Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   A Russian Supporter Date:   3/16/2023 1:02:48 PM

It is a territorial dispute.  Ukraine was part of Russia for a long time.  When the Soviet Union broke up, ti declared it's indepencence.  We didn't make a big deal when Russia moved into Crimea almost 10 years ago.  That's because Crimea really wanted to be part of Russia - the language, church, even many of the people were Russian.  Ukraine has been a struggling democracy for years and I use the term democracy loosely, because the truth is, it is a very corrupt country.  We have been providng defensive weapons to Ukaine for a decade now.  Training their soldiers - all in the name of promoting democracy.  I don't think most of us thought too much about Ukraine, before it came to light that Trump was holding back their security assistance to put pressure on Zelensky to get dirt on Biden about his business dealings.  

Other than his business interests, I have no real idea why Biden took it in his head to start sending billions to Ukraine when the Russians attacked.  You rememer Zelensky was sure they wouldn't and they disregarded our intelligence.  I guess Biden had on his white hat and dreamed of "saving a democracy".  They are not NATO, although they have wanted to join for some time.  So now Biden has got us involved in this war, but I question if Americans are aware that he is borrowing money to fund it.  And are Americans so interested in seeing Ukraine win, that they are willing to increase the national debt.  I don't think most people are too happy to be under the threat of nuclear attack from Russia, because of Ukraine.  I'm not sure we are actually being told the truth about Ukraine - youi notice that the media is not giving it much play these days.  

So because Di Santis called it a territorial dispute, I'm not sure that makes him a Putin supporter.  He's right about what needs to be done here at home and it doesn't take a genius to see that we could be setting ourselves up for another Afghanistan.  Even if Ukraines manage to chase the Russians out, do you really think that they will stay out, unless we put a base or troops in there?  We sure can't keep sending them billions.