Escef, on 23 July 2022 - 06:21 PM, said:
The war is disrupting food supplies on three continents, Ukraine is a major grain exporter. It's not Ukraine itself that is the major concern, it's all the areas that are being affected; it's cascading into areas where the nation has major interests. As for US involvement, we're providing arms, intel support, money, and sanctioning Russia. No boots on the ground, no gear with our flag or IFF broadcasting from it. And Putin has painted himself into a corner on this one, the Russian people have been told fish stories, and if Putin doesn't deliver he looks weak. Russians are damned paranoid about perceived weakness, their political and social climate is not friendly to non-hierarchical structures. And the Ukrainians are fighting tooth and nail, Russian losses have been obscenely high; not good for a war where you told your people that you'd roll over the opposition and be welcomed.
Anyway, this forum isn't exactly the right place for politics. The topic has already been covered about as well as the venue requires. For those that wish more info, there's always Google. I'd suggest sticking to respected news sources, places like the BBC or NPR. I've found the BBC is useful for getting a non-American perspective, and NPR tends to dig deeper and beat around the bush less than major networks (CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, etc.). I've heard that Al-Jazeera is also good for getting non-American perspectives as well, but I'll admit to not following them in any significant way, so I can't particularly vouch for them.
that post was more about the greed of elected officials than the war in general. i dont have enough information about who is in the right or the wrong in the ukraine conflict. only the official party line of those currently in power and the media (which they control). but define redistribution of wealth: spend tax dollars on the military industrial complex to manufacture weapons, and on ukraine itself (there is also money in non-military support, shipping contracts, private security for the shippers, etc). meanwhile the stock in the military industrial complex, owned by most of congress (both sides) and others in positions of wealth and power, is getting fat. usa does not have a grain shortage (mismanagement is the problem), nor an oil shortage for that matter. so there is no real reason to get involved. even then these people would take us into this war if there wasn't a big nuclear threat in doing so (getting nuked is bad for business), just to turn a buck.