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Zelensky dismisses compromise with Putin, pointing to Prigozhin’s death (www.cnn.com)

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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin – the Russian mercenary leader whose plane crashed weeks after he led a mutiny against Moscow’s military leadership – shows what happens when people make deals with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

As Ukraine’s counteroffensive moves into a fourth month, with only modest gains to show so far, Zelensky told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria he rejected suggestions it was time to negotiate peace with the Kremlin.

“When you want to have a compromise or a dialogue with somebody, you cannot do it with a liar,” Volodymyr Zelensky said.

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[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Remind me again what did RAND Corp outline about US agenda against Russia in 2019 documents, or US ex-VP Dick Cheney tell us what NATO’s vision about Russia is (spoiler: balkanisation),

Dunno, but not really necessary to know about it when the statement being challenged is "not wanting Ukraine invaded by Russia".

how Biden, after pumping $40B into Ukraine, is asking for $60B more from GOP to use Ukraine as a condom to try fuck with Russia till the “last Ukrainian”, causing deaths of both Ukrainians and Russians

Don't really care about US but isn't your yearly military spending like 1Trillion? I looked it up and in 2016 the budget was $639.86B, while in 2023 seems to be $797.B, Accounting for inflation from 2016 to 2023 (Core inflation averaged 3.09% per year between 2016 and 2023 (vs all-CPI inflation of 3.52%), for an inflation total of 23.74%.) $639.86B then is $791,76B now, so accouting for inflation This year's military budget is not higher than the one in 2016. I picked that year because as an outsider I don't think the US was doing anything special by then, no covid no Ukraining war, nothing. So basically the US is not spending more than usual for the military, and although I think that's too much in general, blaming the war maybe isn't the best approach.

It took me 5 mins to find these numbers and do the math.

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

USA can print as much dollar as they like. Inflation does not matter as much as intent does. The problem is not money.

All of that I mentioned is necessary to know why Russia had to step in, and not what you claim about inflation. If you think justifying $150B raise in annual military budget over 6 years makes any sense, I do not think we have much to talk about.