Originally Posted by STRSWilson
$80 billion to destroy the Russian military, destabilize the country, run Putin into the ground or out of office, rid the country of a batch of cold war generals is not a bad price to pay. As I stated, we got to play war with our new equipment and burn through a bunch of old crap.

We pissed $2.2 trillion in Afghanistan, lost 2,456 American lives there, and achieved exactly [bleep]. So $80 billion to see Vlad bleed is a bargain.
How's that? What do we gain? Would it have made more sense to have Russia as an ally?


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