The European Parliament on April 11 refused discharge of the EU Council's budget until European leaders decide to support Ukraine with additional Patriot air defense systems, MEP Guy Verhofstadt said.
      • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        155·
        3 months ago

        Johnson hasn’t moved funding for Ukraine to the floor in six weeks. He’s not doing it because Trump told him not to. Trump would rather help his friend Putin.

        Meanwhile, Russia is taking out infrastructure with a massive missle garage last night.

        • n2burns@lemmy.caEnglish
          78·
          3 months ago

          Everything you said there is true, but also isn’t an answer to the question asked.

          • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            84·
            3 months ago

            I think it does.

            Ukraine will be outgunned by Russia 10 to 1 in weeks without US help. That is determined by an ex president? Whole lot of people will die due to a feckless narcissist, and the EU is not sitting around watching their ally get destroyed as the US is. Putin will next invade NATO countries and US sons and daughters will pay the price.

          • takeda@lemmy.worldEnglish
            74·
            3 months ago

            It is. It is related to support of Ukraine.

            The US halted support to Ukraine, because the House of Representatives is now led by Mike Johnson, and is blocking any bills.

            Trump asked him to do it and Johnson is blocking it. Trump isn’t even holding any position in the government, he is right now an ordinary citizen (with unordinary charges) and is affecting US foreign policy.

            Now Johnson is taking time off and is going to Mar-a-Lago to see him. We have our government infiltrated by Russian agents.

      • Buelldozer@lemmy.todayEnglish
        14·
        3 months ago

        How are these events related?

        Because there’s some kind of Internet law that all discussions must be about the United States. This law also has addendums requiring discussion of why / how the United States sucks, why / how Republicans suck, and why / how every problem in the world is a combination of those two things.

        Speaking as an American the MAGA-publicans DO suck and the situation they’ve created in Ukraine is fucking infuriating but every God Damned President of the United States has been warning the EU members nations for thirty fucking years that they were under-spending and under-prepared for this eventuality. Even Russia swiping Crimea in 2014 only produced a chorus of yawns from every EU nation aside from the U.K.

        So now the EU member nations simply don’t have the fucking equipment, or the MIC to build more, to send to Ukraine without shorting their own pitiably thin national stockpiles. This is why none of them want to send more Patriot batteries or anything else of consequence.

        Since they don’t have it, because they didn’t want to spend money on it, they want the US to do it. Which we should but not because the EU is asking but because Ukraine deserves our help in this fight.

        The United States looked away for just four god damned years during the Trump Administration (fuck that guy) and the Euros suddenly need Uncle Sam to fix a mess for them. JFC I can’t decide whose so called leadership I despise more, ours or theirs.

  • sepulcher@lemmy.caEnglish
    219·
    3 months ago

    It’s a sunk cost at this point, guys.

    Ukraine is broken and has no morale.