@348f4b7b Max Boot in WaPo has some stark numbers: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/02/ukraine-aid-great-investment/

At the cost of 0.65% of the total US military budget and 0 (zero) US troops on the ground, #Ukraine severely crippled Russia's ability to wage war – Russia's, America's strongest adversary's for over half a century.

Furthermore, that same 0.65% is also holding China back from invading Taiwan.

For comparison, U.S. spent $8 trillion on Afghanistan and Iraq, where 7,000 Americans were killed and 50,000 were wounded. 

 @872ab8e1 Musk's takeover of Twitter is a part of a much broader coordinated campaign to obliterate humanity's defences against disinformation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/23/online-misinformation-jim-jordan/

Journalists in the US who fail to acknowledge that and keep up the both-siding "neutrality" theater don't appreciate where this road goes. In countries not that much further down this road journalists get jailed and killed for doing their jobs. 

 @872ab8e1 A #GamerGater and, as these things go, Russia Today contributor from Malaysya gave Phony Stark the idea that has severely crippled #Ukraine's ability to fight back against the Russian invasion.

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