• Beaver [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    When talking about this with my lib friends, I suggested that maybe if Ukrainans went back in time to 2022, they might have decided that suing for peace in exchange for land would have been a better outcome than all the death and destruction that was about to come. He immediately retorted that, if we went back in time, that we should have spent a trillion dollars on weapons and marched on Moscow. I expected strong pushback during that conversation but I honestly didn’t expect “we should have had an even more horrific war and given even more money to the military industrial complex”

    • o_d [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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      7 months ago

      Spending any amount of money won’t do them any good unless they’ve figured out a way to convert capital into brand new, full grown adult males to wield these weapons.