Ukraine is far from a forever war, unless you’re proposing that Russia will keep invading them forever. They’re literally defending against a foreign enemy, you know, that thing that all soldiers swear to do. It is beneficial to Ukraine and to the United States for Ukraine to stand. If Russia expands into Ukraine then we’re back in a pre-WWII situation where a foreign enemy power is expanding across Europe against the will of every other country on the planet, except maybe China and NK.
No, what he is saying is we should solve our own problems before paying for others wars. 100 billion could do a lot of good here.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I don’t mind sending aid to Ukraine. I was only pointing out what Rob said.
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 2 months ago
I get your approach on this but he proposes the absolute worst solution here.
Taking aid from Ukraine and shoveling that money into our dysfunction profit-focused healthcare system is not going to do anything more than pad the pockets of healthcare corporations. The fact that he thinks we can just buy more healthcare instead of help Ukraine is so ridiculously dumb I can’t believe anyone would agree with him on that.
If you’re fiscally conservative you should be more focused on how to not need to spend more money in the first place. Within healthcare that’s going to require a focus off of profit and onto actually providing healthcare to citizens without the excessive profit margins of today.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Umm. It’s weird you think paying for poor medical care is dumb.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Right on.
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 2 months ago
I agree with that vague statement but that’s not what Rob is saying. He’s saying rather than find Ukraine we should heal our people. I agree about healing our people, but we can do it both by amending healthcare laws to not run the industry for profit.
No qualitative service (such as healthcare, housing, education, etc.) should be run with a quantitative strategy, because the focus turns from providing an effective service to being profitable. The correct answer is to end privatized healthcare and pay it out of our taxes like these other nations Rob alludes to in the article.