rest will be obvious. If that does not work come back to the blog, or simply accept that you are not the kind of person who can really have any understating of the world.
Anonymous said…
6/19/2023 2:14 PM

So no real argument, just disparagement. Typical. What are you, 12 years old? Your "understanding of the world" is awesome.
Anonymous said…
Yup. We buy enriched uranium from the Russians because the U.S. and its politicians are a bunch of NIMBYs.
Anonymous said…
Fun fact: the US is sending tens of billions worth of equipment to Ukraine just so that Russia can blow it up.

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