West must aid Ukraine in ‘war of attrition’
with Russia, NATO chief says
Posted By: Ribicon, 6/3/2022 5:16:37 PM
The fight in Ukraine has become “a war of attrition” and Western aid for Kyiv against Russia is more vital than ever, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday, offering a grim assessment of the bloody conflict as it nears the 100-day mark but also expressing deep solidarity with the embattled government in Kyiv. Speaking to reporters at the White House after meeting with President Biden, the NATO chief outlined a broad strategy for the transatlantic military alliance for the weeks and months to come. It’s focused primarily on ramping up arms shipments and other assistance to Ukraine to help repel Russia‘s major offensive in the eastern Donbas region
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of “2000 Mules” 18 replies
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A proper nationalist would have withdrawn the USA from NATO and the UN. One uses US taxpayer money to underwrite defense of Europe nations against their own stupidity and allows them to maximize their own social spending while Americans tighten their belts, and the other is dedicated to the spread of global Marxism, again to the direct detriment of the USA. And as far as NATO goes, imagine the pain of their dandy European leaders having to sit on the sidelines a thousand miles away and not take a greater cut of the profits and glories of a wider war being fought by other people's children, using American technology and money to do so.